Terence Kongolo (born 14 February 1994) is a professional
footballer
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who plays as a
defender for
Ligue 2 club
Le Havre
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, on loan from club
Fulham. A product of the
Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club (association football), football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names bef ...
youth system, he made his
Eredivisie
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debut for them during the
2011–12 season, remaining there until 2017, when he signed for
Monaco
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.
When playing for Monaco, he struggled to get into the first team, making until three appearances in
Ligue 1 prior to his departure. He joined
Huddersfield Town
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in January 2018, initially on loan, before rejoining them on a permanent transfer. When they were relegated from the
Premier League
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in 2019, Kongolo remained for the first half of the
2019–20 season, before joining Fulham on loan in January 2020, making the deal permanent in October 2020.
Born in Switzerland to Congolese parents, Kongolo was raised in the Netherlands and has represented the
Netherlands national team. He was part of the Netherlands squad that finished third at the
2014 FIFA World Cup.
Early life
Kongolo was born in
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, Switzerland, to Congolese parents Editha and Erik; he moved to the Netherlands when he was four years old and, despite being raised in the Netherlands, he holds Swiss citizenship. He is the eldest of three children: he has two younger brothers:
Rodney, born in 1998, and Fidel.
Club career
Feyenoord
Kongolo joined
Feyenoord
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as an 8-year old. After progressing through the ranks of under-16 and under-17 side, Kongolo then signed his first professional contract with the side in June 2010. A year later, he was promoted to the first team ahead of the 2011–12 season and appeared on the substitute bench, around the same time playing for the reserve side. It wasn't until on 14 April 2012 when he made his debut under manager
Ronald Koeman
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, where he came on as a substitute, in 3–0 win over
Excelsior
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. This turned out to be his only appearance of the season and at the end of the 2011–12 season, he signed a contract extension, keeping him until June 2015.
In the 2012–13 season, Kongolo then made his first league start on 24 August 2012 against
Heracles Almelo following the injury of
Stefan de Vrij
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He began his career at his local club VV Spirit, and debuted as a professional for Fe ...
and the suspension of both
Joris Mathijsen
Joris Mathijsen (born 5 April 1980) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the director of football at Willem II.
Club career
Mathijsen started his football career at SV VOAB in Goirle after he visited a tr ...
and
Bruno Martins Indi
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, where he played the whole game, in a 2–1 win. The following month, on 26 September 2012, he scored his first Feyenoord goal in the second round of the KNVB Cup, in a 3–2 win over
NEC
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and scored again in the third round of KNVB Cup, in a 4–0 win over
XerxesDZB
XerxesDZB is a Dutch football club based in Rotterdam.
History
The club was founded in 1904 as RFC Xerxes and their first regional championship was won in 1907. After a second championship in 1911 the club was promoted to the second class (tweed ...
on 1 November 2012. However, Kongolo received a red card after a second bookable, just 13 minutes after receiving a yellow card, in a 2–2 draw against
Groningen on 7 October 2012. As the 2012–13 season, Kongolo suffered a knee injury that kept him out for the most of the season and upon returning from injury, he played in the reserve for the rest of the season, scoring once against
PSV Eindhoven
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U21 on 2 April 2013. At the end of the 2012–13 season, Kongolo went on to make five appearances for the first-team side.
At the start of the 2013–14 season, Kongolo didn't feature in the first team, as he spent the start of the season, on the reserve side. At the reserve side, he appeared nine times and captained the side on five occasions. It also saw Kongolo switch his shirt number from twenty-five to fifteen. His first appearance came on 29 September 2013 against
ADO Den Haag, coming on as a second half substitute, which saw them win 4–2. After continuously appearing in the reserve side and making two more league appearances by the end of the 2013, Kongolo was then given a handful of first team appearances as a centre-back for the rest of the season, dispatching from
Joris Mathijsen
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Club career
Mathijsen started his football career at SV VOAB in Goirle after he visited a tr ...
. Despite suffering a minor hip injury against
Go Ahead Eagles on 30 March 2014, Kongolo finished the 2013–14 season, making eighteen appearances in all competitions.
Ahead of the 2014–15 season, Kongolo's performance in the World Cup, despite playing once, attracted interests from clubs around Europe, but the club management remained confident of keeping him. On 28 July 2014, it was announced that Kongolo signed a three-year contract with the club, keeping him until 2017 and ending his transfer speculation. After appearing the first two league matches of the season, Kongolo was demoted to the substitute bench for two matches after losing his left-back position to youngster
Miquel Nelom
Miquel Nelom (born 22 September 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left back. Nelom has previously played in his homeland for Excelsior, Feyenoord, Sparta Rotterdam and Willem II, and for Scottish club Hibernian. He repre ...
. Kongolo returned to the first team soon after when he started against
Willem II, which they lost 2–1. From that moment on, Kongolo regained his first team place, mostly playing in the centre-back position, partnering with
Sven van Beek, for the most of the season. Kongolo then set up one of the two goals, in a 2–0 win over
PEC Zwolle
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on 1 November 2014. Despite suffering from a groin injury, Kongolo finished the 2014–15 season, making forty-five appearances in all competitions.
In the 2015–16 season, Kongolo switched number shirt again when he switched from number five to four this time following the retirement of
Joris Mathijsen
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Club career
Mathijsen started his football career at SV VOAB in Goirle after he visited a tr ...
from club football. Kongolo established himself in the first team as the left-back position and started the season well when he set up one of the goals, in a 2–0 win over
Vitesse on 23 September 2015. Since the start of the season, Kongolo was ever-present in the first team until he was suspended for one game for picking his fourth booking this season. After returning to the first team from suspension, Kongolo then signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2018. However, as the 2015–16 season progressed, Kongolo suffered a hamstring injury during the match against
Vitesse and was substituted as a result. After the match, it was announced that Kongolo would be out between four and six weeks. After returning to the first team, Kongolo started in
the final of the KNVB Cup against
Utrecht
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and although he was booked, leading to
Ramon Leeuwin scoring an equaliser, Kongolo helped the side win the KNVB Cup with two goals to one. At the end of the 2015–16 season, Kongolo went on to make thirty-five appearances in all competitions.
Ahead of the 2016–17 season, Kongolo's performance began to attract interests from European clubs, such as,
Sunderland,
Hamburg
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and
Bayer Leverkusen
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but stayed at the club throughout the summer. Kongolo continued to be a first team regular since the start of the 2016–17 season and was involved in the squad that saw Feyenoord make an impressive start, with 12 wins in the row. During their winning streak, he scored his first professional for the side, in a 5–0 win over
Roda
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on 25 September 2016. Elsewhere in the UEFA Europa League, Kongolo helped Feyenoord keep two clean sheets against
Manchester United and
Zorya Luhansk
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, which saw him named as UEFA Team of the Week on Matchday 1 and Matchday 3. However, Kongolo suffered a hamstring injury that kept him out throughout November. After returning to the first team, Kongolo captained the club the first time in his professional career in the quarter-final of the KNVB Cup against Vitesse, which saw them lose 2–0. On 26 February 2017, Kongolo set up one of the goals, in a 2–1 win over
PSV Eindhoven
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to continue their winning form. However, in a 1–0 loss against
Sparta Rotterdam, on 5 March 2017, Kongolo suffered a thigh injury in the first half and was substituted as result. After weeks on the sidelines, Kongolo managed to return to training, but continued to remain on the sidelines throughout March. It wasn't until on 16 April 2017 when he returned to the first team from injury against Utrecht and setting up a goal for
Eljero Elia
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He turned professional at ADO Den Haag and then played for Twente before moving abroad to represent Hamburger SV, Juventus and Werder ...
, in a 2–0 win. Shortly after, he signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2019. Kongolo played the remaining last four matches as a left-back later in the season and helped the club win the league for the first time since 1999. At the end of the 2016–17 season, he went on to make thirty-two appearances and scoring once in all competitions.
Monaco
After much speculation regarding his future at
Feyenoord
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, Kongolo signed a five-year contract with reigning
Ligue 1 champions
Monaco
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, for an undisclosed transfer fee, reported to be in the region of €12 million.
He was handed the traditional number 4 central defender shirt upon his arrival, most recently worn by
Fábio Coentrão
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After starting playing professionally with ...
in the
2015–16 season.
[ After being kept out of the squad for multiple fixtures, Kongolo eventually made his Monaco debut 13 October, in a 3–2 defeat to ]Lyon
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in the domestic competition.
He rarely played for Monaco during his brief tenure, only playing a further two games, both taking place in December (meaning that he missed almost two months of domestic football): a 1–0 win over Angers
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and a 2–1 victory over Rennes. However, he did manage to make a singular appearance in their UEFA Champions League
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campaign, appearing in a 5–2 defeat to Porto
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; as well as a 2–0 win over Caen in the Coupe de la Ligue and a 2–1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain
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in the Trophée des Champions
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.
Huddersfield Town
On 2 January 2018, Kongolo relocated to English football
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, signing for Premier League
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club Huddersfield Town
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on loan until the end of the season, with a view to a permanent transfer on the terms that Huddersfield avoided relegation. He made his debut for the club on 13 January, coming on as a substitute in a 4–1 defeat to West Ham United
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.
Kongolo signed for Huddersfield on a permanent basis on 8 June, for an undisclosed club record fee, as the club prepared for their second season in the Premier League. He made his debut as a permanent player of the Terriers, in a heavy 3–0 defeat to Chelsea
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, receiving a yellow card. Kongolo then went on to score his first ever goal for the club on 4 December, in a 2–1 defeat to Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.
His second season with the club was disappointing for the entire team, they had a managerial change mid-season with Jan Siewert replacing a sacked David Wagner, and the season ended in a bitter relegation, having been sat at the bottom of the table for the majority of the season; their Premier League status was confirmed to end after a 2–0 defeat to Crystal Palace
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, meaning they suffered the joint-earliest relegation alongside Derby County
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in 2008
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.
During the off-season, Kongolo was linked with a return to the Premier League, with Watford
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and divisional newcomers Aston Villa expressing their interests in signing the defender. However, he remained at Huddersfield, playing in 11 league matches before his departure in the winter transfer window.[ On 16 January 2020, Kongolo signed on loan for fellow ]Championship
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club Fulham until the end of the season; the club had also suffered relegation from the Premier League, alongside Huddersfield, in the previous season.
Kongolo was named on the Fulham bench as an unused substitute in their goalless draw against Charlton Athletic
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, before making his debut in a 4-0 FA Cup
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defeat to Manchester City on 26 January 2020. His league debut followed when he played as a substitute in a victory at Blackburn Rovers
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on 8 February 2020, coming off the bench for Josh Onomah
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; he would have played in their previous fixture, though was ruled out of playing against his parent club in Huddersfield. The Blackburn game proved to be his only league appearance for the club as he was ruled out of action for the rest of the season after picking up a foot injury during the game.
Fulham
After his future at Huddersfield Town continued to remain in doubt, Kongolo returned to Fulham, now in the Premier League
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after achieving promotion during Kongolo's loan spell during the second half of the previous league campaign; he joined them on a permanent deal on 16 October 2020, the domestic transfer deadline day, for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around £4 million, potentially rising to £7 million. He made his return from injury on 9 January 2021, appearing in a 2–0 win over Queens Park Rangers
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in the FA Cup
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.
International career
Youth levels
Kongolo was initially eligible to play for the Netherlands
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, Switzerland or DR Congo. After progressing at Netherlands U15 and Netherlands U16, Kongolo was called up by Netherlands U17 for the first time in September 2010 and scored on his debut on 15 September 2010, in a 5–2 win over Germany U17.
Kongolo was then a part of the Netherlands under-17 national team which won European Championship in 2011. During the final of the Under-17 Championship against Germany U17, he scored against them for the second time in his Netherlands U17 career, which saw Netherlands U17 win 5–2. He was also named to the Team of the Tournament. The following month, Kongolo was called up again for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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in Mexico, but was unable to progress in the Group-Stage.
After playing Netherlands U18 briefly around 2012, Kongolo was called up by Netherlands U19 in August 2012 and made his Netherlands U19 debut on 10 September 2012, in a 2–1 win over Scotland U19. Kongolo went on to make ten appearances for the Netherlands U19, including playing three times in the UEFA European Under-19 Championship
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.
Months after playing the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Kongolo was called up by Netherlands U21 for the first time in mid-August 2013. Kongolo made his Netherlands U21 debut on 14 August 2013, in a 2–1 loss against Czech Republic U21. Around the same time, Kongolo made his Netherlands U20 debut, in a 4–0 loss against Germany U20 on 12 October 2013. The following year, on 14 October 2014, Kongolo scored his first Netherlands U21 in the qualification round of UEFA European Under-21 Championship, in a 5–4 loss against Portugal U21.
Senior team
Kongolo's performances for Feyenoord saw him included in senior team manager Louis Van Gaal
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's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. It wasn't until on 17 May 2014 when he made his senior national team debut, in a 1–1 draw against Ecuador
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. After the match, both van Gaal and Kongolo agreed that his performance was sloppy.
Nevertheless, Kongolo was included in the twenty-three man squad in the tournament, where he made one appearance in their final group game after entering as a substitute for Dirk Kuyt in the 89th minute against Chile
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; the Dutch won 2–0. Although making one appearance in the tournament, Netherlands finished third place in the World Cup and for that, he received a bronze medal.
Style of play
Upon signing for Huddersfield Town
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in January 2018, manager David Wagner expressed his pleasure and excitement in the player joining the club, stating, "Terence has qualities that will really suit our style of play. He's athletic and mobile and he plays on the front foot in the way he defends and uses the ball."
Personal life
Outside of football, Kongolo is an avid fan of basketball, especially the NBA.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Feyenoord
* Eredivisie
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: 2016–17
* KNVB Cup: 2015–16
Netherlands
* FIFA World Cup
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third place: 2014
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References
External links
Netherlands U17 stats
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Netherlands U19 stats
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Netherlands U21 stats
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Terence Kongolo
at ''Voetbal International
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1994 births
Sportspeople from the canton of Fribourg
Living people
Footballers from Rotterdam
Dutch footballers
Swiss men's footballers
Association football fullbacks
Association football central defenders
Netherlands youth international footballers
Netherlands under-21 international footballers
Netherlands international footballers
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Dutch people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
Swiss people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
People from Fribourg
Eredivisie players
Ligue 1 players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Ligue 2 players
Feyenoord players
AS Monaco FC players
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Le Havre AC players
Dutch expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Monaco
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in France
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Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
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