Willy Aubameyang

Willy Aubameyang is one of those names that only football obsessives will recognize, and that is exactly why I find him interesting. He was a defender who, despite being born in France, chose to represent Gabon internationally, and he is the half-brother of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. I keep thinking about what it must be like to share a surname with a superstar striker while carving out your own quieter professional career. At 187 centimeters he had the frame for a defender's job. To me he represents the vast majority of pros whose stories sit in the shadow of more famous relatives, and that perspective deserves a little attention.

Name (English)

Willy Aubameyang

Name (Japanese)

ウィリー・オーバメヤン

Reading

うぃりー・おーばめやん

Born

February 16, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Origin

Paris, France

Height

187 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttp://www.willyaubameyang.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%20Aubameyang
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440409

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.