Joseph Cyrille N'Do (born 28 April 1976) is a Cameroonian former professional

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who played as an

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. He made 21 appearances for the Cameroon national team scoring twice.

Club career

Cameroon

An attacking central midfielder, N'Do began his career in 1995 with

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before moving to

Coton Sport FC de Garoua Coton Sport Football Club de Garoua, or simply Coton Sport, is a Cameroonian football club based in Garoua. They play their home games at the Stade Omnisport de Garoua, commonly known as the Roumde Adjia Stadium. The club is chaired by Sadou Fern ...

in 1997. He won the 1998

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league title with Coton Sport before leaving Africa for European football.

Switzerland and France

N'Do's first European club was Swiss side

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. He spent the 1998–99 season with Xamax, with the club finishing sixth. He then joined

Racing Club Strasbourg Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace (commonly known as RC Strasbourg, Racing Straßburg, RCSA, RCS, or simply Strasbourg; Alsatian: ''Füeßbàllmànnschàft Vu Stroßburri'') is a French association football club founded in 1906, based in the c ...

and spent the 1999–2000 and 2000–01 seasons with the club. The club won the 2000–01 Coupe de France but were also relegated to

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that same season. N'Do then moved to Saudi Arabia.

Asia

After a season with Saudi Arabian club Al-Khaleej, N'Do moved to Chinese club

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, based in

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province, finishing sixth out of 14 teams in the division in his only season.

Ireland

N'Do's first Irish club was

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whom he joined in 2003. After the 2003 League of Ireland, he then signed for Dublin rivals Shelbourne in 2004 and made his debut in August against

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. N'Do scored the only goal for the Reds in their home leg against

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in the second round of the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup#second round on 9 July 2006, only for the team go out of the competition 3-1 on aggregate. N'Do picked up a league winner's medal in the 2006 season after helping Shelbourne to their third league title in four years. In November 2006, he was voted PFAI Player of the Year by his fellow professionals for his contribution to Shels' league-winning campaign. and as a result was included in the

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. After completing his contracted period with Shelbourne, N'Do rejoined St Patrick's Athletic, when he signed for

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's team in December 2006. He signed for

Shamrock Rovers Shamrock Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is an Irish association football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club's senior team competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division and it is the most su ...

on loan in July 2008, scoring one goal for the Hoops in a

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performance on 29 August. N'Do signed for

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just before the beginning of the 2009 season and marked his debut for the club with a goal in a 1–0 victory over

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. He was named Player of the Month for March 2009 for his performances. On 15 July 2009, he scored a crucial goal in the 2010 UEFA Champions League qualifier against Red Bull Salzburg in Austria to secure a 1–1 draw for Bohemians. However N'Do and Bohs would depart that competition over the two legs, losing 2–1 on aggregate. He then added to his collection of medals on 26 September as Bohs beat

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in the final of the 2009 League of Ireland_Cup#Final. He was not done yet, as a great run of form towards the end of the season helped Bohs to their second

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Premier Division

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in a row, winning by four points over closest rivals

with N'Do scoring vital goals against

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and

Sligo Rovers Sligo Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí Shligigh) is an Irish professional football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club is based in Sligo in the west of Ireland. The club was founded in 1928 ...

in the closing games of the season. His performances over the season were rewarded when he was once more voted on to the

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for 2009 along with teammates

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, Conor Powell, Ken Oman, Brian Shelley and

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. On 6 November 2009, N'Do played his last match for Bohemians against Bray Wanderers to clinch the title for the Gypsies after they won the league. Like his former manager

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, he is one of a rare group of players to have played for each of Dublin's "Big 4" – St. Patrick's Athletic, Shelbourne, Shamrock Rovers, and Bohemians. On 23 March 2010, N'Do signed for

until the end of the season, having been a free agent after leaving Bohemians at the end of the previous season. He was voted man of the match at the

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, won by Sligo Rovers at the

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in Dublin on 14 November 2010. Under the guidance of new manager Paul Cooke, he continued to haunt former club St Pat's, with several man of the match performances during the 2011 season. He remained with Sligo for the 2012 season, and won the League of Ireland for his fourth time. In 2013, he won another FAI Cup medal with Sligo Rovers, helping them beat

3–2 with a controversial assist to Sligo playmaker

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. On 30 July 2014, N'Do signed for

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on loan as a player-coach until the end of the season and on 31 January 2015, he signed for Irish amateur club Arrow Harps as a player-coach. He played three games before he rejoined Sligo Rovers. On 27 March 2016, N'Do made his first appearance for his latest club

Achill Rovers F.D.A.C. Achill Rovers F.D.A.C. is an List of association football clubs in the Republic of Ireland, Irish association football club based in Achill Island, County Mayo. The club was founded in 1986 in Ireland, 1986 following the merger of Achill United ...

International career

N'Do played for the Cameroon national team after being discovered by Claude LeRoy just prior to the

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, and took part in three matches during that tournament. In the qualifying campaign for the

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he played three times but remained an unused substitute in the

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. He did not play for Cameroon after 2002, and publicly expressed his unwillingness to come back. N'Do earned 21 caps while representing his country at senior level.

Post-playing career

In February 2015, N'Do joined Achill Rovers in a coaching capacity to work with their Under-12 and -13 boys teams, Under-12 and -14 girls teams and their junior side. and on 9 April 2015, fan favourite N'Do was re-signed as a coach with

following the sacking of manager

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, where he was appointed caretaker manager of the club alongside Gavin Dykes. In September 2015 he became head coach of the

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representative team. In September 2021 N'Do was appointed coach of IT Sligo Soccer. He has worked as a football commentator.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Cotonsport Garoua *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

Strasbourg *

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: 2000–01 Shelbourne *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

Bohemians *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

League of Ireland Cup The League of Ireland Cup ( ga, Corn Sraithe na hÉireann), also referred to in Ireland as the 'League Cup', is an annual knockout competition in men's football in the Republic of Ireland. It is contested by League of Ireland clubs and invited c ...

Sligo Rovers *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

FAI Cup The Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup (FAI Cup), known as the Extra.ie FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association football competition contested annually by teams from the Republic of Ireland (as well as Derry ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

Setanta Sports Cup The Setanta Sports Cup was a club football competition featuring teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland. Inaugurated in 2005, it was a cross-border competition between clubs in the League of Ireland from the Republic of I ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Cameroon *

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

Individual *

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