Gerard Ambassa Guy (; born 21 September 1978), nicknamed JJ (), is a Cameroonian-born Hong Kong association football coach and former professional player who currently as an amateur plays for Hong Kong Third Division club King Mountain. He played for Happy Valley,

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, Instant-Dict, Hong Kong Rangers,

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and Sun Hei in the past. He is also a football coach currently.

Club career

Gerard first arrived in Hong Kong to play for Rangers. Subsequently, he played for Instant-Dict,

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, Happy Valley AA and in 2009 joined South China AA.

South China

In 2009, he joined

. He scored in the 5:4 away defeat to

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in the quarter finals 1st leg. Then he scored a last minute away goal in the 1:2 semi-final defeat by Kuwait SC in the

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, thus setting up a crucial home game for South China in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Stadium was packed for the second leg match on 21 October 2009 but South China lost 0:1.

TSW Pegasus

He joined

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on loan from South China AA in the summer of 2010. On 23 September 2009, Gerard Ambassa Guy was sent off in a league game after two bookable offenses, but TSW Pegasus won 4:0 over

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. On 1 March 2011, Gerard scored with a header to help TSW Pegasus secure a 2:1 win over Song Lam Nghe An in the

2011 AFC Cup The 2011 AFC Cup was the eighth edition of the AFC Cup, a football competition organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for clubs from "developing countries" in Asia. Allocation of entries per association *2 teams to qualify from each ...

group game away in Vietnam.

Mohun Bagan

On 23 July 2010, the Cameroonian-born Hong Kong footballer arrived in Kolkata for a trial with Indian club Mohun Bagan as an Asian origin player.

Sun Hei SC

Gerard joined Sun Hei for the 2011-12 Hong Kong First Division League season.

Managerial career

On 4 December 2017, Guy took over as manager of

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after Dejan Antonić's departure from the club.

International

Gerard Ambassa Guy became a member of the Hong Kong National Football Team after he had spent more than seven years in Hong Kong and gained Hong Kong citizenship. He took part in the

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semi-finals tournament in Kaoshiung and received the Most Valuable Player award.

Honours

;Happy Valley *

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: 2002–03, 2005–06 * Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2003-04 * Hong Kong FA Cup: 2003–04

Career statistics

Club career

''Updated 30 August 2009''

International career

:''Updated 17 November 2010''

References

External links

Gerard Ambassa Guy
at HKFA
Gerard Ambassa Guy's profile at hvaaclub.com

Gérard Guy Ambassa, Champion de Hong Kong
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