Jean Ambrose (born 27 September 1993) is a professional

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who plays as a defender. Born in

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, he plays for the Haiti national team at international level.

Club career

Ambrose joined

Girondins de Bordeaux Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux (), commonly referred to as Girondins de Bordeaux ( oc, Girondins de Bordèu) or simply Bordeaux, is a French professional football club based in the city of Bordeaux in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The ...

in 2014 from AS Moulins. He made his

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debut on 13 December 2015 against Angers SCO replacing

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after 79 minutes. He joined Sedan of the

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in the summer of 2016 but was shortly released following disciplinary reasons. On 6 December 2016, Ambrose joined

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n club Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa until the end of the 2016–17 season. Ambrose left without permission before the end of the season and the club applied for legal proceedings at

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International career

In March 2017, Ambrose was called up to the 30-man squad by the Haiti national football team's interim coach, Jean-Claude Josaphat. Ambrose made his debut for the senior Haiti national football team in a 3–3 2017 Kirin Challenge Cup tie with

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on 10 October 2017.

References

1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Sens Haitian men's footballers Haiti men's international footballers French men's footballers French sportspeople of Haitian descent Men's association football defenders French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Ligue 1 players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players CS Sedan Ardennes players FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa players Footballers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Haitian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria French expatriate sportspeople in Bhutan Haitian expatriate sportspeople in Bhutan Expatriate men's footballers in Bhutan {{France-footy-defender-1990s-stub