Delvin Chanel N'Dinga (born 14 March 1988) is a Congolese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Auxerre
N'Dinga began his career with CNFF then joined
Diables Noirs
Club Sportif Multidisciplinaire Diables Noirs or simply CSMD Diables Noirs is a Congolese football club based in Brazzaville.
The club won its seventh domestic league title in 2009.
History
The Diables Noirs started as an all-star club drawn ...
in 2003. In July 2005, he
Diables Noirs
Club Sportif Multidisciplinaire Diables Noirs or simply CSMD Diables Noirs is a Congolese football club based in Brazzaville.
The club won its seventh domestic league title in 2009.
History
The Diables Noirs started as an all-star club drawn ...
to sign in Europe with French club
Auxerre
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.
In the 2011–12 season, N'Dinga was linked with a move to
Lyon
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as the replacement for
Jérémy Toulalan
Jérémy Toulalan (born 10 September 1983) is a French former professional association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder, but was also utilized as a Defender (association football)#Centre-b ...
, who joined Spanish side
Málaga
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. Auxerre and Lyon were in the process of negotiating a transfer for Ndinga for €7 million, with Ndinga to sign a four-year contract with Lyon. N'Dinga said a move to Lyon interested him: "It would be a good challenge for me, the opportunity to pass a course, While there is a chance that I play in this club, I will not hesitate. There is Lyon who has, then yes, it m? Interested!" However, Auxerre club president Gérard Bourgoin refused to sell Ndinga, having rejected several offers from Lyon. The negotiations continued throughout the summer transfer window until N'Dinga signed a contract extension set to keep him at Auxerre until 2015. Shortly after, N'Dinga expressed sadness of not join Lyon, saying, "It takes time, honestly thought I leave. It hurt me. I try to focus quickly find my level."
Monaco
Following Auxerre's relegation from Ligue 1 after the
2011–12 season, N'Dinga joined
Ligue 2
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side
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
in July 2012 in a €6 million transfer deal.
Olympiacos
Following his two league appearances at Monaco in the
2013–14 season, but on 31 August 2013, N'Dinga left the club to join Greek champions
Olympiacos
Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...
on loan, with an option to make the move permanent next summer with a fee of €3 million. He started a second loan spell with Olympiacos in July 2014. Olympiacos will buy Delvin with a mark of €3.2 million from the Monegasque team. N'Dinga is likely to head back to France over the summer, after spending the last two seasons on loan at Olympiakos from Monaco but according to reports in France he will possibly to return to
League 1 in the summer transfer window. N'Dinga will not renew his contract with
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
and it looks like that
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Saint-Étienne is the t ...
is in pole position to sign him. Apart from Saint-Etienne,
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
,
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
and
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[Lokomotiv Moscow
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москв ...]
on loan for the 2015–16 season, N'Dinga's move from Monaco was made permanent on 11 May 2016.
Sivasspor
On 7 September 2017, N'Dinga signed a two-year contract with Turkish club
Sivasspor
Sivasspor Kulübü, known as Demir Grup Sivasspor due to sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish sports club based in Sivas. The primary department of the club is men's football. Formed in 1967, its football department competes in Süper Lig, as of 201 ...
.
International career
He made his first cap for
Congo national football team
The Congo national football team ( French: '' Équipe de football du Congo'') represents the Republic of the Congo in men's association football and is governed by the Congolese Football Federation. They have never qualified for the World Cup, b ...
at the WCQ match against
Sudan
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on 8 June 2007.
He represented the national team at the
2015 Africa Cup of Nations
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, where his team advanced to the quarterfinals.
Career statistics
Club
International goals
:''Scores and results list Congo's goal tally first.''
Honours
Monaco
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Ligue 2
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:
2012–13
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Olympiacos
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Super League Greece
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:
2013–14,
2014–15
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
:
2014–15
Lokomotiv Moscow
*
Russian Cup:
2016–17
References
External links
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frenchleague.com
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1988 births
Living people
Pointe-Noire
Republic of the Congo footballers
Republic of the Congo international footballers
Republic of the Congo expatriate footballers
Association football midfielders
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
AJ Auxerre players
AS Monaco FC players
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Monaco
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
Olympiacos F.C. players
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Russian Premier League players
Super League Greece players
Sivasspor footballers
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
Republic of the Congo under-20 international footballers