![]() Ekeng playing for Lausanne-Sport in 2014 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng[1] | ||
Date of birth | 26 March 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Yaoundé, Cameroon | ||
Date of death | 6 May 2016 | (aged 26)||
Place of death | Bucharest, Romania | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2008 | Canon Yaoundé | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | Canon Yaoundé | 29 | (7) |
2009–2013 | Le Mans | 35 | (1) |
2011 | → Rodez (loan) | 13 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Lausanne-Sport | 28 | (2) |
2014–2016 | Córdoba | 14 | (1) |
2016 | Dinamo București | 10 | (1) |
Total | 129 | (12) | |
International career | |||
2009–2010 | Cameroon U20 | 10 | (1) |
2015–2016 | Cameroon | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng (26 March 1990 – 6 May 2016) was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he represented at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
After starting at Canon Yaoundé and spending time on the fringes of France's Le Mans, he had brief spells in Switzerland, Spain, and Romania, where he died after collapsing in a match for Dinamo București.