The Cameroonian Modeste M’Bami, who, among other teams, played with Almería in the First Division between 2009 and 2011, died this Saturday in the French city of Le Havre at the age of 40 due to a heart attack, reported PSG, the club in the who served between 2003 and 2006.
The international midfielder with Cameroon, who retired in 2016 after playing for French Le Havre, joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2003, after going through the Kadji Sport Academy and Dynamo Douala in his country, in the summer of 2006 he He signed for Olympique de Marseille and later arrived at Almería in October 2009, until at the end of the 2010-11 campaign he went to the Chinese Super League.
M’Bami made his name at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a golden goal in the quarter-final against the heavy favorites, Ronaldinho’s Brazil.
In Paris, M’Bami became a fixture on the team, with which he won two French Cups (2004 and 2006). After a long absence due to a serious injury against CSKA Moscow on December 7, 2004, he returned to the starting line-up in 2005-2006, for his third season in the French capital, but then he opted to leave Paris and was hired by Oympique de Marseille, where he spent three years.
He then traveled to Spain to play for Almería between 2009 and 2011, the year in which he signed for Chinese Dalian, who had him on loan for a while at Changchun Yatai in that same country. Later he played in Saudi Arabia (Al-Ittihad, 2012-2013) and Colombia (Millionaires in 2014), before returning to France, to Le Havre, from Ligue 2. He ended his professional career in 2016, at the 35 years.
Back in Cameroon, he organized recruitment days for young footballers in Africa and then returned to France, to Le Havre, where he died this Saturday, PSG said on its website.
