Kenny Tete

Kenny Tete
Kenny Tete (2016)
Personnel
birthday	October 9, 1995
place of birth	Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size	180 cm
position	Right full-back
Juniors
Years	station
	AFC DWS
0000–2005	AVV Zeeburgia
2005-2013	Ajax Amsterdam
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2015	Jong Ajax	51 (2)
2014-2017	Ajax Amsterdam	31 (0)
2017–	Olympique Lyon	53 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–2012	Netherlands U-17	5 (0)
2013-2014	Netherlands U-19	4 (0)
2014	Netherlands U-20	2 (0)
2015–	Netherlands U-21	1 (0)
2015–	Netherlands	13 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 26, 2020 2 As of March 21, 2019

Kenny Tete (born October 9, 1995 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch football player with roots in Mozambique and Indonesia who has been under contract with the first division team Olympique Lyon since the 2017/18 season .

Career

origin

Kenny Tete was born in Amsterdam to a Mozambican father and an Indonesian mother. His father, Miguel Tete, moved to the Netherlands with his family at the age of five during the Mozambican War of Independence and is a former European heavyweight kickboxing champion.

societies

Tete started playing football in the youth department of the AFC DWS and in 2005 moved to the youth academy of Ajax Amsterdam at the age of ten through AVV Zeeburgia , an amateur club from the Amsterdam district of Oost. In the 2011/12 season he played as a right defender in the B1 , the second highest youth league. On July 20, 2012, Ajax Amsterdam signed him and provided him with a contract valid until June 30, 2015. In 2012 he rose with the youth team in A1 , the first youth league; he was not used for the professional team. In the following season he completed his first point games in the first youth league; together with Riechedly Bazoer , with whom he took part in a training camp in Austria last year . He made his debut on June 29, 2013 in a 4-1 win in the friendly against the Dutch fourth division SDC Putten as a substitute for the second half.

On August 5, 2013 (1st matchday) he played his first league game for the second division Jong Ajax, the second team of Ajax Amsterdam, in a 2-0 win at home against SC Telstar ; 50 more point games followed by 2015, in which he already completed point games in the Eredivisie at times. For the 2014/15 season he moved up to the professional team and made his debut on February 5, 2015 (21st match day) in the 0-1 defeat in the home game against AZ Alkmaar with a substitution for Jaïro Riedewald in the 69th minute.

In June 2017, Kenny Tete moved to Olympique Lyon in Ligue 1 for a transfer fee of 4 million euros.

National team

After Tete had already played international matches for the Dutch youth teams of the U-17, U-19, U-20 and U-21 age groups from 2011 to 2015 , he made his debut for the senior national team on October 10, 2015 in the qualifier for the European Championship 2016 in a 2-1 victory against the selection of Kazakhstan .

With the U-19 national team , he took part in the European Championship , which was held in Lithuania from July 20 to August 1, 2013 , played all three group matches and was eliminated from the tournament after the group stage in third place.

Web links

• Kenny Tete in the weltfussball.de database
• Kenny Tete in the soccerway.com database
• Kenny Tete in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ajax-puts-jeugdspeler-Kenny-Tete-vast on ajaxinside.nl (Dutch)
2. ↑ Match report on ajaxf-side (Dutch)
3. ^ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: OL gets Tete from Ajax . July 10, 2017 ( spox.com [accessed July 11, 2017]).