Nicolas Brice Moumi Ngamaleu (born 9 July 1994) is a Cameroonian professional

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who plays as a winger for

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club

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and the Cameroon national team.

Club career

Ngamaleu was still only 17 when he made his

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debut with

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. He won three domestic titles in his home land before moving to Austria in 2016. He helped Rheindorf Altach finish fourth in the Austrian league.FIFA.com
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, their first league title for 32 years. On 8 September 2022, Ngamaleu signed with

in Russia for two seasons, with an option to extend. In the 2023–24 season, Ngamaleu scored two winning goals, both deep in added time against

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and Baltika Kaliningrad on 5 May and 11 May respectively, as Dynamo overtook Zenit and

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to take a 2-point lead in the Russian Premier League table with 2 games to go. On 18 May, he scored an added-time goal in third consecutive game, establishing the final score in a 4–1 victory over Krylia Sovetov. On 1 June 2024, Dynamo confirmed that the performance-based extension option for the 2024–25 season has been triggered in his contract. On 2 August 2024, Ngamaleu extended his contract with Dynamo for the 2025–26 season, with an option for 2026–27.

International career

Ngamaleu made his debut with the Cameroon national team against

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on 28 March 2017. He was included in the Cameroon squad for the

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in Russia. He placed third with Cameroon at the

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, where he supplied two assists and converted one penalty in the penalty shoot-out against

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in the third-place playoff. He started in six out of seven matches and played one half in the last game. On 10 November 2022 he was selected by

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to compete in the

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ngamaleu goal''.

Honours

Coton Sport *

: 2013, 2014, 2015 Young Boys *

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: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,

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: 2019–20 Cameroon *Africa Cup of Nations Bronze:

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Individual *

Team of the Year: 2019–20

References

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