Armel Bella-Kotchap
ABOUT ARMEL BELLA-KOTCHAP
This German professional footballer plays center back for the Barclays Premier League team Southampton. He has 60,000 followers on Instagram, which he joined back in April of 2019, the same year he made his Bundesliga debut.
Bella-Kotchap began his youth international career with the Germany under-18 team. He also played football with Rot Weiss Ahlen, the club that gave Marco Reus his start in the game, at the age of four.
He started his pro career with VfL Bochum, one of Germany's Bundesliga teams based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was born in Paris, France, but has German citizenship, and is the son of former Cameroon international Cyrille Florent Bella, who is Cameroonian.
Two of Bella-Kotchap's Southampton teammates include Oriol Romeu and James Ward-Prowse .