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Breel Donald Embolo is a Swiss and Cameroonian association football player born in Yaoundé in 1997. He plays as a forward, also referred to as a centre-forward, and wears the number 36 jersey. Embolo has represented Switzerland at various levels, including the under-16, under-20, and senior national teams. His club career includes stints with FC Basel and Rennes, and he has competed in the Bundesliga.
Embolo participated in major international tournaments such as the 2018 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016. He began his professional work period in 2014. In addition to his athletic career, he speaks German.
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Key facts
- 2012
- Switzerland U16
- 2015
- Switzerland
- 2025
- Rennes
- Full name
- Breel Donald Embolo
- Date of birth
- ( 1997-02-14 ) 14 February 1997 (age 29)
- Place of birth
- Yaoundé , Cameroon
- Height
- 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Position
- Forward
- Current team
- Rennes
- 2006 2008
- Nordstern
- 2008 2010
- Old Boys
- 2010 2014
- Basel
- Years
- Team
- 2014 2016
- Basel
- 2016 2019
- Schalke 04
- 2019 2022
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- 2022 2025
- Monaco
- 2014 2015
- Switzerland U20
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Rennes
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- Switzerland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cameroon
- Place of birth
- Yaoundé
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Stade Rennais F.C.
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Switzerland
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- 2022128160447 2022-05-08 Fussball Eintracht Frankfurt vs Borussia Mönchengladbach - Sven - 1D X MK II - 1422 - B70I7533 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 185
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1997-02-14
- sport number
- 36
- Commons category
- Breel Embolo
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- birth name
- Breel Donald Embolo
- name in native language
- Breel Embolo
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Breel Donald Embolo (born 14 February 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Rennes and the Switzerland national team.
Born in Cameroon, Embolo moved with his mother and siblings to France before finally settling in Switzerland. After working his way through their junior teams, Embolo made his professional debut for Basel in March 2014, and won the Swiss Super League in all three of his first seasons before moving to Germany after being signed by Schalke 04 for a reported fee of €20 million. Shortly after moving to the Bundesliga, he suffered an ankle injury that ruled him out for nearly a year. He later played for Borussia Mönchengladbach before moving to Ligue 1 to play for Monaco.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Breel Embolo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.