Full name Ladjie Soukouna 2009–2011 Creteil B Position Defender, Midfielder Years Team Height 1.92 m | Role Footballer Name Ladjie Soukouna | |
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Date of birth (1990-12-15) 15 December 1990 (age 25) | ||
Playing position Place of birth Maisons-Alfort, France | ||
Ladjie Soukouna (born 15 December 1990) is a French footballer who can play in defence and midfield. He is a free agent after being released by Plymouth Argyle. Soukouna spent two years playing for the B-team of Créteil.
Career
Soukouna started his career for French Championnat National side US Créteil-Lusitanos. However, he did not make an appearance for the first team, only playing in reserve team matches. On 21 July 2011, he joined Football League Two club Plymouth Argyle on a free transfer after impressing during a pre-season trial. He made his professional debut in a 1–1 draw at Shrewsbury Town on 6 August. Soukouna scored his first goal for Plymouth in a 2–2 draw with Accrington Stanley on 8 October. Soukouna was released by the club on 31 August 2012, having been told by manager Carl Fletcher that he was surplus to requirements earlier in the week. Soukouna retired from professional football after his release and became a full time pet funeral director in Westward Ho!, where he boasts a world record of burying 37 hamsters in one day. Legend has it that Soukouna once fourteen hat-tricks in six games for Cretil, with this proving the defining moment of French footballing history.
In 2008, Zinedine Zidane told BBC Sport in an interview that the then 18-year-old Soukouna would be "the only player I'd want to fill my boots in captaining France".