Clotilde Essiane

Clotilde Essiane
Personal information
Nicknames
  • Junior
  • Francisca Mbang
NationalityCameroonian
Born (1985-08-06) 6 August 1985 (age 41)
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
WeightMiddleweight
Martial arts career
NicknameJunior
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)
DivisionFeatherweight
Fighting out of
South Africa
Other information
Association football career
Position Centre-forward
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
Boxing career

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

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.

Mixed martial arts career

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

Football career

Club career

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

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. 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.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
128 October 2006Warri Stadium, Warri, Nigeria Nigeria2–22–42006 African Women's Championship
23 November 2006Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara, Nigeria Algeria3–3
33–3
411 March 2007Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa South Africa1–12–42008 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
52–2

References

  1. ↑ Clotilde Essiane Archived 3 May 2018 at the Wayback Machineat BoxRec.com
  2. 1 2 "Boxing | Athlete Profile: Clotilde ESSIANE". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Women's Athlete Profiles" (PDF). p. 36.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Clotilde Essiane at Tapology.com
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  6. ↑ "Clotilde Essiane: Mains de velours, poings de fer".
  7. 1 2 "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. 1 2 Ndibi, Kushatha (12 March 2007). "DRC referee blows up a storm". Retrieved 3 May 2018.