Frédéric Kanouté
Kanouté in a press conference in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frédéric Oumar Kanouté | ||
| Date of birth | 2 September 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2000 | Lyon | 40 | (9) |
| 2000–2003 | West Ham United | 84 | (29) |
| 2003–2005 | Tottenham Hotspur | 60 | (15) |
| 2005–2012 | Sevilla | 209 | (89) |
| 2012–2013 | Beijing Guoan | 38 | (12) |
| Total | 427 | (152) | |
| National team | |||
| 1998–1999 | France U21 | 6 | (1) |
| 2004–2010 | Mali | 39 | (23) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Frédéric Oumar Kanouté (born 2 September 1977) is a retired Malian professional footballer who played as a striker for several top-tier clubs in Europe, enjoying his greatest success with La Liga side Sevilla FC. Kanouté was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year, the first player born outside Africa to win the award.
Kanouté began his career with Lyon in France before moving to West Ham of the Premier League in 2000. After a spell at their London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Kanouté moved to Spanish club Sevilla where he won two consecutive UEFA Cups in 2006 and 2007 in addition to various other European and domestic honours and remains the club's highest-scoring foreign player. He joined Beijing Goan in June 2012.
Despite appearing 16 times for France U-21, Kanouté was a member of the Malian squad which reached the semi-finals of the 2004 African Cup of Nations and also featured in their selections for the tournament in 2006 and 2010. His international career ended in 2010 with a total of 39 caps and 23 goals.
Kanouté's talents as a striker were first noticed by his local team, Olympique Lyonnais, and he joined them as an apprentice in 1997. He made his debut in the Intertoto Cup against Polish side Odra Wodzisław.
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