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Louis Ngwat-Mahop

Cameroonian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ582669 ↗
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Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop (born 16 September 1987) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for the junior team of Austrian side SCR Altach, combining his playing duties with being responsible for the integration of foreign and young players into the first team of the club. He plays as a forward or a right winger.

He started his career in his hometown's club Dragon Club de Yaoundé before being signed by German giants Bayern Munich in 2006. He played with them for one season, featuring mainly in matches of Bayern Munich II in the Regionalliga Süd. After being released by FC Bayern Munich in the summer of 2007, due to issues that arose with his French passport, he signed for Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg. At first he was assigned to play in the Regionalliga West with the club's reserve squad, Red Bull Salzburg Juniors, but he managed to make it to the first team. In total, Ngwat-Mahop spent three and a half years with the Austrian club, managing to win the Austrian Bundesliga in no less than two occasions. In January 2011 he signed for Super League Greece outfit Iraklis. He played for Karlsruher SC for the 2011–12 season before signing for Rheindorf Altach in 2012.

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Early life and career

Ngwat-Mahop was born in Yaoundé on 16 September 1987, and grew up having Samuel Eto'o as his idol.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Louis Ngwat-Mahop” as cameroonian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2006, 2007, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-09-16. The account is most persuasive where Louis, Ngwat-Mahop and Cameroonian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as cameroonian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q582669. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2006, 2007 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Ngwat-Mahop” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.