Roger Milla
Roger Milla was born in Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon on May 20th, 1952 and is the Soccer Player. At the age of 71, Roger Milla biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Albert Roger Miller (born 20 May 1952), known as Roger Milla, is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a forward.
He was one of the first African players to be major stars on the international stage.
He played in three World Cups for the Cameroon national team. He achieved international stardom at 38 years old, an age at which most forwards have retired, by scoring four goals at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
He helped Cameroon become the first African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
Four years later, at the age of 42, Milla became the oldest goalscorer in World Cup history by scoring against Russia in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.Milla is also remembered for his trademark goal celebration of running to the corner flag and performing a dance.
In the years that have followed, he has been recognised as a pioneer of the many unconventional and imaginative goal celebrations seen since then.
In 2004 he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
In 2007, the Confederation of African Football named Milla the best African player of the previous 50 years.
Club career
When he was 11, Milla's father worked on the railways and the family moved to Douala.
He made his Eclair de Douala debut at the age of 15, in the Cameroonian second division. He became the Cameroonian schools high jump champion two years ago, aged 17.
He later appeared for Léopard Douala and later Tonnerre Yaoundé.
He was lured by the French club Valenciennes to Europe in 1977. In 28 league games over two seasons, he scored 6 goals. He appeared in 17 league games in a season in 1979.
In 113 league appearances for the first team, he played for Bastia for 35 goals in 35 goals. He then moved to Saint-Etienne in 1984, scoring 31 times in 59 league games. After graduating from French football, he played for Montpellier from 1986 to 1989, where he later went on to become a member of the club's coaching staff.
Milla left France in 1987 and returned to Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, where he competed for JS Saint-Pierroise. He then returned to Tonnerre in Cameroon for four seasons. He retired from playing in Indonesia from 1994 to 1996.
International career
Milla was capped 77 times for the national team, scoring 43 goals. Milla made his first appearance for Cameroon in 1973 against Zaire in a World Cup qualifier. He was a member of Cameroon's squad at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, with a goal disallowed against Peru in their first match. Cameroon lost three draws from their three first-round games. He was in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, two years later.
Milla retired from international football at the age of 36 in 1988 with a jubilee in Cameroon. However, he got a phone call from Cameroon Paul Biya, who begged with him to come out of international service and rejoin the national team in 1990. He accepted and traveled with the Indomitable Lions to Italy for the 1990 World Cup, where he would make a splash.
Milla, 38, emerged as one of the tournament's best stars. He scored four goals in Italy, culminating each one with a dance around the corner banner, which has become a common goal celebration ever since. In Cameroon's second game, two of his goals were against Romania, and two more came in extra time against Colombia in the last 16 to advance Cameroon to the quarterfinals, the furthest an African team had ever advanced at the World Cup. Milla played his super-sub legend in the second half of Cameroon's trailing 1–0 and drawing a penalty before setting up a goal for Ekeke and giving them a 2–1 lead and winning 3–2 after extra time. He was named African Footballer of the Year again this year, thanks to his success in Italy.
Colombia's second goal celebrations in the world became a hit in advertisements like the 2010 World Cup Coca Cola.
Milla qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup for the first time since being the oldest player to participate in a World Cup until the 2014 tournament, when Colombia's Faryd Mondragón faced Japan in a group stage match against Japan, who was 43 years old and three days old, a new record. Essam El Hadary beat Mondragon's record in turn in 2018. Cameroon were disqualified in group stages, but Milla scored a goal against Russia, tying for the oldest goalscorer in a World Cup tournament, beating the record set in 1990. In December 1994, he made his last foreign appearance in a friendly against South Africa.
Post-playing career
He is now an itinerant ambassador for African causes. In 2004, he was invited to the FIFA 100, a list of the top living footballers chosen by Pelé in conjunction with FIFA's centennial celebrations.