Blaise N'Kufo

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Blaise N'Kufo

Full name	Blaise Isetsima N'Kufo
Date of birth	May 25, 1975
Place of birth	Kinshasa, DR Congo
Height	186 cm
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	FC Twente
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-present	Lausanne Sports FC Echallens Al-Arabi Sports Club Yverdon-Sport FC Lausanne Sports Grasshoppers Zürich FC Lugano Grasshoppers Zürich FC Lugano FC Lucerne 1. FSV Mainz 05 Hannover 96 FC Twente	2 (0) 16 (9) 12 (6) 35 (12) 34 (18) 13 (2) 11 (10) 5 (2) 10 (4) 19 (7) 42 (20) 9 (0) 112 (58)
National team²
	Switzerland	7 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 4, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of August 22, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Blaise Isetsima N'Kufo (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 a 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."

[edit] Trivia

He was the first black player in the Swiss national team.
N'Kufo likes books about philosophy and psychology, he also enjoys playing chess.

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FC Twente - Current Squad
1 Boschker \| 2 Wielaert \| 3 Braafheid \| 4 Zomer \| 5 Viðarsson \| 6 Brama \| 7 Touma \| 8 Bakircioglü \| 9 N'Kufo \| 10 Gerk \| 12 Heubach \| 13 Visser \| 14 Wilkshire \| 15 Schuurman \| 16 Paauwe \| 17 Bakkal \| 20 Aissati \| 22 Wellenberg \| 23 Gerritsen \| 24 El Ahmadi \| 25 Oude Kamphuis \| 27 Engelaar \| 29 Zijler \| 30 Kleizen \| Coach: Rutten