Jean-Pascal Fontaine (born 11 September 1989) is a French 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

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Career

Fontaine was born in

Saint-Louis, Réunion Saint-Louis (; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, Sin Loui) is the fifth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the southwest part of the island of Réunion, adjacent to Saint-Pierre. Geography Climate ...

. In July 2002, he joined

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very cl ...

from

JS Saint-Pierroise Jeunesse Sportive Saint-Pierroise or JSSP is a French football club from Saint-Pierre, Réunion. Its most notable player is Roger Milla, from the Cameroon national football team. Achievements *Réunion Premier League: 21 ::1956, 1957, 1959, 19 ...

. He played his first game for Le Havre against

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

on 20 August 2007. Fontaine left

after 20 years at the club at the end of the 2021–22 season.

Honours

Le Havre *

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 ...

: 2007–08

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* * * * 1989 births Living people Association football midfielders French footballers France under-21 international footballers Footballers from Réunion Le Havre AC players JS Saint-Pierroise players AS Beauvais Oise players Ligue 2 players {{Réunion-footy-bio-stub