Lesly Marguerite Malouda (born 16 November 1983) is a French Guianan former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Youth

Born in

Kourou Kourou (; ) is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It ...

, French Guiana, Malouda played football in his teenage years for the

French Guiana French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west ...

club ASC Le Geldar and visited the Collége Henri Agrande in Kourou.

Senior

Malouda began his professional career with

RC Lens Racing Club de Lens (), commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply as Lens, is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the department of Pas-de-Calais. The club's nickname, ''Les Sang et Or'' (), comes from i ...

being promoted to the

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team in summer 2004. After eight games in his first season was loaned out by Lens and joined for

Istres Istres (; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture. Location I ...

for the 2005–06 season playing 26 games scoring two goals. In August 2006, after his return to Lens, he was demoted to the reserves. After one year with the B team, he left for

Toulouse Fontaines Club Toulouse Fontaines Club was a football club based in Toulouse, France. Their stadium was in the rue des Fontaines, in the Saint-Cyprien suburb of Toulouse. The club was dissolved in 2016 as part of a merger with ''Toulouse Saint-Jo Football SC'' ...

in July 2007. After one year with the club he joined

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in August 2008. On 17 July 2009,

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

signed Malouda on a free transfer. 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. 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

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), the club announced that his contract had been terminated by mutual agreement.

International career

Malouda made his international debut for French Guiana, his region of birth, on 6 September 2012 in a friendly against

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. He was part of French Guiana's squad for the 2012 Caribbean Championship.

Personal life

Lesly is the brother of former Chelsea winger

Florent Malouda Florent Johan Malouda (born 13 June 1980) is a French football coach and former professional player who played as a left winger. Born in French Guiana, he represented both France and French Guiana at the international level. Malouda spent most ...

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* 1983 births Living people People from Kourou French men's footballers French Guianan men's footballers French Guiana men's international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players RC Lens players Istres FC players Toulouse Fontaines Club players Dijon FCO players French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain 21st-century French sportsmen {{FrenchGuiana-footy-bio-stub