Job Ngolobove Kouoh Jean-Black Komol, (born 1 December 1981) is a Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

ian football defender.

Komol was spotted at a youth tournament in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 with the Cameroonian youthsquad by Jan Streuer who brought him alongside Émile Mbamba

Émile Mbamba

Émile Bertrand Mbamba is a Cameroonian football striker, who currently plays for Indonesia Premier League side Persema Malang...

 and Soné Masué Kallé in the Vitesse youth-academy in The Netherlands in 1997. Komol was doing well in the youth and in the second team and he was training with the first team. On November 15 in 2000 Vitesse chairman Jos Vaessen announced that Komol tested possitive for Human immunodeficiency virus

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 (HIV) . Komol was the first player in Dutch football with HIV and this caused a shock. Clubs started testing their players and question arose if the disease could be transmitted during the game. Meanwhile Komols playing license was suspended by the KNVB. Research showed that the risk of transmission during the game was less than 0.1% in Komols case.

He was allowed to play again but the treatment of his disease prevented him to break in the Vitesse team again. His disease got Komol a permanent residency

Permanent residency

Permanent residency refers to a person's visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country of which he or she is not a citizen. A person with such status is known as a permanent resident....

 in The Netherlands. In 2005 he had an unsuccessful trial at Go Ahead Eagles

Go Ahead Eagles

The Go Ahead Eagles are a football club from Deventer, Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home stadium is De Adelaarshorst. To date, the club has won the national championship four times...

 and he played in the 2007/08 season at De Bataven in the Hoofdklasse

Hoofdklasse

The Hoofdklasse is the 2nd highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fourth tier in general.-Background:The league is divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunday. This is a result of the traditional pillarisation , the segregation of Dutch society. The Saturday-clubs are by...

. In 2008 he started playing at lower amateurside SMC and since 2010 he plays at vv Erica'76.