 He is generally known by his first surname Bikey except between 2011 and 2012 while playing for Burnley, when he decided to officially use his second surname Amougou.He moved to Spain at the age of fifteen to train with Espanyol, before finding the opportunity of first team football in Portugal with Marco in the 2002–03 season.He went on to have brief spells with Paços de Ferreira, Aves, and União de Leiria, before joining Russian club Shinnik Yaroslavl in 2005.