Gabrielle Aboudi Onguéné (born 25 February 1989) is a Cameroonian

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who plays for

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in the Russian Championship and the Cameroon national team.Profile
at soccerway She previously played for Rossiyanka.

Early life

Born in

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, Aboudi Onguéné began playing football with boys in her neighborhood as a child. She was spotted and recruited to play for girls' club, Ngondi Nkam Yabassi. While playing in a tournament for the club, she was spotted by

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and began playing for the team in 2005.

Playing career

Club

Louves Minproff de Yaoundé, 2009–12

Aboudi Onguéné played for Louves Minproff in the top-division Cameroonian league and helped the team win the national championship in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Rossiyanka, 2015–16

Aboudi Onguéné signed with Rossiyanka in Russia's top division league for the 2015 season. Her six goals in ten appearances ranked third in the league and helped the team finish in second place. During the 2016 season, she scored 6 goals in 13 games helping the team finish first in the league with a record.

CSKA Moskva, 2017–

Aboudi Onguéné signed with

ahead of the 2017 season. Her 9 goals in 14 appearances tied for second highest in the league. The team finished in fourth place with a record. During the 2018 season, she scored 3 goals in 13 appearances. Aboudi Onguéné scored her first goal of the 2019 season against Zvezda Perm on May 9 helping the team win 3–1.

International

Aboudi Onguéné has represented Cameroon on the Cameroonian national team since 2008 after being scouted at the age of 15. In 2011, she helped the team win gold at the

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in Mozambique. During the semi-final against

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, she scored the game-winning goal. AboudiOnguene8

Aboudi Onguéné competed at the

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and scored the team's lone goal in the tournament. At the

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in Canada, she scored an equalizer in the team's 2–1 win over

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and was named Player of the Match. She was voted best player at the

2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations The 2016 Women's Africa Cup of Nations was the 12th edition of the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. The tournament was held in Cameroo ...

. , Aboudi Onguéné has been nominated for

African Women's Footballer of the Year African Women Footballer of the Year, an annual award for Africa's best female football player. It is awarded by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in December each year. Nigeria's Asisat Oshoala has won the award a record five times. ...

four consecutive times. At the

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in France, Aboudi Onguéné scored an equalizer against

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during the team's second group stage match.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first.

Honours

;Individual * IFFHS CAF Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020

References

External links

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