Samy Kehli
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Samy Kehli | ||
Date of birth | 27 January 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Saint-Avold, France | ||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Metz | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2010 | Metz | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010– | Metz | 37 | (2) |
2013–2014 | → Excelsior Virton (loan) | 19 | (7) |
2014–2015 | → RFC Seraing (loan) | 31 | (12) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC) |
Samy Kehli (born 27 January 1991) is a French-Algerian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Ligue 2 club FC Metz.
Kehli began his career in the reserve team at Metz, and made his debut in the Championnat de France amateur 2 in the 3–0 home win against Jarville on 9 May 2010. He entered play as a 60th-minute substitute for Mehdi Bousbaa and scored the team's final goal four minutes from time. Kehli made a second substitute appearance three weeks later as Metz won 1–0 away at Pontarlier. He played several more matches for the reserve side during the first half of the 2010–11 campaign. On 29 January 2011 he made his debut for the senior team, coming on as a substitute for Yeni Ngbakoto in the 1–2 defeat away at Troyes. Kehli was then handed his first professional start the following week in the 2–1 away win over Vannes. He went on to play in 11 Ligue 2 matches for Metz during the 2010–11 season, five of them as a substitute.
Kehli made his first appearance of the 2011–12 season in the opening-day defeat away at Tours on 27 July 2011. He played in a further seven league matches during the first five months of the campaign, including a starting place in the 1–0 home win over Reims.
References
- Samy Kehli profile at FootNational
- Samy Kehli profile at footballdatabase.eu
- Kehli – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- 1991 births
- Living people
- People from Saint-Avold
- French footballers
- Association football midfielders
- FC Metz players
- R.E. Virton players
- Ligue 2 players
- Belgian Second Division/Belgian First Division B players
- French expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- French expatriates in Belgium
- French people of Algerian descent