Sébastien Bassong
Bassong warming up for Tottenham Hotspur in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Sébastien Aymar Bassong Nguena | ||
| Date of birth | 9 July 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Norwich City | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2002 | INF Clairefontaine | ||
| 2002–2005 | Metz | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2005–2008 | Metz | 79 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Newcastle United | 30 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Tottenham Hotspur | 45 | (2) |
| 2012 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2012– | Norwich City | 105 | (4) |
| 2014–2015 | → Watford (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2009 | France U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2009– | Cameroon | 15 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:38, 15 February 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC) |
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Sébastien Aymar Bassong Nguena (born 9 July 1986) is a French-born Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Championship club Norwich City, and for the Cameroonian national team. He has been in a relegated team a total of six times throughout his career; twice at Metz in 2006 and 2008, at Newcastle United in 2009, at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2012 and twice at Norwich in 2014 and 2016.
Metz signed Bassong out of the Clairefontaine academy. There he played 79 times, scoring once, in the French second tier.
In July 2008, Bassong was offered a one-week trial with Newcastle United and made his debut in a pre-season friendly against Doncaster Rovers. On 30 July, it was confirmed that Newcastle had agreed a fee of £500,000 with Metz for Bassong.
He made his professional debut for Newcastle on 26 August in a League Cup game away to Coventry City, before playing his first league game for Newcastle away to Arsenal when he came on as a substitute for José Enrique. He received his first red card for the club away to Wigan Athletic on 26 December. Another came on 16 May 2009 as part of 0–1 home defeat to Fulham in the penultimate game of the season. Bassong was named the Newcastle Player of the Season for 2008–09.
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