Clotilde Essiane

Clotilde Essiane
Born (1985-08-06) 6 August 1985 (age 39)[3]
Yaoundé, Cameroon[4][5]
NationalityCameroonian
Other names
  • Junior
  • Francisca Mbang[2]
Statistics
Weight(s)Middleweight
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Martial arts career
NicknameJunior[5]
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)[6]
DivisionFeatherweight[5]
Fighting out ofSouth Africa[5]
Association football career
Position(s) Centre-forward[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004 TKC (17)
2006 Las Vegas
International career
2006–2007 Equatorial Guinea (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Clotilde Essiane aka Junior[7] (born 6 August 1985) is a Cameroonian boxer, mixed martial artist and a retired footballer,[1] who currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.[8]

Boxing career

Essiane represented Cameroon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and she was their flag bearer at the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. She lost to Tammara Thibeault from Canada in the women's middleweight competition quarterfinals.[3]

Mixed martial arts career

In 2016, Essiane defeated Bunmi Ojewole from Nigeria and Rushda Mallick and Ansie Van Der Marwe, both from South Africa.[5]

Football career

Club career

Essiane scored 17 goals for Cameroonian club TKC in 2004.[1] In October 2006, she was registered as a player for Equatorial Guinean club Las Vegas.[7]

International career

Essiane was going to play for the Cameroon national team at the 2004 African Women's Championship, but she missed it due to a tear in her left thigh.[1] Two years later, she was naturalized by Equatorial Guinea to play for that country national team.

International goals

Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 28 October 2006 Warri Stadium, Warri, Nigeria  Nigeria 2–2 2–4 2006 African Women's Championship
2 3 November 2006 Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara, Nigeria  Algeria 3–3
3 3–3
4 11 March 2007[9] Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa  South Africa 1–1[10] 2–4 2008 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
5 2–2[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Moadougou, Priscille G. (5 November 2004). "Cameroun: Clotilde Essiane : Mains de velours, poings de fer" [Cameroon: Clotilde Essiane: velvet hands, iron fists]. CAMLIONS.COM (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018. The best female boxer in the 75 kg is also a footballer.
  2. ^ Clotilde Essiane at BoxRec.com
  3. ^ a b "Boxing | Athlete Profile: Clotilde ESSIANE". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Women's Athlete Profiles" (PDF). p. 36.
  5. ^ a b c d e Clotilde Essiane at Tapology.com
  6. ^ "Clotilde Essiane: Mains de velours, poings de fer".
  7. ^ a b "5e CAN féminine: la sélection equato-guinéenne" (in French). RFI. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Clotilde "Junior" Essiane". LFS. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Live Scores - Equatorial Guinea - Women's - Matches (2007)". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2018.
  10. ^ a b Ndibi, Kushatha (12 March 2007). "DRC referee blows up a storm". Retrieved 3 May 2018.


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