Joseph-Désiré Job
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Joseph-Désiré Job | ||
| Date of birth | 1 December 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Vénissieux, Rhône, France | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position |
Attacking midfielder Left-winger |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1993 | Vénissieux | ||
| 1993–1996 | Lyon | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1999 | Lyon | 41 | (11) |
| 1999–2000 | Lens | 24 | (4) |
| 2000–2006 | Middlesbrough | 94 | (19) |
| 2002 | →Metz (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 2005–2006 | →Al-Ittihad (loan) | 28 | (9) |
| 2006–2007 | Sedan | 28 | (10) |
| 2007–2008 | Nice | 12 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | Al-Kharitiyath | 23 | (10) |
| 2009 | Diyarbakırspor | 8 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Lierse | 10 | (3) |
| Total | 281 | (71) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–2011 | Cameroon | 52 | (8) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 May 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
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Joseph-Désiré Job (born 1 December 1977 in Vénissieux, Rhône) is a former French-born Cameroonian football striker. He also played for the Cameroon national team.
After starting his career in France, Job moved to English team Middlesbrough, where he spent six years and is most remembered for scoring one of the two goals in the 2004 League Cup Final, where Middlesbrough won their first ever trophy.
He also played for clubs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Belgium. Whilst playing for Saudi club Al-Ittihad, he won the 2005 AFC Champions League and scored in the final.
Job was born in the French city of Lyon and began training with the Olympique Lyonnais youth academy at the age of ten. He made his debut for the club in the Intertoto Cup when he was nineteen years old in 1997, scoring a hat-trick as the club beat Polish club Odra Wodzisław 5–2.
Job joined Lens on 1 August 1999.
He scored a number of goals for Lens in the UEFA Cup 1999–2000 as they reached the semi-final stage.
Middlesbrough's then manager Bryan Robson signed Job in 2000 for £3m, where he scored 19 goals in 94 appearances for the club. He also scored 20 minutes into his debut against Coventry City. After struggling to hold down a regular place in the team, he was sent on loan to French Ligue 1 club FC Metz in December 2001, until the end of the season.
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