If his name says something to you, it is normal! He is the son of the largest French tennis player of the Eighties. His/her mother Cécilia Rhodos is Swedish and when it is born, she is known as much in France than in Sweden since she is elected Miss Sweden 1978.
This young man in the multiple beginnings (franco-camerounais-suedois) is a true wonder as well as the tennis player was his father. You will however not see it racket with the drible hand but full on the ground.
Joakim grows in Parisian suburbs and is waked up with the sport whereas it just learns how to run. As of 6 years, it is taken in hand by the large trainer of Levallois, Ron Stewart.
Joakim is very young when it sets out again in the USA It is in New York, cultural capital and high place of the tennis shoe that Joakim begins its elementary school and its training of basketball player.
Beautiful "the frenchy" plays then in the great championship of tennis shoe and carries out an exploit in the United States: to be the first French to gain a finale of university Championship NCCA (regarded as the second sporting event most significant in the United States).
But this beautiful sportsman of 2 m09 is also brilliant. He is student in anthropology at the University of Florida.
At its post of pivot/ailier, it explodes during the season 2005-06. It gains with its team the tournament of Southeastern Conference and is named better player of the tournament.