Kamal Bafounta

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Kamal Bafounta
Personal information
Full name Kamal Bafounta Ortega [1]
Date of birth (2002-01-08) 8 January 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Vénissieux, France [1]
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Lorient B
Youth career
2008 Vénissieux
2008–2012 Saint-Priest
2012–2013 Lyon
2013–2017 FC Lyon
2017–2018 Nantes
2018–2021 Borussia Dortmund
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2022 Borussia Dortmund II 3 (0)
2022– Lorient B 22 (1)
2023–2024 → Cholet (loan) 9 (0)
International career‡
2017 France U16 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 July 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:25, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Kamal Bafounta Ortega (born 8 January 2002) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lorient B.

Contents

Club career

On 21 September 2023, Bafounta joined Cholet on loan. [2]

International career

Bafounta was born in France to a Congolese father and Spanish mother. [3] He holds both French and Spanish nationalities. [4] He has represented France at under-16 level. [5]

Career statistics

Club

As of 24 July 2021 [6]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Borussia Dortmund II 2021–22 3. Liga 10––0010
Career total1000000010
Notes

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    References

    1. 1 2 3 Kamal Bafounta at WorldFootball.net
    2. ↑ "KAMAL BAFOUNTA EST ROUGE ET NOIR !" [KAMAL BAFOUNTA IS RED AND BLACK!] (in French). Cholet. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
    3. ↑ "Vénissieux - RENCONTRE. La future pépite du foot français sera-t-elle vénissiane ?". www.leprogres.fr.
    4. ↑ "Kamal Bafounta -". unfp.org. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
    5. ↑ Kamal Bafounta at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)
    6. ↑ Kamal Bafounta at Soccerway
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