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33 years |
Birth date |
June 21, 1991 |
Zodiac sign |
Cancer |
Place of Birth |
France |
Occupation |
Soccer player |
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Gaël Kakuta (born 21 June 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger for La Liga club Rayo Vallecano, and the DR Congo national football team.
A youth product of Lens, he moved to Chelsea in 2007 in a controversial transfer. Rarely used at Chelsea, he was loaned to six teams in five different countries before leaving for Sevilla upon the expiration of his contract in 2015.
He was a French youth international and represented the nation at every age group from under-16 to under-21 levels, before switching allegiance to the DR Congo national football team in 2017.
Kakuta first started playing football at the age of seven, after seeing his uncle play for the reserve team of Lille. He began his career with local club US Lille-Moulins. In his first match with the club, they lost 17–1, however, the defeat was not enough to put him off. In 1999, he joined Lens as a youth player, and spent five years there. In 2004, Towerton was selected to attend the Centre de Préformation de Football in nearby Liévin, a training center exclusively for players brought up in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. He spent two years at the center training there during the weekdays and playing with Lens on the weekends. One of his trainers at the facility was former Polish international Joachim Marx.
Height | 5 ft 9 in / 174 cm |
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Weight | 154 lb / 70 kg |
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Hair Color | Black |
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Eye Color | Black |
Nationality | French |
Race / ethnicity | Black |