Alban Lafont
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Alban Lafont (2018)
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | Alban-Marc Lafont | |
birthday | January 23, 1999 | |
place of birth | Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso | |
size | 193 cm | |
position | goal | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
2008-2014 | AS Lattoise | |
2014-2016 | Toulouse FC | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
2015-2018 | Toulouse FC | 98 (0) |
2018– | AC Florence | 34 (0) |
2019– | → FC Nantes (loan) | 27 (0) |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
2015 | France U16 | 5 (0) |
2015 | France U17 | 2 (0) |
2016 | France U18 | 4 (0) |
2017-2018 | France U19 | 5 (0) |
2017-2019 | France U20 | 7 (0) |
2019– | France U21 | 5 (0) |
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 19, 2019 |
Alban-Marc Lafont (born January 23, 1999 in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso ) is a French football goalkeeper of Burkinabe descent. The French U21 international is under contract with Fiorentina and plays on loan at FC Nantes .
Career
societies
Lafont started his career at AS Lattoise and joined the youth team at Toulouse FC in 2014 . He has been a member of the first team there since November 2015. On November 28, 2015, he made his Ligue 1 debut in a 2-0 home win against OGC Nice at the age of 16 . This makes him the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in the French league. In the 2016/17 season , Lafont was the regular goalkeeper of Toulouse and played 36 of the 38 league games. In the 2017/18 season he was used in every league game for the full season.
For the 2018/19 season Lafont moved to the Italian first division club Fiorentina , with whom he signed a five-year contract. He will play on loan at FC Nantes for the 2019/20 season .
National team
Lafont made his debut on February 18, 2015 in a 2-1 win against Switzerland for the U16 team of the French Football Association . Since then, he has played in the youth national teams of the French Football Association , for which he has so far been used 28 times.
Web links
- Alban Lafont in the database of the Fédération Française de Football (French)
- Alban Lafont in the database of weltfussball.de
- Alban Lafont in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ UEFA.com's weekly wonderkid: Alban Lafont on uefa.com, December 5, 2015, accessed on January 21, 2016.
- ↑ Lafont completes Fiorentina move on violachannel.tv of July 2, 2018, accessed on July 4, 2018 (English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lafont, Alban |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lafont, Alban-Marc (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer goalkeeper |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1999 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso |