Jerome Ngom Mbekeli (born 30 September 1998) is a

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

ian footballer who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. 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 ...

for

Sheriff Tiraspol Fotbal Club Sheriff (russian: ФК Шериф Тирасполь), commonly known as Sheriff Tiraspol or simply Sheriff, is a Moldovan professional football club based in Tiraspol, a city located in the unrecognised breakaway state of Transnist ...

in the

Moldovan Super Liga The Moldovan Super Liga is an association football league that is currently the top division of Moldovan football league system. The competition was established in 1992, when the country became independent from the Soviet Union. It was formed in ...

Career

Swope Park Rangers

In January 2019, Mbekeli joined

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...

club

Swope Park Rangers Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as Swope S ...

. After scoring twice against

Bethlehem Steel The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For most of the 20th century, it was one of the world's largest steel producing and shipbuilding companies. At the height of its succe ...

, he was named to the USL Championship Team of the Week.

Sheriff Tiraspol

On 5 July 2023,

announced the singing of Ngom Mbekeli from

Beveren Beveren () is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders which comprises the towns of Beveren, Doel, Haasdonk, Kallo, Kieldrecht, Melsele, Verrebroek and Vrasene. The port of the Waasland (Dutch: ''Waaslandhaven'') is in Beveren, ...

International

Mbekeli was named to

's roster for the

2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an international association football, football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. The 22nd FIFA World Cup is taking place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022 ...

. He was one of the few amateur players at the tournament, making approximately the minimum wage in his home nation of Cameroon.

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Jerome Ngom Mbekeli
at Sporting Kansas City * * 1998 births Living people Footballers from Yaoundé Cameroonian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders APEJES Academy players MFK Vyškov players Sporting Kansas City II players San Diego Loyal SC players S.K. Beveren players FC Sheriff Tiraspol players Cameroon men's A' international footballers Cameroon men's international footballers 2022 African Nations Championship players 2022 FIFA World Cup players USL Championship players Challenger Pro League players Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova {{Cameroon-footy-midfielder-stub