Tripy Makonda

Tripy Deyingo Makonda is a French association football player, born on 24 January 1990, who plays as a left back and has spent the later part of his career with FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach in Luxembourg. He grew up in the Paris area, starting at the age of five with Nicolaite de Chaillot and moving in 1998 to AC Boulogne-Billancourt, where he often faced the youth sides of Paris Saint-Germain, the club he dreamed of joining. Despite interest from Lens and Toulouse, he chose Paris Saint-Germain, spent nearly six years at its training centre, joined its amateur team in 2007-08 and was promoted to the senior squad the following season. He made his professional debut on 18 February 2009 in a UEFA Cup match against VfL Wolfsburg and his league debut on 12 April 2009 against Lille, and signed his first professional contract in June 2009. After only nine league appearances in three seasons he joined Brest in 2011 and later moved to Academica in Portugal in 2015. Makonda represented France at under-18, under-19 and under-20 level and played all four matches of the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, where France lost the semi-final to England.