Antef Tsoungui (born 30 December 2002) is a Belgian professional

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who plays as a

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for

OH Leuven Oud-Heverlee Leuven (), also called OH Leuven or OHL, is a Belgian football club from the city of Leuven. It was created in 2002 from the merger of three clubs, '' F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee'', whose registration number it inherited, ''D ...

on loan from Dutch club

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Early life

Tsoungui was born in

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to a Cameroonian father and Italian mother. Aged five, he migrated to

Crawley Crawley () is a large town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 106,597 at the time of th ...

with his parents.

Club career

Brighton & Hove Albion

An academy player at Chelsea through to under-14 level, Tsoungui joined the Brighton & Hove Albion Academy in 2018. He made his professional debut for Brighton on 24 August 2021 in a 2–0

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victory against

Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

. On 31 January 2023, Tsoungui joined Challenger Pro League club Lommel on loan for the remainder of the 2022-23 Season. On 24 March, his loan contract with the Belgian club would be terminated after only five appearances, including two in the Challenger Pro League.

Feyenoord

On 12 June 2023, Tsongui signed for

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champions

for an undisclosed fee. Later in the month of his signing, Feyenoord announced that he would spend the 2023–2024 season on loan at

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

side

FC Dordrecht Football Club Dordrecht, or simply FC Dordrecht () is a professional Dutch association football club based in Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. They currently compete in the Eerste Divisie, ...

. On 13 August 2024, Tsoungui joined Belgian Pro League club

on a season-long loan deal.

Career statistics

References

External links

Profile
at the Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. website
Belgium profile
at Belgian FA 2002 births Living people Footballers from Brussels Sportspeople from Crawley Footballers from West Sussex Belgian people of Cameroonian descent Belgian people of Italian descent Black Belgian sportspeople 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Belgian men's footballers Belgium men's youth international footballers Men's association football defenders Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Lommel S.K. players Feyenoord players FC Dordrecht players Oud-Heverlee Leuven players Challenger Pro League players Eerste Divisie players Belgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England Belgian anti-racism activists Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands {{Belgium-footy-defender-stub