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Rémy Cabella

Rémy Joseph Cabella (born 8 March 1990) is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lille.

Rémy Cabella
Cabella with Krasnodar in 2021
Personal information
Full name Rémy Joseph Cabella
Date of birth (1990-03-08) 8 March 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Ajaccio, France
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Lille
Number 10
Youth career
2000–2004 Gazélec Ajaccio
2004–2009 Montpellier
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2014 Montpellier 97 (24)
2010–2011 → Arles-Avignon (loan) 17 (3)
2014–2016 Newcastle United 31 (1)
2015–2016 → Marseille (loan) 34 (5)
2016–2018 Marseille 32 (3)
2017–2018 → Saint-Étienne (loan) 26 (7)
2018–2019 Saint-Étienne 34 (8)
2019–2022 Krasnodar 49 (14)
2022 Montpellier 5 (0)
2022– Lille 71 (8)
International career‡
2011–2012 France U21 17 (4)
2011– Corsica 6 (1)
2014 France 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 May 2024

He had two spells each at Montpellier and Saint-Étienne, winning the Ligue 1 title with the former in 2011–12. He also represented Arles-Avignon, Marseille and Lille in the top flight, making over 200 total appearances and scoring over 50 goals. He also played for Newcastle United in the Premier League and Krasnodar in the Russian Premier League.

Cabella earned four caps for France in 2014, and was chosen for the year's World Cup.

Early life

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Rémy Joseph Cabella[2] was born on 8 March 1990[3] in Ajaccio, Corsica,[4] to an Italian father and a Corsican mother.[5] He started his youth career at local club Gazélec Ajaccio before joining Montpellier's academy at the age of 14, winning the 2009 Coupe Gambardella with their under-19 team.[6]

Club career

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Montpellier

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Cabella playing for Montpellier in 2012

Cabella signed a three-year professional contract with Montpellier in July 2009. He injured the cruciate ligament in his right knee during training in September and was ruled out for the season.[6]

He was sent on loan to Arles-Avignon for the 2010–11 Ligue 1 season, where he scored three goals in 17 league appearances.[citation needed]

Cabella signed a two-year extension to his contract in January 2012, which would keep him at the club til 2016. In a 1–0 win over Brest on 4 February 2012, Cabella struck a volley from a cross that struck the back of his teammate Geoffrey Dernis and went into the opposition's net for a goal. Cabella was credited with the assist.[7] On 11 February 2012, in a 3–0 victory over AC Ajaccio, Cabella scored with a right-footed shot across Ajaccio's goalkeeper after being put away by Olivier Giroud.[8] On 20 May 2012, Montpellier won the league title for the first time in its history.[citation needed]

In May 2014, Cabella announced his intention to leave the club in the summer.[9]

Newcastle United

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On 13 July 2014, Cabella signed for Premier League club Newcastle United on a six-year contract, for a reported £8 million transfer fee.[10] He made his competitive debut on 17 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–0 defeat at home to Manchester City, playing the full 90 minutes.[11] Cabella's only Newcastle goal came on 31 January 2015, opening a 3–0 win away at Hull City.[12] He was subsequently awarded Player of the Month for January by Newcastle fans.[13] During his time with Newcastle, Cabella made 34 appearances in all competitions, scoring just one goal.[14]

Marseille

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On 19 August 2015, Cabella returned to France, signing with Ligue 1 side Marseille on a season-long loan as part of a deal that saw Florian Thauvin transfer to Newcastle.[15] He made his club debut on four days later, starting in the 6–0 Ligue 1 home victory over Troyes.[16] he scored his first goal for Marseille on 3 December in a 1–0 win over Rennes, and another goal three days later in a 2–2 draw with his former team Montpellier.[17]

Although Cabella's loan spell at Marseille had ended, he spent the pre-season with the French club, appearing in some friendly matches. On 11 August 2016, Newcastle announced that Cabella's loan switch to Marseille had become permanent ahead of the 2016–17 season.[18] On 1 March 2017, he scored two goals to level the score twice (to 2–2 and 3–3) in a 4–3 extra-time home loss to Monaco in a 2016–17 Coupe de France round of 16 match.[19]

Saint-Étienne

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On 31 August 2017, Cabella joined Saint-Étienne on a season-long loan.[20] He made his debut ten days later, scoring in the first minute of a 1–1 home draw with Angers.[21]

On 16 August 2018, Cabella joined Saint-Étienne permanently on a four-year contract.[22] The following 5 May, he scored a goal and provided two assists in the 3–2 away win over Monaco,[23] reaching 50 Ligue 1 goals.[24]

Krasnodar

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2019–20 season

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Cabella playing for FC Krasnodar in 2020

On 25 July 2019, Cabella joined Russian club FC Krasnodar for a fee of €12 million.[25] He made his debut on 3 August in a 1–1 draw at FC Zenit St Peterburg, being substituted for Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov after 58 minutes.[26] On 21 August 2019, in the first leg Champions League qualifier against Olympiacos, he suffered an ACL rupture.[27]

Cabella missed almost a year during recovery, making his return appearance for Krasnodar on 1 July 2020 in a match against FC Rostov. The 2019–20 Russian Premier League season had been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.[28]

2020–21 season

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Cabella scored twice in Krasnodar's first league game of the season, a 3–0 victory at FC Ufa on 9 August 2020.[29]

In September, Cabella scored in each leg of Krasnodar's play-off round 4–2 aggregate win against PAOK for qualification to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.[30][31] It was the first time ever that the club had qualified for the group stage of Europe's premier knock-out competition.[32] Cabella missed the first group stage match of the competition away to Rennes on 20 October as he was forced to self-isolate following a positive COVID-19 test.[33] He scored his side's goal in their 1–1 draw away to group winners Chelsea in the final match of the group stage, having already been parachuted to the Europa League Round of 32.[34]

2021–22 season

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On 3 March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Krasnodar announced that Cabella's contract was suspended and he will not train with the team, but it was not terminated and remained valid.[35] Six days later, it was terminated by mutual consent.[36]

Return to France

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On 6 April 2022, Cabella returned to Montpellier until the end of the season.[37] On 10 July, Lille announced his arrival on a free transfer, on a one-year contract, with an option to extend for another year.[38]

International career

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France U21

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Cabella playing for France U21 in 2011

Between 2010 and 2012, Cabella played seventeen times for the France national under-21 football team, scoring four goals.[citation needed]

Corsica

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As well as the French national side, Cabella also qualified for the non-FIFA affiliated team of Corsica. He made his début for the team in 2011 against Bulgaria.[39] He was again called up to the Squadra Corsa in 2016, while at Marseille, to face the Basque Country.[40] He started the match, playing the full 90 minutes.[41] On 2 June 2019, he equalised in a 1–1 draw away to neighbours Sardinia.[42]

France

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Cabella was named on the stand-by list for France's 2014 FIFA World Cup squad.[43] He made his international debut coming on as an 80th-minute substitute for Yohan Cabaye in a 4–0 friendly match win over Norway on 28 May 2014 at the Stade de France.[44] On 6 June, Cabella replaced the injured Franck Ribéry in France's 2014 World Cup squad.[45] The team lost to Germany in the quarter-finals on 4 July, and Cabella did not enter the field of play in all of their five matches in that tournament.[46]

After signing for Newcastle, Cabella picked up three more caps for France in September and October 2014, in friendly matches against Spain, Serbia, and Armenia.[47]

Style of play

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A profile of Cabella by Simon Osborn of Metro in 2013 described him as a "fast, agile and creative midfielder who can play on the wing or behind a striker".[48]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 24 November 2024[49][50]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Arles-Avignon (loan) 2010–11 Ligue 1 17 3 1 0 0 0 — 18 3
Montpellier 2011–12 Ligue 1 29 3 4 3 1 0 — 34 6
2012–13 Ligue 1 31 7 2[a] 0 2 1 6[b] 0 41 8
2013–14 Ligue 1 37 14 3 0 1 0 — 41 14
Total 97 24 9 3 4 1 6 0 116 28
Newcastle United 2014–15 Premier League 31 1 1 0 2 0 — 34 1
Marseille (on loan) 2015–16 Ligue 1 34 5 4 0 1 1 6[c] 0 45 6
Marseille 2016–17 Ligue 1 29 2 3 4 0 0 — 32 6
2017–18 Ligue 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1[c] 0 4 1
Total 66 8 7 4 1 1 7 0 81 13
Saint-Étienne (on loan) 2017–18 Ligue 1 26 7 1 0 1 0 — 28 7
Saint-Étienne 2018–19 Ligue 1 34 8 2 2 1 0 — 37 10
Total 60 15 3 2 2 0 0 0 65 17
Krasnodar 2019–20 Russian Premier League 9 2 0 0 — 3[b] 0 12 2
2020–21 Russian Premier League 24 8 1 0 — 7[d] 3 32 11
2021–22 Russian Premier League 16 4 2 0 — — 18 4
Total 49 14 3 0 0 0 10 3 62 17
Montpellier 2021–22 Ligue 1 5 0 — — — 5 0
Lille 2022–23 Ligue 1 32 7 3 0 — — 35 7
2023–24 Ligue 1 29 1 0 0 — 11[e] 2 40 3
2024–25 Ligue 1 10 0 0 0 — 6[b] 0 16 0
Total 71 8 3 0 — 17 2 91 10
Career total 396 73 27 9 7 2 40 5 470 89
  1. ^ Includes appearance in Trophée des Champions
  2. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  3. ^ a b Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  4. ^ Five appearances and three goals in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

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As of match played 14 October 2014[47]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
France 2014 4 0
Total 4 0

Honours

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Montpellier Youth

Montpellier

References

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