Pedro Kamata

Pedro Kamata (born 6 September 1981) is a former professional footballer who played as a winger. Born in Angola, he represented France at youth level before making his DR Congo national team debut in 2010.

Pedro Kamata
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-09-06) 6 September 1981
Place of birth Luanda, Angola
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
1997–2002 Auxerre
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002 Groningen 1 (0)
2003 Clermont 17 (2)
2003 Châteauroux 13 (1)
2004 Clermont 10 (1)
2004–2005 Châteauroux 30 (3)
2005–2007 Legnano 82 (5)
2008–2010 Bari 60 (1)
2010–2011 Siena 15 (0)
2011–2012 Yzeure 23 (3)
2012–2015 Moulins 72 (3)
Total 323 (19)
International career
2001 France U20[1] 1 (0)
2010 DR Congo[2] 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Kamata was born in Luanda, Angola. He started his career at Auxerre. He then joined FC Groningen in the summer of 2002, only to return to Ligue 2 in order to join Clermont Foot in January 2003. He then kept playing in Ligue 2 until he was signed by Legnano of Serie C2 in 2005. He helped the club to win promotion to Serie C1 in the summer of 2007. During the 2007–08 Serie C1 season, he was signed by Bari of Serie B, and went on to make his debut at Serie A level in 2009.

In 2010, he was sold to A.C. Siena in co-ownership deal for €500,000. Siena also signed Filippo Carobbio for €500,000. The deals was part of Abdelkader Ghezzal's transfer to Bari.

In June 2011 Siena and Bari made a pure player swap, which Carobbio, Kamata and Nicola Belmonte joined Siena outright, and Ghezzal joined Bari outright.

In August 2011 he mutually terminated the contract with Siena.[3] He joined AS Yzeure in September 2011[4]

International career

Between 1996 and 2000, he played 29 matches and scored 6 goals for France U16, U17, U18 and U19 teams.[5]

In 2001, he played one game for the France national under-20 team in a friendly match against Finland.

In 2004, he was named in DR Congo squad for 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification.[6] But at that time he was too old to switch nationality.[7] Instead, Makiadi Kamata played his first and last match for DR Congo, which there is unknown connection with the two "Kamata".

In 2006, he was named by Angola coach Luís Gonçalves for the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations held in Egypt, but was unable to obtain the necessary clearance from FIFA for a switch in national allegiance.[8]

However, in 2010, he was able to play for DR Congo in a friendly match against Saudi Arabia.[9] It is because FIFA abolished the age limit of age 21 for nationality switch for multi-nationality holders in 2009.

References
  1. FFF
  2. Pedro Kamata at FootballDatabase.eu
  3. "Rescissione del contratto con Kamata". AC Siena (in Italian). 1 August 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  4. "Pédro Kamata, Yzeurien !!!". asyfoot.com. 26 September 2011. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.
  5. France Football spécial bilan, from 1997 to 2000.
  6. "Nonda absent from DR Congo squad". BBC Sport. 30 May 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  7. FIFA Status (2004 edition)
  8. "Angola name new players for CAN". BBC Sport. 11 January 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  9. "Convocazioni nazionali". AS Bari (in Italian). 7 May 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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