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Regional 1: "I did everything to reach the top level", says Hendrick Cakin

2020-09-30T15:53:52.312Z


Trained in Guingamp and Toulouse, the midfielder who joined Compiègne this summer also played in Nantes and then in Reims. But elem


This Sunday, it is in the very confidential atmosphere of the 4th round of the Coupe de France that Hendrick Cakin and his teammates from Compiègne (R 1) will try to obtain their qualification on the field of Breteuil (R 2).

It seems far away on April 14, 2018 when the midfielder played his first meeting in Ligue 2, the time of a few minutes during the clear success of Reims at Paris FC (0-3).

If the 28-year-old finds himself at the regional level today, it is because things did not always go as planned during his tortuous journey.

Very young, the child of Sarcelles demonstrates qualities above the average.

From adolescence, he therefore left his native Val-d'Oise to join the training center of Guingamp, where his older brother William is already evolving, then that of Toulouse.

At only 17 years old, he trained with Moussa Sissoko's team, and appeared thirteen times on the bench in the Elite.

But the pro contract he hopes so much is not submitted to him.

“The competition was tough in midfield, it was more as a full-back that I could find a place for myself,” Cakin explains.

But the club signed Serge Aurier, and offered me to stay as an amateur.

I was unhappy, I didn't have the right attitude anymore and things changed.

The Ile-de-France then had his first white season, before bouncing back in Vannes, in the National.

“I started for six months, it was going really well, he recalls.

In January, when I was very close to signing in Brest in L 2, I suffered a ruptured cruciate ligaments in my knee.

There, it's a bit of a descent into hell.

Vannes files for bankruptcy at the end of the season, I no longer have a club and I am injured.

I have to do my rehabilitation on my own.

"

A role that is necessarily specific to Compiègne

He must then wait two years before finding an employer.

But not just any: in January 2016, FC Nantes made him initial his first professional contract to supervise the young people of the reserve, in N 2. “I was a little late on the physical level, but happy to find a group, blows the midfielder.

I started to perform well again, to train with the pros.

If Sergio Conceiçao (Editor's note: the coach at the time) had stayed, I think I could have had my chance.

But at the end of the season, Reims offered me a two-year contract.

It was a great leap forward, an almost unexpected return.

My efforts were rewarded.

"

In the Marne, quickly hampered by tendonitis in the Achilles tendon, he does not manage to make his hole in a team which is rushing towards Ligue 1. "The results were there, and I had more of a role of sparring partner, he sighs.

At the end of the season, I canceled my contract to join Charleroi (Belgian D 1), but an agent problem prevented the transfer.

I found myself on the floor.

I then returned home and decided to prepare for my retraining.

Today I need stability.

"

This summer, Hendrick Cakin decided to join Compiègne, the team led by his former Sarcellois coach Djilalli Bekkar, and started training as a sports coach.

He thus closed the parenthesis of professionalism, without any regret.

“I did everything to reach the top level, I gave myself body and soul, considers the person concerned.

I did what I had to do, I met amazing people.

I was able to reach a social level that I would never have reached without football.

People don't always understand that it takes a luck factor to be successful, a little push, an injured teammate or lacking results.

"

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"He had the level and the mentality, but he had suffered injuries and was not necessarily in the right place at the right time," abounds Djilalli Bekkar.

All his career, Cakin will in any case have had to fight to prove that he had his place.

In Compiègne, his status is obviously different, since his rich CV stands out within the group.

"I wanted to give him back a taste for a project in which he is important, central, slips his trainer.

He never had that chance, although he had known the high level.

He is passionate, a professional at heart who is full of energy.

But, beyond the sporting aspect, I also want to help him think about after football… ”

Source: leparis

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