Dereck Kutesa

Dereck Kutesa (born 6 December 1997) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger for Belgian club Zulte Waregem on loan from the French club Reims.

Dereck Kutesa
Personal information
Full name Dereck Germano Kutesa
Date of birth (1997-12-06) 6 December 1997
Place of birth Geneva, Switzerland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Zulte Waregem
Number 19
Youth career
0000–2013 Servette
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Servette 19 (0)
2016–2018 FC Basel 4 (0)
2016 → Servette (loan) 0 (0)
2017–2018 → FC Luzern (loan) 11 (1)
2018–2019 St. Gallen 39 (4)
2019– Reims 42 (2)
2021– → Zulte Waregem (loan) 2 (0)
National team‡
2012 Switzerland U-15 3 (0)
2012–2013 Switzerland U-16 6 (1)
2013–2014 Switzerland U-17 12 (0)
2014 Switzerland U-18 1 (0)
2015 Switzerland U-19 5 (0)
2016–2017 Switzerland U-20 9 (1)
2018 Switzerland U-21 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 September 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 October 2018

Club career

Kutesa made his professional debut in the Swiss Super League for FC Basel on 5 March 2017 in a game against FC Vaduz.[1] Under trainer Urs Fischer Kutesa won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the 2016–17 season. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total.[2] They also won the Swiss Cup for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the club's history.[3]

On 14 September 2017, Basel announced that they were loaning out Kutesa to FC Luzern, until the end of the 2017–18 Swiss Super League season, so that he could gain first team playing experience.[4]

On 25 August 2021, he joined Zulte Waregem in Belgium for a season-long loan.[5]

International career

Kutesa is of Angolan descent.[6][7] He participated in the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship with the Switzerland national under-17 football team.

Honours

Basel

References
  1. "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 5 March 2017.
  2. Marti, Casper (2017). "Der Saisonabschluss im Zeitraffer". FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 2019-05-30. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  3. "Swiss football: FC Basel wins 3-0 over Sion in Geneva; police extra vigilant after game". allaboutgeneva.com. 25 May 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  4. FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Dereck Kutesa wechselt leihweise zum FC Luzern". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  5. "Dereck Kutesa gaat ALL-IN voor Essevee" (in Dutch). Zulte Waregem. 25 August 2021.
  6. "FCSG-Spieler Dereck Kutesa: "Basel bleibt Basel, das kann mir niemand nehmen"" (in German).
  7. "Interview Dereck KUTESA" (in French).


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