Raymond Kalla

Raymond Kalla Koned Nkongo ( born April 22, 1975 in Douala ) is a former football player from Cameroon.

Club career

The central defender played in Cameroon Canon Yaoundé and came in 1995 to Greece. Here he spent three years at Panachaiki before he went to the Spanish first division team FC Extremadura 1998. After his descent into the low ranks, he joined the 2002/03 season to the German Bundesliga club VfL Bochum. Here he completed 77 Bundesliga appearances with six goals. He then moved to 2005/06 season in the Super Lig Sivasspor to. In July 2006 he went back to Cameroon where he played for Union Douala.

VfL Bochum

His start in the Bundesliga he gave on 10 August 2002 in the away game against 1.FC Nuremberg, the Bochum won 3-1. Referee Michael Weiner showed him in this match, the first of 16 yellow cards in the Bundesliga. 26 games, he completed his first season; 28 followed in the second season. On 8 November 2003 he scored his first goal with a header for the Westphalia; he meant just before half-time 3-0 The score in a 4-0 win against 1 FC Cologne. In the season 2004/ 05 was followed by 23 missions with five goals and to the two games in the UEFA Cup against Standard Liege. On 5 March 2005, he made ​​the Ruhr Stadium at 0-2 against Schalke 04 his last game for Bochum. He " got off to a bad day " and was replaced in the 66th minute against Martin Meichelbeck. Also for the rest of the season games took place Meichelbeck Kallas in central defense.

National

For Cameroon Kalla was at three World Championships in use. In the 1994 World Cup in the USA, he wore the jersey with the number 13, his first game was the 2-2 draw against Sweden. Even in the defeats against Brazil and Russia, he was 90 minutes on the court.

In France in 1998, he was one with the number 5 to the Cameroon squad. He graduated from the first game ( 1-1 against Austria ) complete; in the second match against Italy ( 0:3 ), he was shown the red card.

2002 Japan and Korea, he failed as a regular player with the Indomitable Lions under coach Winfried Schaefer in Group E. A 1-1 draw against Ireland and a 1-0 win against Saudi Arabia was followed by a 0-2 defeat against Germany.

He also starred in the Confederations Cup in 2001, the Cameroonian squad and participated in six African Championship; in Ghana and Nigeria in 2000 and Mali in 2002 the team became African champions. In this competition, he scored his only Turniertor for national team: on 28 January 2000, it was the 1-0 lead in a 3-0 victory against Ivory Coast.

Tax evasion

On 17 January 2008 Kalla was sentenced by the district court of Bochum to a prison term of one year and eight months, which was suspended. The court found him guilty of attempted and completed tax evasion guilty. Kalla was added in the process that he had received 640,000 euros from VfL Bochum between 2002 and 2004, he did not taxed. The money had been declared by Kallas statement as a premium for a player consultant. The court held that this agreement was a sham contract for concealing additional payments ( " black money ").

In connection with this incident, the public prosecutor's office against employees of the VfL ​​.

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