Fabrice Olinga

Fabrice Olinga Essono (born 12 May 1996), known as Olinga, is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a forward for Portuguese club Rio Ave.

He became the youngest ever player to score in La Liga at the age of 16, at the service of Malaga. Released shortly after, he also competed professionally in Cyprus, Romania, Belgium and Portugal.

Olinga represented Cameroon at the 2014 World Cup.

Club Career

At the age of only 16, Olinga was called up by first-team manager Manuel Pellegrini for the 2012–13 opener, away against RC Celta de Vigo: he came on as a 60th-minute substitute for Sebastian Fernandez, and went on to score the game's only goal, becoming La Liga's youngest ever goalscorer at 16 years and 98 days, beating the previous record holder Iker Muniain by 191 days.

Olinga started again four days later, appearing in a 2–0 win over Panathinaikos FC in the season's UEFA Champions League and playing 70 minutes. On 20 January 2014, he cut ties with Malaga – after rejecting the offer for a revised and improved contract counseled by his agent Pini Zahavi– and joined Apollon Limassol from the Cypriot First Division, being immediately loaned to S.V. Zulte Waregem for five months with an option to make the move permanently afterwards.

In February 2015, Apollon loaned Olinga to Romania's FC Viitorul Constanța, with the transfer being superseded by U.C. Sampdoria who had too many non-European Union players in its ranks. On 11 April of the following year, compatriot Eto'o called a press conference in which he announced he was taking the Italian club to court for what he perceived as an unfair treatment of Olinga, going as far as claiming both signings were related.

In the summer of 2015, Sampdoria renounced his rights on Olinga and he signed a two-year deal at Royal Mouscron-Peruwelz.

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