Embolo warming up for Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2022
Personal information
Full name
Breel Donald Embolo[1]
Date of birth
(1997-02-14) 14 February 1997 (age 27)[1]
Place of birth
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Height
1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s)
Forward
Team information
Current team
Monaco
Number
36
Youth career
2006–2008
Nordstern
2008–2010
Old Boys
2010–2014
Basel
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
2014–2016
Basel
61
(21)
2016–2019
Schalke 04
48
(10)
2019–2022
Borussia Mönchengladbach
88
(22)
2022–
Monaco
37
(13)
International career‡
2012–2013
Switzerland U16
0
(0)
2014–2017
Switzerland U20
2
(0)
2014–2015
Switzerland U21
0
(0)
2015–
Switzerland
63
(13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 December 2022
Breel Donald Embolo (born 14 February 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Monaco and the Switzerland national team.
Born in Cameroon, Embolo moved with his family 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 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 in Germany for Borussia Mönchengladbach and in the French Ligue 1 for Monaco.
Embolo made his senior international debut in 2015, earning over 60 caps. He represented Switzerland at the UEFA European Championship in 2016 and 2020, and at the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022.
^ ab"FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of Players: Switzerland" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2019.
^"Breel Donald Embolo". bundesliga.com. DFL. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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two players with 10 goals or more for the season, namely himself and BreelEmbolo. On 11 February, he scored twice in a 3–1 home win over leaders PSG,...
(UTC+3). The teams had never met before. After a goalless first half, BreelEmbolo scored the only goal of the match three minutes into the second period...
fan petition gathered 18,000 signatures (including national team star BreelEmbolo) in the first day of its publication and Super League heavy-weights BSC...
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clipping Manuel Akanji to beat Yann Sommer. Switzerland sent on forwards BreelEmbolo and Haris Seferovic, and the latter tested Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen...
Oberlin was often compared with fellow Cameroon-born, Swiss international BreelEmbolo, and Zürich chairman Ancillo Capella remarked upon Oberlin's departure...
Eriksen, who had collapsed earlier in the game due to a cardiac arrest. BreelEmbolo of Switzerland did not celebrate a goal against Cameroon in the 2022...
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headed back across goal by BreelEmbolo, and the unmarked Blerim Džemaili lashed home from eight yards. Keylor Navas blocked Embolo's effort at his near post...
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Basel". MLS. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2019. "Lichtsteiner and Embolo: Switzerland's Best Footballers". Credit Suisse. 21 September 2015. Retrieved...
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