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Christopher Téa Opéri (born 29 April 1997) is an Ivorian professional
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who plays as a left-back for French club Le Havre and the Ivory Coast national team.


Club career

After years in the youth academy of
Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Châteauroux on 24 July 2017. He made his first professional appearance with Châteauroux in a 2–1
Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...
loss to Gazélec Ajaccio on 22 September 2017. On 2 June 2021, he signed a two-year contract with Gent in Belgium. On 21 June 2022, Opéri's contract with Gent was terminated by mutual consent. On 29 June 2022, Opéri returned to France and signed a two-year contract with Le Havre.


International career

Opéri made his debut for the Ivory Coast national team on 7 June 2024 in a
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against Gabon at the
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. He substituted
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in the 86th minute of a 1–0 Ivory Coast victory.


Personal life

Opéri was born in the Ivory Coast to an Ivorian father and French mother, and moved to France at a young age. His uncle
Cyril Domoraud Dépri Cyrille Léandre Domoraud (born 22 July 1971) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He also holds French nationality and spent most of his career in Western Europe. He played in 3 of the 5 top leagues in ...
is a former professional footballer.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Opéri, Christopher Living people 1997 births Naturalized citizens of France Ivorian people of French descent French sportspeople of Ivorian descent Ivorian men's footballers Footballers from Abidjan French men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Ivory Coast men's international footballers Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 3 players Belgian Pro League players LB Châteauroux players K.A.A. Gent players Le Havre AC players Ivorian expatriate men's footballers French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium