Bertin Tomou Bayard (born August 8, 1978) is a

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

ian former professional

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who played as a striker. He represented the Cameroon national team at international level.

Football career

Born in

Bafoussam Bafoussam is the capital and largest city of the West Region (Cameroon), West Region of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains. It is the 3rd most important (financially) city in Cameroon, after Yaoundé and Douala. The ''communauté urbaine'' (Urba ...

, Tomou started his career at PWD Bamenda, and left for East Asia in 1997. He first played for

Pohang Steelers The Pohang Steelers (Hangul: 포항 스틸러스) are a South Korean professional Association football, football club based in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province that compete in the K League 1, the top flight of Football in South Korea, South Ko ...

in South Korea, and then went to China in 1998. He received his first cap for

in 2004. He moved to Europe to play for

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in January 2006.

Coaching career

After retiring at the end of 2015, Tomou returned to RFC Huy, where he was appointed youth coordinator, U17 manager and later also manager of the clubs reserve team. He left the club again in November 2016. In December 2016, he was hired by FC Herstal in a position at the clubs youth sector. In August 2019, Tomou returned to RFC Huy in a position as youth coordinator. In May 2020, he was promoted to manager of the clubs first team. In February 2020, he left RFC Huy to join Ans-Montegnée as manager of the clubs first team. He left Ans-Montegnée at the end of the 2022-23 season.BERTIN TOMOU ESPÈRE NE PAS RESTER TROP LONGTEMPS À QUAI
le-football-liegeois.footeo.com, 31 July 2023

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