Mathias Chago
Chago in Dinamo Zagreb colours
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mathias Dengoue Chago de Confiance | ||
| Date of birth | 13 March 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Bakou, Cameroon | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Foolad | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000 | Olympic Mvolyé | ||
| 2001–2002 | Racing Bafoussam | ||
| 2002–2005 | Metalac Osijek | 33 | (8) |
| 2005–2013 | Dinamo Zagreb | 84 | (8) |
| 2010 | → Istra 1961 (loan) | 12 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | → Lokomotiva (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | Lokomotiva | 46 | (3) |
| 2014– | Foolad | 76 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2009 | Cameroon | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 August 2009 |
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Mathias Dellgoue Chago de Confiance (born 6 March 1983 in Bakou, Cameroon), commonly known simply as Chago, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who is also a Croatian citizen as from January 2006. He currently plays for Foolad. Formerly a player of Olympic Mvolyé, Racing FC Bafoussam, NK Metalac, Dinamo Zagreb and Lokomotiva, Chago represents Cameroon at the international level, debuting in a first–team against Côte d'Ivoire in a friendly match that was played on 13 June 2009.
Chago started his football career at a youth club Olympic Mvolyé. There he played for two seasons before joining the MTN Elite one side Racing FC Bafoussam in 2000, where he until 2003.
At the age of 19, Chago and two other Cameroonian players ran away to Croatia, hoping to succeed in professional football there in order to feed his family of ten brothers and sisters back in Cameroon. The manager that brought them left them broke on the streets of Zagreb. Without any money to return to Cameroon, the players didn't have any choice but to stay in Croatia. Soon after the players were contacted by Croatian football icon Miroslav Blažević, who gave them his own flat to sleep at, also providing players with training sessions at the Maksimir football centre. The players had to hide from the Croatian police since they didn't have the visas which were required for their prolonged stay in Croatia.
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