Player NickName: Njitap
Real Name: Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso
Sex: male
Age:
Age:
31 Years, 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 9 Hours, 10 Minutes
Height: 1.75 m
Weight: 12stone 04
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Ethnic Origin:
Location: Newcastle , United Kingdom
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1995–1996 Racing Bafoussam goals scored (0)
1997 Cerro Porteño goals scored (9)
1997–1999 Gençlerbirliği SK045 goals scored (0)
1999–2003 Real Madrid goals scored (7)
2002–2003→ Middlesbrough (loan) goals scored (4)
2003–2007 Chelsea (goals scored0)
2007– Newcastle United
Biography:
Early life
Geremi was born in Bafoussam. His father, Samuel, was a former footballer and played internationally for Cameroon in the 1970s. Due to his exploits in the national team, his father was allowed to marry as many times as he wanted and consequently he has five wives. Geremi himself has nineteen siblings.
Career
Geremi was part of the gold medal-winning Cameroon team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also represented Cameroon at the 2002 World Cup as well as at the 2004, 2006 and 2008 African Nations Cup.
Prior to joining Chelsea in 2003, Geremi played for Cerro Porteño, Gençlerbirliği SK, Real Madrid CF, and Middlesbrough (on loan). He was Middlesbrough’s player of the season for 2002-03. In 2003, Geremi was brought to Chelsea by then Blues manager Claudio Ranieri after Chelsea agreed a 6 million pound fee with Real Madrid.
Geremi was fairly regular for Chelsea while Ranieri was in charge. But since Ranieri was succeeded by José Mourinho, Geremi had struggled to earn a place in the Chelsea first-team due to the exceptional strength in depth of Chelsea’s squad. Despite this, he scored twice in the 2005-06 Premiership season, against both Sunderland and Liverpool.
Although he began his career as a right-winger, Geremi figured in Chelsea manager José Mourinho’s plans as the back-up to Paulo Ferreira at right-back.
At the Adidas and Chelsea “Blue Day Out” event for Fans at the Stamford Bridge Stadium, Geremi had one of the biggest cheers as he made his entrance to the Chelsea Stadium - in an AA Van, after his car had broken down on the journey.
Geremi signed for Newcastle United on the 6 July 2007. He was appointed club captain for the 2007-08 season by then manager Sam Allardyce, but lost the armband after new manager Kevin Keegan awarded the captaincy to Michael Owen on 20 January 2008.[3] He made his debut for the club on 11 August 2007 against Bolton Wanderers. In August 2007 he applied for British citizenship, having lived in the country for five years.
