Gaël Kakuta

Gaël Kakuta (2010)

Gaël Kakuta (* 21 June 1991 in Lille ) is a French- Congolese football player at Chelsea is currently under contract but played on loan at Lazio.

Career

Association

Kakuta started in Lille with the football. In 1999 he moved to the youth department of RC Lens. In 2004 he was selected to receive a special funding training of the Centre de preformation de Football in Liévin. For two years he took part in it almost every day, on the weekends, he continued to operate on for Lens.

2007 moved Kakuta in the junior section of the English top clubs Chelsea. DC in his first training sessions and games, he wowed the fans and his teammates, and was awarded after his first season with the Academy Scholar of the Year Award. After 12 goals in 24 appearances for the youth team, he was also elected to the Academy Player of the Year. During the season he also took part in the Chelsea Champions Youth Cup. In the 2008 /09 season, he regularly took part in the training of the first team. In January 2009 he suffered in a friendly match a double ankle fracture and was out for six months. After his recovery, FIFA announced on 3 September 2009 that Kakuta is blocked for a breach of contract when he moved to Chelsea in 2007 for four months and must pay a fine of 780,000 euros. Chelsea all transfer activities were banned until January 2011. In February 2010, the two fines were later lifted.

In the 2009/10 season Kakuta made ​​his debut on 21 November 2009 in the Premier League when he came off the bench in the match against Wolverhampton Wanderers for Nicolas Anelka. On 8 December 2009, he completed against APOEL Nicosia his first appearance in the Champions League. In his third league use 16 October 2010 against Aston Villa he stood for the first time in the starting lineup.

Since he came to only four league appearances in the first half of the 2010/11 season, the coveted by many European top clubs Kakuta was unhappy with his situation and drew a change into account. However, in December 2010, he extended his end of the season expiring contract at Chelsea until 2015.

On 26 January 2011, announced that Kakuta on loan moves to Fulham until the end of the 2010/11 season. His debut for the Whites he was 2 February 2011 against Newcastle United. 3-0 win against Sunderland on 30 April 2011, he scored his first goal in the Premier League.

On August 31, 2011, Chelsea announced that Kakuta will loan up to 31 December 2011 for the Bolton Wanderers. The second half of the season he was loaned to Dijon FCO. His first game in Ligue 1, he completed 28 January 2012 against Olympique Lyon. On August 31, 2012 Kakuta was loaned for a year at Vitesse Arnhem. The loan was later extended for the 2013/14 season. At the turn of 2013/2014 the loan was terminated prematurely. End of January 2014 he was further awarded in the Italian Serie A Lazio at Rome.

National

For the French U- 16 national team, he scored five goals in twelve inserts. He made his debut on 4 October 2007 in the game against Switzerland in the U-17 national team. This was followed by another 13 missions in which he was able to achieve three goals, including some missions with the U-17 European Championship in 2008, in which he could reach the final with his team, which was, however, lost 0-4 against Spain. For the U-18 national team, he played only five times, but was able to achieve three goals.

In 2010 he participated in the U -19 European part of France and was able to win with a 2-1 final victory over Spain the title. With two goals in five games and good performances he was after the tournament with the Golden Player Award as the best player.

On 7 October 2010 Kakuta made ​​his debut in the match against Portugal in the U-20 national team. In the U -20 World Cup 2011 in Colombia he was in the squad of the French and was used in all seven games, but could not generate any results. France failed in the semi-finals to Portugal and eventually finished fourth.

His first game for the French U- 21 team, he completed on October 7, 2011 in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in 2013 against Kazakhstan.

Achievements

Association

National

  • U-19 European Championship: 2010
  • U-17 European runners-up: 2008

Awards

  • Golden Player as the best player of the U-19 European Championships 2010
  • Academy Scholar of the Year 2008
  • Academy Player of the Year 2008
June 21 Fulham F.C. Bolton Wanderers F.C. S.S. Lazio England 2007 Champions Youth Cup 2008–09 Premier League 2009–10 Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Aston Villa F.C. 2010–11 Premier League Newcastle United F.C. Sunderland A.F.C. Olympique Lyonnais 2013–14 Eredivisie Italy 2013–14 Serie A Etrit Berisha Lucas Biglia Stefano Mauri Ederson Honorato Campos Miroslav Klose Giuseppe Biava Federico Marchetti Ogenyi Onazi Cristian Daniel Ledesma Lorik Cana Abdoulay Konko Antonio Candreva
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