AS Saint-Etienne : A player from SM Caen dreams of Geoffroy-Guichard | ASSE News

Prince Oniangué (32) still has one year of contract at Stade Malberbe in Caen in Ligue 2. However, he hopes to return to Ligue 1. He especially dreams of facing the ASSE at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.

ASSE: Oniangué “dreams of the exceptional atmosphere of the cauldron”

Former player of Stade Rennais, Stade de Reims or Angers SCO in Ligue 1, Prince Oniangué dreams of reliving the confrontations on the grounds of Ligue 1, especially to face ASSE in an overheated atmosphere at Stade Geoffroy- Guichard. The midfielder and Stade Malberbe in Caen signed a large victory over Rodez AF (4-0), during the first day of Ligue 1 played last weekend. Suddenly, he is impatient to play again in the elite and find the crazy animation in the enclosure of AS Saint-Étienne.

“What I hope is to find the elite. I have this flame in me for having experienced these exciting matches, these atmospheres. This is exceptional “, he told West France. “We have to give ourselves the means to get there. The current Ligue 2, I call it a mini Ligue 1, because many clubs have remained in the elite for a long time… We dream of a final at the Stade de France, at the Chaudron de Saint-Étienne… When we have tasted that , we want to go back ”, expressed Prince Oniangué.

Long experience in L1 and L2

In addition to SRFC, Tours FC (Ligue 2), SDR, SC Bastia, Angers SCO and obviously SM Caen, Prince Oniangué was a Wolverhampton player (in Championship) between 2016 and 2018. He is also the English club which had loaned him to Bastia (in Ligue 2 in 2017), then to SCO (in 2018) and finally transferred to Malberbe de Caen in July 2018. Linked to SMC until June 2022, the Congolese international (41 selections for 7 goals scored) is worth 800,000 euros on the transfer market. The player fan of the atmosphere of the ASSE stadium has totaled 158 matches in L1 and 169 in L2.