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Cyrille Ndongo-Keller (born 16 February 1974) is a Cameroonian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder.[1]

Career

Ndongo-Keller grew up in the Yaoundé neighborhoods of Mballa II and Nlongkak. He started his career in Olympic Mvolyé and went on to top-tier team Tonnerre Yaoundé in 1991.[2] While here he represented Cameroon in the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship,[3] where Cameroon was grouped with Colombia, Russia and Australia.

In the summer of 1993 he migrated to Australia where he signed with Parramatta Eagles. After a four-month stint in Darwin Cubs from March to July 1994 he played three seasons in Adelaide Sharks.[4] In 1995 he received his first and only cap for the Cameroon national team in an African Nations Cup qualifier against Malawi, donning the number 9 jersey formerly belonging to Roger Milla.[2][5] In 1997 he had a brief stint with Yokohama Flugels in Japan.[4]

He settled in Australia where he coached the NSW Sapphires women's team in 1999–2000,[4] and later set up his own football academy and sports entrepreneurship company.[2]

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