Nicolas Nkoulou
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Nkoulou with Cameroon in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nicolas Julio Nkoulou Ndoubena | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 March 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Yaoundé, Cameroon | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Sakaryaspor (on loan from Amedspor) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 33 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Kadji Sports Academy | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Monaco | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Monaco | 78 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2016 | Marseille | 162 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Lyon | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Torino (loan) | 37 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | Torino | 85 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Watford | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Aris | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Gaziantep | 32 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Amedspor | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | → Sakaryaspor (loan) | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Cameroon U23 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008– | Cameroon | 83 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Nicolas Julio Nkoulou Ndoubena (born 27 March 1990), known as Nicolas Nkoulou, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Sakaryaspor on loan from Turkish TFF 1. Lig club Amedspor and the Cameroon national team.
Nkoulou began his career in the French league with Monaco, where he spent three years before signing for Marseille in 2011. With Marseille, he won his first senior trophy, the Coupe de la Ligue in the 2011–12 season. In 2016, he left Marseille for Lyon, but after a disappointing year he left to join Italian club Torino, initially on loan but later on a permanent basis. Though initially impressing, he fell out of favour, and left the club in 2021, before signing for English club Watford
Internationally, Nkoulou played 75 times for Cameroon between 2008 and 2017, and decided to retire shortly after winning the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring the equalising goal in the final. He represented Cameroon in three World Cups and three Africa Cup of Nations. In September 2022, he was called up to the national team for the first time after 5 years.