Dennis Cagara
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| Dennis Cagara | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dennis Mengoy Cagara | |
| Date of birth | February 19, 1985 | |
| Place of birth | Glostrup, Denmark | |
| Playing position | Left back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | FC Nordsjælland | |
| Number | 3 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2002-2003 2004-2005 2005-2006 2007 2007-present 2008- |
Brøndby IF Hertha BSC Berlin → Dynamo Dresden (loan) Hertha BSC Berlin → FC Nordsjælland (loan) FC Nordsjælland |
7 (0) 8 (0) 28 (2) 0 (0) 18 (1) 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002 2003-2004 2004-2005 2003-2006 |
Denmark U-16 Denmark U-17 Denmark U-18 Denmark U-19 Denmark U-20 Denmark U-21 |
5 (1) 19 (3) 3 (0) 6 (0) 4 (0) 6 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Dennis Mengoy Cagara (born February 19, 1985) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a left-sided defender, at FC Nordsjælland. He has played six games for the Denmark national under-21 football team.
On May 22, 2008 signed a 2-year long contract with FC Nordsjælland, where he is on loan. He will "move" on a Bosman transfer.
Dennis has an older brother, Sunny Cagara, who is a famous magician/entertainer/martial arts teacher.
[edit] Biography
Born in Glostrup, Cagara started playing youth football at Brøndby IF. Here his talent was discovered, and he made his international debut for the Danish under-16 national team in November 2000. He played full time at the 2002 European Under-17 Championship, and went on to play a total 43 games and score five goals for various Danish youth national teams until March 2006.
He made his senior debut for Brøndby in October 2002, in the left defender position. He played seven league games for the club in the 2002-03 Superliga season, and was a part of the Brøndby team which won the 2003 Danish Cup trophy. For the 2003-04 Superliga season, Cagara could not secure himself a place in the starting line-up, and in July 2003, he signed a pre-contract with German club Hertha BSC Berlin. His only game for Brøndby in the 2003-04 season, came against Dinamo Minsk in the 2004 UEFA Cup.
At 18 years of age, he moved abroad to play for Hertha in the winter transfer window of January 2004. He played the last eight games of the 2003-04 Bundesliga season for Hertha, and helped the club avoid relegation. In the next season, Cagara played for Hertha's reserve team, before he was loaned out to Dynamo Dresden in the lower 2nd Bundesliga division in the summer 2005. He spent the entire 2005-06 season at Dresden, playing 28 games and scoring two goals. He suffered an injured Achilles tendon in May, and could not represent Denmark at the 2006 European Under-21 Championship.
He re-entered the Hertha first team squad for the 2006-07 Bundesliga season. His injury recovered slowly, and he did not play any games for Hertha during that season, as Malik Fathi became Hertha's starting left defender. Cagara expressed desire to rejoin Brøndby in November 2006, which Hertha denied in the short term.
A week before the transfer dealine passed, on August 22, 2007, Dennis Cagara agreed a loan to the Copenhagen based club FC Nordsjælland. His explosive and offensive playing style made him a fan favourite and he quickly became a regular starter at the club. Having started the last 6 matches, he scored a brilliant long range half-volley goal against Superliga Champions FC Copenhagen in the 87th minute which gave his side points. The goal was the first FCK had conceded at home in months.
[edit] External links
- Danish national team profile
- (Danish) Brøndby IF profile
- (Danish) Danish League profile
- (German) FussballDaten statistics
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