N'Golo Kanté

N'Golo Kanté
N'Golo Kanté (2018)
Personnel
birthday	March 29, 1991
place of birth	Paris ,  France
size	168 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2010–2012	US Boulogne
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2013	US Boulogne	38 (3)
2013-2015	SM Caen	75 (4)
2015-2016	Leicester City	37 (1)
2016–	Chelsea FC	123 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2016–	France	38 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 14, 2020 2 As of March 25, 2019

N'Golo Kanté (born March 29, 1991 in Paris ) is a French football player . He stands at Chelsea in the Premier League under contract and won in 2018 with the French national team , the World Cup in Russia . Kanté won the English championship with Leicester City in 2016 and Chelsea FC in 2017 . He is considered one of the best defensive midfielders in the world.

Career

societies

Kanté played from 1999 to 2010 for a lower class club from Suresnes before he was accepted into the reserve team of the second division US Boulogne . His first appointment to the professional team came on the last day of the 2011/12 season when he came on as a substitute in a 79th minute defeat by AS Monaco . In the summer of 2012, at the age of 21, he received a contract for the first team, with which he, however, had to compete in the third division from now on; he immediately became a regular player and only missed one game over the course of the year.

At the same time he aroused the interest of the second division SM Caen , who signed him for the 2013/14 season; Due to a release clause, the transfer was free of charge. As before in Boulogne, he was able to fight for a regular place in Caen immediately. He did not miss a single game in his first year and thus made his contribution to the promotion to the top national league achieved in the following year. On August 9, 2014, he made his first division debut in a 3-0 win against FC Évian Thonon Gaillard and was there in the 12th minute as a goal scorer. In the following years, he also took a permanent place in the top league.

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he moved abroad for the first time when he was signed by the English first division club Leicester City . A transfer fee of around eight million euros was due. Kanté was used in 37 games and became English champions with his team.

For the 2016/17 season , Kanté moved to Chelsea . Here he was able to assert himself as a regular player in midfield of the Blues , showed very good performances and was English champion again at the end of the season. On top of that, he was voted Player of the Year by his fellow players and British sports journalists, and six months later he was also named French Footballer of the (Calendar) Year .

National team

Kanté made his debut on March 25, 2016 in a 3-2 win in a friendly against the Netherlands for the French national team when he was substituted on in the second half. Four days later, on his 25th birthday, he was part of the French starting line-up for the first time in an encounter against Russia (4-2) and scored his first goal for the national team in that game.

He was a member of the French squad at the 2016 European Championships in France and was in the starting line-up in the first two games. In the opening game against Romania , he gave the template for the 2-1 winner shortly before the end. In the round of 16 against Ireland he got a yellow card early and was substituted at half-time when the score was 0: 1. Since it was his second warning, he was suspended in the quarter-finals. In the semifinals against Germany he only came on as a substitute in the final quarter of an hour, in the final, which the team lost 1-0 to Portugal , he was not used.

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia , Kanté played as a regular in defensive midfield alongside Paul Pogba . He played all games from the start and was only substituted in the final against Croatia in the 55th minute for Steven Nzonzi , as an early yellow card threatened to send him off. After the 4-2 victory he became world champion with the Équipe Tricolore .

Private life

Kanté's parents came to France from Mali in 1980 , where he and his sister grew up in simple circumstances in Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department . He has a total of eight siblings. In 2002 his father died. In 2018 a brother died. Kanté is considered shy and introverted. It is named after Ngolo Diarra , the king of the kingdom of Bambara . Kanté is a devout and practicing Muslim , but is very reluctant to practice his religion.

According to Football Leaks , one of his previous player agents, whom he has known from Hauts-de-Seine since his youth, is known to the police for forgery, fraud and repeated possession of cannabis. That counselor was sentenced to prison terms for the latter. When Kanté visited the Paris suburb where he grew up in 2017, a family member of this advisor threatened to murder him if Kanté did not switch to one of the advisors proposed by those blackmailers. As of November 2019, he has not separated from this player agent, whose relatives blackmailed him.

successes

National team

• World Champion : 2018
• Vice European Champion : 2016

societies

Leicester City (2015-2016)

• English champion : 2015/16

Chelsea FC (since 2016)

• UEFA Europa League : 2018/19
• English champion : 2016/17
• English cup winner : 2017/18
• English league cup finalist : 2018/19

Awards

• Premier League Player of the Season . 2016/17
• England's Footballer of the Year (Player's Choice) : 2016/17
• England's Footballer of the Year (Journalists' Choice) : 2016/17
• France's Footballer of the Year : 2017
• FIFA FIFPro World XI : 2018
• UEFA Team of the Year : 2018
• PFA Team of the Year (2): 2015/16 , 2016/17
• ESM Team of the Year (2): 2015/16, 2016/17

Web links

• N'Golo Kanté in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kanté on the website of the French association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Par Ariane RiouLe 15 juillet 2018 à 21h19, Modifié Le 16 Juillet 2018 à 11h01: Hauts-de-Seine: le club de N'Golo Kanté, à Suresnes, a vibré pour son champion. July 15, 2018, accessed on July 26, 2019 (Fri-FR). 
2. ↑ N'Golo Kanté: Made in Suresnes. Retrieved July 26, 2019 (French). 
3. ↑ Le FC Mantois engage Yenga , leparisien.fr
4. ↑ Football: N'Golo Kanté , footballdatabase.eu
5. ↑ ^{a b} N'Golo Kanté - player profile , transfermarkt.de
6. ↑ Chelsea FC: Kante signs , July 16, 2016, accessed July 16, 2016.
7. ^ Spiegel Online : Kanté is England's Footballer of the Year , April 24, 2017
8. ↑ List of appearances in the squad on UEFA.com, accessed July 18, 2016
9. ↑ N'Golo Kante: How can Premier League clubs create next star? In: BBC Sport . March 28, 2017 ( bbc.com [accessed July 19, 2018]).
10. ^ ^{A b c} Jean Mikhail: Portrait of N'Golo Kanté: France's secret weapon in midfield . July 5, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed August 9, 2019]).
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e} SPIEGEL ONLINE: France's football star N'Golo Kanté: Is the world champion and Chelsea professional stuck in a criminal milieu? Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Tom Williams: Finding N'Golo Kante: The Men Who Discovered the PFA Player of the Year . In: Bleacher Report . ( bleacherreport.com [accessed July 19, 2018]).
13. ↑ These soccer stars are Muslim from birth. These converted. In: LigaLIVE. October 2, 2018, accessed August 9, 2019 .