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. He played in the position as
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Career


Early years

Tchouga played his youth football with local club KSA Yaoundé. He was scouted by Swiss team Yverdon-Sport and signed for them during the summer of 1997 joining their youth department. He advanced to their first team a year later under head coach Lucien Favre and achieved promotion with them at the end of the 1998–99 season. Tchouga stayed with YS and was a key-player as the team achieved the championship round of the 1999–2000. One of the most important games was on 2 October 1999 as Yverdon won 2–1 against Basel. The striker scored both goals and with his two goals, the then 20-year-old, made such a lasting impression on FCB coach Christian Gross that Basel signed him for the 2000/01 season.


Basel

Tschouga signed for
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in the summer of 2000. He joined Basel's first team for their 2000–01 season under head coach Christian Gross. After playing in three test games, in which he scored four goals, Tschouga played his domestic league debut for his new team in the home game at the
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on 15 July 2000. He scored his first league goal for his new team after just 12 minutes play and then in the second half went on to score flawless hat-trick, as Basel won 4–1 against
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. After each goal, Tchouga performed an elegant little dance, wiggling his hips and waving and lowering his arms intact. This then became his trademark from then onwards. In the next home game he also scored a hat-trick, as Basel won 7–4 against
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. The team started somewhat irregularly into the season, a number of high scoring games, three victories, three defeats. They then gathered themselves and climbed to the top of the table. However, four defeats in the last five games, through them back to fifth position, at the end of the qualifying stage. Basel joined the
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in the qualifying round, advancing with a 12–1 aggregate win over Folgore from San Marino. Tschouga scored a brace in the first leg, but was substituted out in the return leg, due to an injury. The team then celebrated a 7–6 aggregate victory over Norwegian Brann, Tschouga scored a goal in both legs, to advance to the second round. However, here the team lost their goal scoring qualities and were knocked out 3–1 on aggregate by
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. Tschouga scored the sole Basel goal. Basel were able to play their home games of the championship group in their new stadium, the
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which opened on 15 March 2001 and it was sold out with 33,433 spectators on three occasions. However, Tschouga lost his goal scoring instinct, netted only once in the second half of the season and the team played eight draws in their 14 matches and so ended the championship in fourth position. Basel played in the
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. Tschouga netted during their first game against Iceland's
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, but not once after. Basel advanced to the final but were defeated by
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. During the first half of the 2001–02 league season Tschouga lost his place in the team, he was replaced by
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and new signing Christian Giménez. Tschouga had ten appearances but did not find the target once. He was loaned out to
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, in the second division, for the second half of the season. Following his return, Tschouga was unable to gain a place in their first team and so played in Basel's U-21 team. Here he netted 13 times in 13 appearances. During the winter break of the 2002–03 season he was loaned out to
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but his stay there was short, as the club went bankrupt and were dissolved in April. For the 2003–04 season he was loaned to FC Concordia Basel, who at that time played in the second level. As his contract expired to an end of the season he was released. During his time with the club, Tschouga played a total of 83 games for Basel scoring a total of 35 goals. 47 of these games were in the
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, five in the
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, 11 in the UEFA competitions (UEFA Cup and UIC) and 20 were friendly games. He scored 13 goals in the domestic league, two in the cup, six in the European games and the other 14 were scored during the test games.


Luzern

In the summer of 2004 Tschouga signed for
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under head coach
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, in the second tier, and here he rediscovered his form. In his first season he was the team's second top goal scorer with 17 goals, behind Paulo Vogt who netted 23 times. Thanks to the duo's goals the team reached the final of the
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. Vogt left the club at the end of the season and was replaced by
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and the new duo, who had played together during their time in Basel, linked up well. To the beginning of the 2005–06 Challenge League season, the FCL lost three times in a row. Then Tschouga netted both goals in a 2–2 home draw against
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, which didn't turn the tide, but it did get the first point. FCL were not defeated again that season and they scored in each of the next 31 games. They rose to first place in the table and with 79 points, became division champions and achieved promotion. 45 of the 69 FCL goals were scored by the attacking duo, team captain Tchouga was the Challenge League top scorer with 27 goals, N'Tiamoah netted 18 times. The duo stayed with the club for the 2006–07 league season and were successful in reaching the 2006–07 Swiss Cup final and avoiding relegation.


Later years

He stayed with the club until the end of 2010. However, because towards the end of this time he had been demoted to the reserve team he moved on. He played six months for
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and then moved on to
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. From summer 2012 he played as striker for
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. He ended his professional career and played for
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, FC Giffers-Tentlingen and FC Hochdorf in the lower divisions.


Private life

Tschouga lives in Kriens. He is coach in the youth department of
FC Köniz FC Köniz are a football team from Köniz, Switzerland, is currently playing in the Swiss Promotion League The Promotion League, named the YAPEAL Promotion League for sponsorship reasons, is the third tier of the Swiss football league system. ...
. He is married and the couple have two daughters.


References


Sources

* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage


External links


Profile by FC Luzern fan site JustCantBeatThat.com
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