Pierre Webó

Early career

Born in Bafoussam, West Region, Webó started his professional career in Uruguay, playing three years with Club Nacional de Football, winning two Primera División titles – although he only was an important first-team member in his third season – and becoming top scorer of the 2002 edition of the Copa Sudamericana. He moved to Europe in January 2003, signing with Segunda División club CD Leganés in the outskirts of Madrid, on loan from CA Osasuna.

Osasuna

In the summer of 2003, Webó returned to Osasuna, for whom he scored six goals in the 2005–06 campaign, being instrumental in the Navarrese side's fourth La Liga place and qualification for the UEFA Champions League, although they would ultimately be ousted by Hamburger SV prior to the group stage. Webó's 2006–07 pre-season was hampered after he was forced to undergo treatment for malaria, but he went on to produce similar numbers in the league, adding two goals in nine games in the team's semi-final run in the UEFA Cup, including the match's only in a home tie against Rangers.

Mallorca

Webó moved to RCD Mallorca in 2007, spending most of his first season on the sidelines with an injury. He did manage five league goals.

Following Dani Güiza's departure, Webó's importance increased, and he totalled 22 goals the following three seasons, netting six in 2009–10 as the Balearic Islands team finished fifth and qualified for the Europa League (later revoked). In the 2011 off-season, after…

An international since 2003, Webó's first highlight playing for the Cameroon national team was a hat-trick in his country's 3–2 win in Ivory Coast in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but his team would not travel to Germany, precisely at the hands of that opponent. Webó scored in a 3–1 friendly loss against Portugal on 1 June 2010, and started in the first two games at that year's FIFA World Cup in South Africa (both ending in defeat), with the player not managing to find the net. Webó was called up for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2006 and 2010, as well as the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but did not score in any tournament; however, at the latter continental tournament he set up both goals as a substitute in a draw with Tunisia that saw his team into the quarter-finals. On 17 November 2013, he was among the scorers in a 4–1 playoff victory over the same opponents that took Cameroon to the World Cup in Brazil.

After retiring, Webó joined İstanbul Başakşehir's coaching staff under Okan Buruk. In a Champions League group stage fixture against Paris Saint-Germain FC on 8 December 2020, he accused he was the target of racism by Romanian fourth official Sebastian Colțescu. The latter had allegedly used a term (negru, meaning black in Romanian), similar to a taboo racial slur in some western European countries but without the racial connotations, when describing and pointing out Webó to the main referee Ovidiu Hațegan; the incident, which occurred in the first half, ultimately led to the match being postponed, while UEFA also opened an investigation on the matter.

Webó's cousin Geremi was a long-time international teammate for Cameroon.