Jean-Pierre Tokoto

Jean-Pierre Tokoto
Personal information
Date of birth (1948-01-26) 26 January 1948
Place of birth Douala, Cameroon
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position Midfielder[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1969 Oryx Douala – (–)
1968–1969 Marseille 12 (1)
1969–1970 CA Paris-Neuilly 31 (13)
1970–1971 AC Paris-Joinville 14 (0)
1971–1972 Marseille 2 (0)
1972–1975 Bordeaux 102 (21)
1975–1977 Paris Saint-Germain 59 (17)
1977–1978 Bordeaux 38 (10)
1978–1980 Béziers Hérault 60 (12)
1980–1981 New England Tea Men 57 (17)
1981 Jacksonville Tea Men 23 (2)
1981–1982 Philadelphia Fever (indoor) 11 (8)
International career
Cameroon
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations
Third place1972 Cameroon
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jean-Pierre Tokoto (born 26 January 1948) is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer. He made three appearances for the Cameroon national team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.[2]

Career

Club

In March 1980, Tokoto signed with the New England Tea Men of the North American Soccer League.[3] In 1981, the team moved to Florida and renamed itself the Jacksonville Tea Men. In the fall of 1981, Tokoto moved to the Philadelphia Fever of the Major Indoor Soccer League.

In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.[4]

International

Tokoto made three appearances for Cameroon at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.[2] He played in all five of Cameroon's matches at the 1972 African Cup of Nations and was named to the tournament's team.[5]

Coaching

After retiring from professional football in the early 1980s, Tokoto conducted camps in the New Jersey area before moving to Rockford, Illinois, in 1991.[6] He joined Rockford United Soccer Club as an assistant coach in 1992 and became its head coach in 1994. In 1995, he founded the Tokoto City Soccer League, which had grown to 350 inner-city members by 1999.[6]

Personal life

Tokoto's grandson, also named Jean-Pierre,[7] is a basketball player who was drafted in 2015 by the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Tokoto has a second grandson, Seth Trimble, who plays college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels.[8]

Honours

Oryx

Marseille

Cameroon

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Jean-Pierre Tokoto". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jean-Pierre Tokoto". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 6 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Tea men acquire two stars Boston Globe, 28 March 1980
  4. ↑ "Οι 200 κορυφαίοι Αφρικανοί". Sport24.gr. 25 October 2006. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  5. 1 2 "African Nations Cup 1972 - Final Tournament Details". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
  6. 1 2 Schreck, Reed (30 July 1999). "Cameroon hero Tokoto tries to pass along passion for soccer". Rockford Register Star. pp. 1E, 4E. Retrieved 6 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "High school hoops superstar Tokoto is one that got away". Rockford Register Star. 31 January 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  8. ↑ Marks, Brendan (27 January 2022). "'It's all upside': Seth Trimble ready to bring the bounce as North Carolina's point guard of the future". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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