André Bikey

Spain and Portugal

Bikey left his native Cameroon to start his footballing career at Espanyol in Spain when he was 15. Still, he failed to make the grade at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys and left without making a first-team appearance. He signed with Portuguese Segunda Liga side Marco, and made his debut in professional football in a 6–1 home win over Ovarense on 29 September 2002. He scored his first senior goal in a 3–0 home win over Felgueiras on 19 April. He played a total of 13 games during the 2002–03 season and was sent off for two bookable offences on the penultimate match of the campaign, in a 4–0 defeat by Farense at the Estádio de São Luís on 25 May. He then joined Primeira Liga club Paços de Ferreira. He made his debut in the top flight in a 1–0 defeat by Marítimo at the Estádio da Mata Real on 13 September 2003. He played one further game for the "Beavers" before he followed manager José Manuel Gomes to return to the Segunda Liga to play for Aves. He played 14 games for Aves in the second half of the 2003–04 season and was sent off on the final day of the campaign after being shown two yellow cards in a 3–0 loss to Sporting Covilhã at the Estádio do CD Aves on 9 May. He went on to train with Primeira Liga side União de Leiria, though did not make a competitive appearance for the club.

Russia

Bikey moved to Russia to join Premier League club Shinnik Yaroslavl. He scored one goal in 11 league games for Oleg Dolmatov's "Black-Blues". His…

Bikey was named by head coach Artur Jorge in the Cameroon squad for the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, and won his first cap after coming on as a substitute for Raymond Kalla in a 2–0 win over Togo in a group stage game at Cairo's Military Academy Stadium on 25 January. He went on to play in the quarter-finals, and converted his penalty in the shoot-out defeat to the Ivory Coast on 4 February. He was dropped by new coach Arie Haan after the tournament, and then turned down a call-up under Jules Nyongha in March 2007. He was named by Otto Pfister in Cameroon's squad for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. On 31 February, he was sent off in the semi-final win over Ghana after a bizarre incident where he pushed a Ghanaian stretcher bearer in the dying seconds of the match. The medic in question, Samuel Ashia, said that "It was very forceful, and I landed badly. It didn’t hurt at the time but the next day my head ached and the area around my waist did, too... he hasn't apologised and I will be happy when he does, because no player should do that." Bikey was banned from the final and Cameroon were fined US$5,000 by the CAF. Egypt went on to beat Cameroon in the final. He scored his first and only international goal in a 3–0 victory over Mauritius in a World Cup qualification match in Curepipe on 8 June 2008. He was named in Cameroon's squad for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He played in all three group games as well as the quarter-final, where Cameroon were…

On 27 July 2020, Bikey was named José Gomes' assistant at Spanish Segunda División side UD Almería. He joined Gomes again in 2022 to be his assistant at rival Segunda División side SD Ponferradina. He joined Egyptian club Zamalek as a coach in 2024, three months before they lifted the CAF Confederations Cup.

Primarily a defender, he could also play in midfield. He had great strength and athleticism, as well as good technical ability. He was described by the Middlesbrough Gazette as an "absolute monster, a physically imposing hulk with a massive turning circle who did a solid if sometimes erratic job at Boro but was always worth at least one heart-stopping moment of madness per game". He celebrated his goals with a hat-trick of somersaults.