Yohann Pelé
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yohann Pelé[1] | ||
Date of birth | 4 November 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Brou-sur-Chantereine, France | ||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1999–2009 | Le Mans | 164 | (0) |
2009–2012 | Toulouse | 18 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Sochaux | 49 | (0) |
2015–2021 | Marseille | 62 | (0) |
Total | 293 | (0) | |
International career | |||
2004 | France U21 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:29, 31 July 2021 (UTC) |
Yohann Pelé (born 4 November 1982) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
[edit]Le Mans
[edit]Born in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Pelé spent most of his career at Le Mans, making his debut in Ligue 2 in a 1–0 defeat at FC Istres in September 2002. He established himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper in the 2004–05 season, as the club won promotion to Ligue 1. He ultimately made 164 appearances for the club before his departure in 2009.[citation needed]
Toulouse
[edit]On 29 June 2009, he was transferred from Le Mans to Toulouse FC where he signed a four-year contract.[citation needed]
On 12 October 2010, Toulouse announced that Pelé was suffering from a pulmonary embolism.[2][3] He ended up missing two seasons of football and at the end of the 2011–12 season he left the club.[4]
Sochaux
[edit]In January and August 2013, Pelé trained with Dijon FCO and Vannes OC respectively in order to regain fitness.[4][5] In January the following year, more than three years after his last competitive game, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.[6] He played 49 competitive matches for the club over the next two seasons before leaving to join Marseille in 2015.[7]
Marseille
[edit]In July 2015, Pelé joined Ligue 1 club Marseille.[7] After the departure of Steve Mandanda to Crystal Palace, he became Marseille's first choice goalkeeper.[8] He finished the 2016–17 season playing all league matches, and with the most clean sheets in all of Europe's top five leagues.[9]
On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseilles played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final[10] played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018,[11] versus Atlético Madrid.[citation needed]
International career
[edit]Pelé was called up to the France U21s in 2004, and made two starts.[12] He received his first call-up to the senior team in October 2008 for a friendly against Tunisia, but did not feature.[13]
Personal life
[edit]Yohann is the brother of Steven Pelé, a former footballer who played as a defender for various clubs in France, Israel and Romania.[4]
Honours
[edit]Marseille
- UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2017–18[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "UEFA Europa League 2009/2010: Booking List Group stage – before MD 5" (PDF). UEFA. p. 10. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ "Toulouse goalkeeper Pele out for six months". ESPN FC. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Y. Pelé out six mois - Foot - L1 - TFC - l'EQUIPE.FR". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ^ a b c "Yohann Pelé s'entraîne avec Vannes". Le Figaro (in French). 20 August 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Dijon accueille Yohann Pelé". L'Équipe (in French). 22 January 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ "Yohann Pelé est officiellement sochalien" [Yohann Pelé is officially sochalien] (in French). fcsochaux.fr. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Marseille sign ex-Sochaux keeper Yohann Pele". ESPNFC. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ "Mandanda Pens Crystal Palace Deal". Crystal Palace Football Club. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Yohann Pelé, l'albatros sous-coté". BeIN SPORTS Your Zone. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "FC Red Bull Salzburg 2–1 Marseille". BBC Sport. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Lyon to host 2018 UEFA Europa League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ "Football 365 - Toute l'actualité du foot en direct - Football".
- ^ "Pele gets France call for friendly with Tunisia". espnfc.com.com. 13 October 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Final: Marseille 0–3 Atlético: Overview". UEFA. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
External links
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- Yohann Pelé at WorldFootball.net
- Career stats at lfp.fr
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Seine-et-Marne
- French men's footballers
- France men's youth international footballers
- France men's under-21 international footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Le Mans FC players
- Toulouse FC players
- FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
- Olympique de Marseille players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players