Jean Onana

Jean Onana
Onana with Beşiktaş in 2023
Personal information
Full name Jean Emile Junior Onana Onana
Date of birth (2000-01-08) 8 January 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth Yaoundé, Cameroon
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Beşiktaş
Number 71
Youth career
0000–2019 Nkufo Academy
2019 → Leixões (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2020 Leixões 1 (0)
2020–2021 Lille B 1 (0)
2020–2021 Lille 1 (0)
2020–2021 → Mouscron (loan) 28 (2)
2021–2022 Bordeaux 26 (3)
2022–2023 Lens 21 (0)
2023– Beşiktaş 7 (0)
2024 → Marseille (loan) 13 (1)
International career‡
2020–2022 Cameroon 10 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations
Third place 2021 Cameroon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 September 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2022

Jean Emile Junior Onana Onana (born 8 January 2000) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş.[1][2]

Club career

On 31 January 2020, Onana joined Lille from Leixões.[3] Onana made his professional debut with Lille in a 2–1 Ligue 1 loss to Marseille on 16 February 2020.[4] In August 2020, he joined Belgian club Mouscron along with some Lille players on loan,[5] where he received a red card in a Division A match defeat to Kortrijk on 13 September.[6]

On 30 August 2021, Onana moved to Ligue 1 club Bordeaux on a five-year contract.[7] On 1 September 2022, he signed for his former club Lille's rivals Lens on a five-year contract.[8] He made his first appearance with Lens on 4 September 2022 against Reims.

On 21 July 2023 Onana moved to Süper Lig club Beşiktaş.[9]

On 11 December 2023, it was officially announced that Onana has been excluded from the Beşiktaş squad along with Vincent Aboubakar, Valentin Rosier, Rachid Ghezzal and Eric Bailly due to poor performance and incompatibility within the team.[10] On 8 January 2024, Beşiktaş sent Onana on loan to Ligue 1 club Marseille until the end of the season, with an option to make the move permanent.[11]

International career

Onana made his Cameroon national team debut on 8 October 2020 in a friendly against Japan.[12][13]

Personal life

In the early morning of 20 May 2024, Onana and OM teammate Faris Moumbagna were the victims of an armed robbery attempt while they were in their cars as they were leaving La Commanderie. Although neither were injured, two bullet holes were found on the driver's door on one of the vehicles.[14]

He is not related to André Onana despite sharing same surname.

Career statistics

As of match played 19 May 2024[15]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Leixões 2018–19 Liga Portugal 2 1 0 — — 1 0
Lille 2019–20 Ligue 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Mouscron (loan) 2020–21 Belgian Pro League 28 2 1 0 — 29 2
Bordeaux 2021–22 Ligue 1 23 3 0 0 — 23 3
2022–23 Ligue 2 3 0 0 0 — 3 0
Total 26 3 0 0 — 26 3
Lens 2022–23 Ligue 1 21 0 2 0 — 23 0
Beşiktaş 2023–24 Süper Lig 4 0 0 0 6[b] 0 10 0
Marseille (loan) 2023–24 Ligue 1 13 1 1 0 0 0 14 1
Career total 94 4 4 0 6 0 104 4
  1. ^ Includes Belgian Cup, Coupe de France
  2. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

As of match played 23 September 2022[16]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Cameroon 2020 1 0
2021 2 0
2022 7 0
Total 10 0

Honours

Cameroon

Beşiktaş

References

  1. ^ "Player". Ligue1. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Biography of Jean Onana | BeSoccer". www.besoccer.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Le milieu camerounais Jean Onana est Lillois | Lille LOSC". www.losc.fr.
  4. ^ "Lille vs. Olympique Marseille - 16 February 2020". Soccerway.
  5. ^ "Royal Excel Mouscron sign Ivorian and Lille centre back". Goal.com. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  6. ^ "KV Kortrijk vs. Excel Mouscron - 13 September 2020". Soccerway.
  7. ^ "Junior Onana rejoint les Girondins" (in French). Bordeaux. 30 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Jean Onana, du coffre dans l'entrejeu" (in French). RC Lens. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Jean Onana switches to Beşiktaş". bjk.com.tr. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Kulübümüzden Bilgilendirme". Beşiktaş J.K. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Jean Onana, Marsilya'ya Geçici Transfer Oldu" [Jean Onana was temporarily transferred to Marseille] (in Turkish). Beşiktaş J.K. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  12. ^ "Japan v Cameroon game report". ESPN. 8 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Cameroon - J. Onana - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  14. ^ Gagnepain, Flavien; Décugis, Jean-Michel (20 May 2024). "Marseille : les footballeurs Onana et Moumbagna braqués, des impacts de balles retrouvés sur leurs voitures". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Jean Onana". Soccerway.
  16. ^ "Jean Onana". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  17. ^ AfricaNews (6 February 2022). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Besiktas claims Turkcell Super Cup with 5-0 win over Galatasaray". Türkiye Today. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.