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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Blaise Isetsima Nkufo | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
| Current team | FC Twente | ||
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of August 22, 2006 | |||
Blaise Isetsima Nkufo (born 25 May 1975 in Kinshasa) is a Swiss soccer player of Congolese (DRC) origin. He currently plays as a striker for FC Twente in the Netherlands. He stated to have found peace and rest at Twente after a nomadic existence career, in 2006 he signed a new contract that keeps him at the club until 2009.
In March 2007 he was asked in an interview for the biggest Dutch football magazine (VI) why Ricardo Cabanas, who only scored one goal in the 2. Bundesliga this season, and Hakan Yakın with seven goals for the Swiss side Young Boys are selected for the national team while he is not. "My average is 15 goals a season for four years long in the Eredivisie. With my Swiss nationality I advertise the country in a positive way. So there has to be another explanation. I can look myself in the mirror without my conscious calling, this doesn't count for Köbi Kuhn and his assistant."
Trivia
- His name is often wrongly spelled N'Kufo.
- He was the first black player in the Swiss national team.
- Nkufo likes books about philosophy and psychology, he also enjoys playing chess.
References
- Interview in the SonntagsZeitung, August 12 2007 (German), Translation: "My name has been spelled wrong for years, even though I keep saying, Nkufo is spelled without apostrophe."
External links
| FC Twente – current squad | |
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