Alban Lafont
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alban Lafont | ||
Date of birth | 23 January 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | ||
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Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Toulouse | ||
Number | 40 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2015 | Toulouse | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015– | Toulouse | 24 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2014-15 | France U16 | 6 | (0) |
2015– | France U17 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:03, 14 May 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 December 2015 |
Alban Lafont (born 23 January 1999) is a French footballer who currently plays as goalkeeper for Ligue 1 side Toulouse. He was born in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.[1]
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Club career
Toulouse
2015-16 season
Lafont is an academy graduate of Toulouse and made his Ligue 1 debut for the club on 28 November 2015 against OGC Nice.[2] Upon doing so, Lafont became the youngest ever goalkeeper to play in Ligue 1 at the age of 16 years and 310 days, surpassing the record previously held by Mickaël Landreau.[3] Having replaced Ali Ahamada and Mauro Goicoechea as Toulouse's starting goalkeeper, Lafont kept clean sheets in his first two competitive fixtures before finally conceding in a 3-2 loss against Lorient on 5 December 2015. Having been 10 points adrift of safety at the time of Lafont's introduction into the first team, Toulouse managed to avoid relegation on the final day of the season, thanks in part to the eight clean sheets he kept in his 24 appearances for the campaign.[4]
Club Statistics
(Correct as of 14 May 2016)
France | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Club | Season | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
Toulouse | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
Total | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
International career
French national youth teams
Lafont made six appearances for the France U16 team and captained the side on three separate occasions.[3] He then made his debut for France U17 on 20 October 2015 against N. Ireland, keeping a clean sheet in the process. Lafont was, however, not seleced for France's 2016 European Under-17 Championship squad after Toulouse had lobbied for him to remain with the club for their last two games of the season to aid their relegation battle.[5]
References
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