Viban Bayong
Personal information
Full name Viban Francis Bayong
Date of birth (1975-12-28) 28 December 1975
Place of birth Cameroon
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sable FC
2002 Dinamo Zagreb
2004 Brunei (8)
2005–2010 QAF FC (70)
2006–2007 → DPMM FC (loan) 4 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 July 2018

Viban Francis Bayong (born 28 December 1975) is a Cameroonian former footballer who last played for QAF of the Brunei Super League in 2010. He was top scorer for three consecutive seasons in the Brunei Premier League.

Career

Bayong was a player for Sable FC and was also reported to have been signed by Dinamo Zagreb before arriving in Brunei in 2004.[1][2] He played for the Brunei representative side in the second tier of the Malaysian league for one season, scoring a 15-minute hattrick against PDRM FA on 20 June.[3] He bagged a total of 8 goals for the Wasps, behind Silas Liberato da Silva with 11.[4]

QAF FC signed Bayong at the start of the 2005–06 Brunei Premier League season.[5] He scored 33 goals to finish as top scorer in the league, two of the goals coming in the deciding game for the championship, a 2–3 win over MS ABDB in the second-to-last round.[6][7] He also scored five goals in a 12–3 mauling of March United in the FA Cup, although they were knocked out by their armymen rivals through penalties in the following round.[8][9]

With no league action for QAF until November 2007, both Bayong and Japanese playmaker Dan Ito were loaned to DPMM FC at the start of the 2006–07 Malaysia Super League, whom despite gaining promotion to the Super League were struggling to fill their import quota after the exit of Rodrigo Tosi and Mladen Alajbeg.[10] He made his Malaysian league return after three years by scoring against Pulau Pinang after coming on as a substitute on 20 December.[11] With the loan deal ended after one month, Bayong contributed four goals in four games altogether in a stellar season for DPMM and helped them reach third place at the conclusion of the league.[12][13]

Bayong and QAF were losing finalists to ABDB for the 2006 Brunei League Cup.[14] With both clubs fighting for the 2007-08 championship which began in late 2007, QAF lost the league fixture 0–3 to ABDB on 2 January.[15] Bayong's club then rallied to end the season without dropping anymore points, while a shock loss to Indera FC after a draw with AH United left the armymen trailing in second place.[16][17] QAF managed to hold ABDB to a 2–2 draw in the penultimate game of the season to retain their crown.[18] Bayong and Budiman Jumat of ABDB were joint-top scorers of the league with 18 goals each.[19]

Bayong's last season for QAF FC was the 2009–10 Brunei Premier League, when afterwards hiring import players were forbidden in the following season.[20] Thanks to his goals QAF were unbeaten in the league up until the 17th league match on 16 February 2010 when his brace to down AH United 0–2 clinched their third successive title.[21] He also lifted the League Cup the previous November.[22] Two losses to MS ABDB took off the gloss of his swansong: the final game of the season ended QAF's 34-game unbeaten run,[23][24] and the year's FA Cup final also went to the armymen despite his goal taking the match to 2–1 in the 61st minute.[25]

Conviction

Bayong and his wife were indicted for multiple accounts of people smuggling among other charges in 2015.[26] They were both found guilty in summer 2017, with Bayong being sentenced to five years and four months' jail or one months' jail in default of fine payment.[27] The Cameroonian then appealed to the Bruneian court later that year but it was rejected.[28]

Honours

Team

QAF FC

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "SABLE DE BATIE (Cameroon)". Confederation of African Football. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "To ban or not to ban: FFBD has tough decision to make". The Brunei Times. 4 September 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Brunei Goes on Rat Against The Police". Borneo Bulletin. 21 June 2014. Archived from the original on 17 December 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Malaysia 2004". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 2 February 2005. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "All Eyes on DPMM FC-QAF FC Clash". Borneo Bulletin. 13 May 2005. Archived from the original on 25 November 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Brunei 2005/06". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 23 November 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "QAF FC Are Champs". Borneo Bulletin. 30 January 2006. Archived from the original on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Rampaging QAF FC too much for March United". Borneo Bulletin. 3 October 2005. Archived from the original on 25 November 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  9. ↑ "ABDB in Semis". Borneo Bulletin. 14 February 2006. Archived from the original on 2 December 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Brunei DPMM FC Take on Kedah". Borneo Bulletin. 16 December 2006. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Brunei DPMM FC Come Back To Tie Pulau Pinang". Borneo Bulletin. 21 December 2006. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  12. ↑ "New striker import". Borneo Bulletin. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  13. ↑ "LIGA SUPER 2007". Utusan Online. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  14. ↑ "ABDB Win B-League Cup". Borneo Bulletin. 25 January 2007. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  15. ↑ "ABDB Hit Three Goals Past QAF FC". Borneo Bulletin. 3 January 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  16. ↑ "Brunei 2007/08". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  17. ↑ "Indera FC grab winning goal against MS ABDB". The Brunei Times. 23 April 2008. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  18. ↑ "MS ABDB 2nd Runner-up at DSTGroup Brunei Premier League". Public Relations Unit, Ministry of Defence of Brunei Darussalam. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  19. ↑ "MS ABDB FA Cup Silver Winner". Public Relations Unit, Ministry of Defence of Brunei Darussalam. 31 August 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  20. ↑ "Let the new BPL I season begin!". The Brunei Times. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  21. ↑ "QAF FC are $12,000 richer". The Brunei Times. 6 June 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  22. ↑ "QAF FC juara Piala Liga Premier Brunei DST Group" (PDF). Pelita Brunei. 18 November 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  23. ↑ "Qaf - BPL 1 Champions !". The Brunei Times. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  24. ↑ "QAF's series of 34 matches unbeaten in the Brunei Premier League". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  25. ↑ "FA Cup - ABDB deny QAF FC history". The Brunei Times. 18 April 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  26. ↑ "People smuggling, prostitution couple facing 30 years , $1m fine if found guilty - The BT Archive". btarchive.org. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  27. ↑ guan. "Couple jailed for people smuggling, sexual exploitation - Borneo Bulletin Online". borneobulletin.com.bn. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  28. ↑ "Cameroonian's appeal dismissed - Borneo Bulletin Online". borneobulletin.com.bn. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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