Jules Alex Nyom
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Jules Alex Nyom, is a Cameroon
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

ian soccer goalkeeper, and plays for RoPS
RoPS
Rovaniemen Palloseura is a Finnish football club, founded in 1950 and based in the town of Rovaniemi. In 2009 RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division but got relegated to Ykkönen after being the lowest-placed team in the end of the season...

.

Career

Nyom played for the Etoile of Essazock and Canon de Yaounde in Cameroon, ES Sétif
ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne , commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1...

 in the Algerian Championnat National
Algerian Championnat National
The Ligue Professionnelle 1 , known as Ligue 1 for short, and formerly known as the Championnat National 1, is the Algerian professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the Algerian football league system...

.

Minnesota Twin Stars

In 2007, he made his NPSL
NPSL
NPSL may stand for:*National Premier Soccer League - a soccer league considered to be at the 4th level of the American Soccer Pyramid*National Professional Soccer League - a 1960s U.S. outdoor soccer league....

 season debut at age 23. During the 2008 season, he helped the team win their first Midwest Regional title with a goal differential of +7 and 2 clean sheets in 6 games, but his absence at the Final Four National Championship in New York had shows gaps in the Twin Stars productivity with out him, and they lost in the final 2-1 to the Pennsylvania Stoners
Pennsylvania Stoners
Pennsylvania Stoners is an American soccer team based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 2007, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League , a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Eastern Keystone Division.The team plays its home...

. 2009 was his most successful season, being named the team captain for the NPSL Final Four Tournament (as Juan Fiz was injured), winning another Midwest Region title, earning a name on the Midwest All-Star team, and making many key saves in the Final Four Semi-Final, but eventually losing to Sonoma County Sol
Sonoma County Sol
Sonoma County Sol is an American soccer team based in Santa Rosa, California, United States. Founded in 2004, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League , a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northwest Division.The team plays its home games at...

 4-1.

RoPS

It was announced in the summer of 2010 that Nyom was signed on a professional contract for RoPS of Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. His first season was rather successful, and in his second match for RoPS he received a Man of the Match award. Nyom played a total of 11 games in the 2010 season, shutting out the opposition in seven matches. These performances during the regular season led to the team finishing as champions of the Ykkönen
Ykkönen
Ykkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...

, and a secured promotion to the Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...

 for the 2011 season.

Spoken languages

Alex fluently speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 due to playing in the United States and in other various countries.

External links

  • Alex's channel on YouTube
    YouTube
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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svV1d60YBmg
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti8WQ4E5lmY
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOdLP0ffAWU
  • Alex Nyom website:
  • http://www.alexnyom.net
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