Guy Stéphane Essame (born 25 November 1984) is a Cameroonian former

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who played as a

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Career

Club

In 2008, he signed for the Chechen club

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, before he played in Boavista where he has played since 2005, playing 22 matches but has yet to score a goal. On 27 July 2009

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have signed the Cameroonian midfielder on loan from

Atyrau

In December 2013, Essame signed for

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side

FC Atyrau Football Club Atyrau () is a professional football club based in Atyrau, who last played in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. The club's home ground is the 8,900-seat Munaishy Stadium, where they have played sin ...

. On the last day of the

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transfer window, 9 July 2014, Essame moved on loan to

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, with Marat Shakhmetov going the opposite way, till the end of the season. At the end of the

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season, Essame signed a new one-year contract with Atyrau. However the contract never reached the

, with the Director of Atyrau cancelling the contract in January 2017, after Essame had taken part in the club's first pre-season training camp.

International

After a long spell in the Brasseries football academy, also responsible for forming the likes of

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and

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, he captained the U17 Cameroon's national team to two continental competitions. A brief stop in Paraguay was then followed by a departure for Portugal, in Boavista. He made his first cap for

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in the 2010 WCQ match against

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on 11 October 2008.

Career statistics

Club

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played 11 February 2009''

Honours

;Astana *

(1):

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Other activities

In 2009, Guy Stephane Essame founded

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in Cameroon coached by Thomas Libiih. In September 2010, it became a

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1984 births Living people Footballers from Douala Cameroonian men's footballers Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers Cameroon men's international footballers Paraguayan Primera División players Primeira Liga players Russian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players Belarusian Premier League players FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players FC Neman Grodno players FC Atyrau players FC Astana players Sportivo Luqueño players Boavista F.C. players FC Akhmat Grozny players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Men's association football midfielders {{Cameroon-footy-midfielder-stub