Lesly Malouda

Lesly Marguerite Malouda (born 16 November 1983) is a French Guianan former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Lesly Malouda
Personal information
Full name Lesly Marguerite Malouda
Date of birth (1983-11-16) 16 November 1983
Place of birth Kourou, French Guiana
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Defender
Youth career
1989–1998 ASC Le Geldar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2004 Lens B 79 (2)
2004–2006 Lens 8 (0)
2005–2006 → Istres (loan) 26 (2)
2006–2007 Lens B 0 (0)
2007–2008 Toulouse Fontaines Club 2 (0)
2008–2009 Atlético Baleares 19 (1)
2009–2014 Dijon 56 (0)
Total 190 (5)
National team
2012 French Guiana 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Youth

Born in Kourou, French Guiana, Malouda played football in his teenage years for the French Guiana club ASC Le Geldar and visited the Collége Henri Agrande in Kourou.[2]

Senior

Malouda began his professional career with RC Lens[3] being promoted to the Ligue 1 team in summer 2004. After eight games in his first season was loaned out by Lens and joined for FC Istres for the 2005–06 season playing 26 games scoring two goals.[4] In August 2006, After his return to Lens, he was demoted to the reserves.[5]

After one year with the B team he left for Toulouse Fontaines Club in July 2007.[6] After one year with the club he joined Atlético Baleares of Mallorca in August 2008. On 17 July 2009, Dijon FCO signed Malouda on a free transfer.[7]

International career

Malouda made his international debut for French Guiana, his place of birth, on 6 September 2012 in a friendly against Suriname. He has since been part of French Guiana's squad for the 2012 Caribbean Championship.[8]

Personal life

Lesly is the brother of former Chelsea winger Florent Malouda.[9]

References
  1. foot-national.com. "Lesly Malouda joueur de Libre/Etranger".
  2. "Lesly MALOUDA".
  3. Football.fr. "Football.fr". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.
  4. Pelletier, Bertrand. "Lesly MALOUDA".
  5. Lesly Malouda: "Florent ne me veut pas à l’OL" Archived 13 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "26 Lesly MALOUDA". Espace Football 2.0 (in French). Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  7. foot-national.com. "Mercato Ligue 2 - Tableau des transferts Ligue 2 avec foot national".
  8. "Lesly Malouda Caps/Goals". Caribbean Football Database. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  9. Recrues


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