Marius Mouandilmadji: ex-FC Porto star leads Conference League scorers | OneFootball

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Do you remember Marius Mouandilmadji? Even without questioning your football knowledge, it’s likely that this name has already faded from the memory of the average football fan in Portugal.

Now 28 years old, the striker played in Portugal between 2018 and 2021, wearing the colors of FC Porto and CD Aves. Five years after leaving our country, the player from Chad has been standing out in the Conference League, where he leads the scoring charts.

In tonight’s victory for Samsunspor (4-0 against KF Shkendija), Marius scored two goals, bringing his total to seven goals in eight matches in the third most important club competition in Europe.

A striker who couldn’t find his place in Portugal

Marius’s career began in his home country, but his first standout season happened in Cameroon. In 2018, playing for Cotonsport, the striker, then 20 years old, scored 18 goals in 30 matches.

Given that performance, FC Porto moved to sign him, offering a four-year contract.

His debut for the Dragons was promising: brought on in the final moments of the first matchday of the 2018/19 league, the Chadian scored the fifth and final goal in the match against Chaves.

Despite this auspicious start, Marius didn’t convince Sérgio Conceição and spent most of the season with the B team, where he recorded five goals in 18 matches.

Halfway through the following season (2019/20), he was loaned to CD Aves, but failed to score in 12 appearances for the club. In his last season in Portugal, he didn’t play a single minute, bidding farewell to the country without many memories.

Standing out in Turkey

After his time in Portugal, Marius, then 24 years old, moved to Belgium to play for RFC Seraing.

After a quiet first season (three goals), the striker reached eleven goals in 2022/23.

Signed by Samsunspor in the summer, the former FC Porto player has been a model of consistency at the Turkish club. So far, he has scored exactly ten goals in each of the seasons he has played for the team – the current season, of course, is still underway.

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