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Alban Lafont
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French association football player (born 1999)
Key facts
- 2015
- France U16
- 2016
- France U18
- 2021
- Nantes
- 2025
- Nantes B
- Full name
- Alban-Marc Lafont
- Date of birth
- ( 1999-01-23 ) 23 January 1999 (age 27)
- Place of birth
- Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso
- Height
- 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Current team
- Panathinaikos , (on loan from Nantes )
- 2008 2014
- AS Lattoise
- 2014 2015
- Toulouse
- Years
- Team
- 2015 2018
- Toulouse
- 2018 2021
- Fiorentina
- 2019 2021
- → Nantes (loan)
- 2017 2018
- France U19
- 2017 2019
- France U20
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marc
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ivory Coast
- Place of birth
- Ouagadougou
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Participant in
- 2025 Africa Cup of Nations
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- FC Nantes
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- League
- Ligue 1
- Country for sport
- Ivory Coast
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Alban Lafont - entrainement - 9 mai 2018 1.jpg
- Height
- 193
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- date of birth
- 1999-01-23
- sport number
- 1
- Commons category
- Alban Lafont
- birth name
- Alban-Marc Lafont
- name in native language
- Alban Lafont
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Alban-Marc Lafont (born 23 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos, on loan from Ligue 2 club Nantes. Born in Burkina Faso and raised in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.
Having progressed through the academy of AS Lattoise, Lafont signed for Toulouse in 2014 where he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in Ligue 1 upon making his debut the following year. He went on to make over 100 appearances for the club across all competitions before joining Fiorentina in 2018. In 2019, he returned to France in a loan deal to Nantes; the deal was made permanent in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alban Lafont” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.