Kevin Diks Bakarbessy

Kevin Diks Bakarbessy is a right-footed centre-back from Apeldoorn, Netherlands, born on 6 October 1996. He developed at VIOS Vaassen and AGOVV Apeldoorn before joining Vitesse’s academy in 2005, then making his Eredivisie debut in 2014. In 2016, Diks moved to Fiorentina and later spent loan spells with Vitesse, Feyenoord and Empoli as he sought regular first-team football. He belonged to Vitesse’s 2017 KNVB Cup winners and later helped Feyenoord win the KNVB Cup and Dutch Super Cup in 2018. In 2021, he joined FC Copenhagen permanently and increasingly moved from right-back into central defence. Diks won consecutive Danish Superliga titles in 2022 and 2023, while becoming a regular in European competition, including Copenhagen’s 2023–24 Champions League campaign. In summer 2025, he transferred to Borussia Mönchengladbach, beginning a Bundesliga chapter after a varied decade across the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark.