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 (age 41)
Place of birth Kourou, French Guiana
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
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)
2005–2006Istres (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)
International career
2012 French Guiana 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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Youth

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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

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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 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 signed Malouda on a free transfer.[7]

International career

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

Personal life

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

References

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  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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