Yohan Cabaye

Yohan Cabaye earns my respect as a genuine football lifer, kicking a ball for his hometown club from the age of six and developing through Lille's academy into a France international. I appreciate technical midfielders like him: at 174 cm he relied on vision, passing range, and game intelligence rather than physicality. He was the sort of player who changed matches with a single clever pass rather than flashy goals, and that understated craftsmanship is exactly the kind of footballer I find most rewarding to watch.

Name (English)

Yohan Cabaye

Name (Japanese)

ヨアン・キャバイェ

Reading

よあん・きゃばいぇ

Born

January 14, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Origin

Tourcoing, Nord, France

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttp://www.yohan-cabaye.com
• Xhttps://x.com/YCabayeofficiel
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohan%20Cabaye
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1910

Tags

• Nord
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.