Lesly Malouda

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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) Left-back [2]
Youth career
1989–1998 ASC Le Geldar
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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)
Total190(5)
International career
2012 French Guiana 6 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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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. [3]

Senior

Malouda began his professional career with RC Lens [4] 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. [5] In August 2006, after his return to Lens, he was demoted to the reserves. [6]

After one year with the B team, he left for Toulouse Fontaines Club in July 2007. [7] 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. [8] He remained with the club for five years but only made 56 appearances, including five matches during the 2011–12 season, when the club competed in Ligue 1. [9] In January 2014, having not featured in any matches for the first team during the first half of the season (with the club now back in Ligue 2), the club announced that his contract had been terminated by mutual agreement. [10]

International career

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. [11]

Personal life

Lesly is the brother of former Chelsea winger Florent Malouda. [12]

References

  1. ↑ foot-national.com. "Lesly Malouda joueur de Libre/Etranger".
  2. ↑ Daval, Marine (17 August 2011). "football. Ligue 1. Le défenseur latéral a joué son premier match de la saison contre Toulouse.. Malouda, le patient dijonnais" [football. Ligue 1. The full-back played his first match of the season against Toulouse... Malouda, the Dijon patient]. Le Bien Public (in French). Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Lesly MALOUDA".
  4. ↑ Football.fr. "Football.fr". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.
  5. ↑ Pelletier, Bertrand. "Lesly MALOUDA".
  6. ↑ Lesly Malouda: "Florent ne me veut pas à l’OL" Archived 13 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "26 Lesly MALOUDA". Espace Football 2.0 (in French). Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  8. ↑ foot-national.com. "Mercato Ligue 2 - Tableau des transferts Ligue 2 avec foot national".
  9. ↑ "Lesly Malouda – Player profile". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  10. ↑ Baumer, Martin (15 January 2014). "Football: Guianese player Lesly Malouda in search of a club". La 1ère (in French). Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  11. ↑ "Lesly Malouda Caps/Goals". Caribbean Football Database. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  12. ↑ Recrues


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