N'Golo Kanté
Kanté playing for Chelsea in 2017
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| Full name | N'Golo Kanté | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 29 March 1991 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Central midfielder | ||||||||
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Current team
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Chelsea | ||||||||
| Number | 7 | ||||||||
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| 1999–2010 | JS Suresnes | ||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Boulogne | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 2011–2013 | Boulogne | 38 | (3) | ||||||
| 2013–2015 | Caen | 75 | (4) | ||||||
| 2015–2016 | Leicester City | 37 | (1) | ||||||
| 2016– | Chelsea | 30 | (1) | ||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||
| 2016– | France | 15 | (1) | ||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 March 2017 |
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N'Golo Kanté (born 29 March 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for the English club Chelsea and the France national team.
He made his senior debut at Boulogne and then spent two seasons at Caen, the latter in Ligue 1. In 2015, he joined Leicester City for a fee of £5.6 million and became an integral member of the clubs first ever Premier League win in his only season at the club. The following year, he joined Chelsea for a reported fee of £32 million.
Kanté made his senior international debut for France in 2016. He was included in their squad that finished runners-up at that year's European Championship.
Born in Paris, Kanté began his career at the age of eight at JS Suresnes in the western suburbs of the capital, remaining there for a decade. According to assistant manager Pierre Ville, Kanté remained outside the radar of big teams because of his small stature and selfless style of play. Through the contacts of Suresnes' president in 2010, he joined the reserve team of Boulogne. He made his professional debut in the last game of the Ligue 2 season on 18 May 2012, a 1–2 home defeat for his already relegated team to Monaco, replacing Virgile Reset for the final 11 minutes.
During the 2012–13 season, he played in the third-tier Championnat National, missing only one league game. On 10 August, he scored his first senior goal, the only one in a win over Luzenac at the Stade de la Libération, and he added two more over the campaign.
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