Gaël Kakuta is the primary Lensois and the primary Congolese participant to be named the perfect African participant within the French Soccer Championship (Ligue 1). The 29-year-old midfielder says he’s happy with a season with RC Lens that received him the Marc-Vivien Foé Award given by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24.
Gaël Kakuta, what does this trophy for greatest African participant within the French Soccer Championship (Ligue 1) characterize to you?
Gaël Kakuta: It is a pleasure as a result of it is my first particular person trophy. I take it with nice satisfaction. It is a superb season for all of us and I am rewarded for it.
You’re the primary Lensois and the primary Congolese reader to win the Marc-Vivien Foé Prize. Is it an further pleasure?
Precisely! Particularly because it was in Lens, the place I received my first trophies after I was younger. If I’m rewarded right this moment, I would like to thank those that voted for me. […] It’s a pleasure to have the Marc-Vivien Foé Award within the RC Lens jersey and to additionally characterize my nation.
You end forward of the Algerian Andy Delort (Montpellier) and the Zimbabwean Tino Kadewere (Olympique Lyonnais). Did the nice season for RC Lens weigh lots within the vote, in your opinion?
Sure, as a result of we have now proven excellent issues, collectively and individually. Being chosen in entrance of those gamers – two gamers that I like lots by the best way – is a supply of pleasure.
Your Lens teammate, Ivorian midfielder Seko Fofana, was certainly one of the eleven finalists in this Marc-Vivien Foé Prize 2021. Would he have deserved to be on the rostrum?
Seko, he is a monster! Sadly, he couldn’t begin the season. I believe it should have performed a bit. However for me he was certainly one of the favorites and he would simply have gotten his place in the highest three.
This trophy is called after Marc-Vivien Foé, a former RC Lens participant. What does this former Cameroonian midfielder characterize to you?
To be sincere, I used to be younger when he performed on RC Lens. I received to know him primarily via video video games and the Cameroon workforce. However he was a Lensois and an incredible African participant. It’s inevitably an further pleasure to obtain this title.
We bear in mind Marc-Vivien Foé as a mannequin participant, all the time stuffed with braveness. What model do you hope to depart on the planet of soccer?
(He thinks) I had a hell of an expertise, as an instance. I have been roughly all over the world (he laughs). I would like a decided and courageous participant to bear in mind.
Interview by RC Len’s communication service,
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