Magnaba Koné Folquet (born 2 November 2003) is a French professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Fleury, on loan from

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. She has also appeared for the French national team at various youth levels including most recently for the U20 team at the

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Early life

Folquet was born in the Paris region and began playing football at the age of 10 at FC Emerainville. Later, Folquet joined

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a club known for its history of youth development in the men's game with

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amongst the players who spent part of their academy career at the club. Finally, Folquet joined the

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at fifteen years old.

Club career

An eventual youth academy graduate of Paris Saint-Germain, Folquet was selected for the PSG squad by coach

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in each of the club's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final legs in the spring of

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but was an unused substitute. In the build-up to the 2021–22 season, Folquet was included as part of the first team squad by new coach

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. On 21 November 2021, Folquet made her senior competitive debut off the bench for PSG in a 7–0 win over

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. Two weeks later, she started her first match for the first team and made her Champions League debut against Zhytlobud. On 13 April 2022, Folquet signed her first professional contact with PSG. On 23 November 2022, Folquet scored her first professional goal against Vllaznia in the Champions League. Her second goal for the club was scored in the return fixture with Vllaznia two weeks later. On 30 January 2023, Folquet moved to Fleury on loan after making just six appearances for new coach Gérard Prêcheur in the first half of the 2022–23 season.

International career

Folquet has been a French youth international at three different levels. Her first cap for the U17 side was against

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on 5 December 2019. She graduated to the U19 team for a single appearance against Iceland in 2021 before making her

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debut (in a friendly technically classed at the U23 level by FIFA) against

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on 8 April 2022. In June 2022, Folquet was part of the squad that represented France at the

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where the team finished as runners-up. On 15 August 2022, Folquet scored her first goals for France's youth teams with a brace against

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at the

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. She also scored in the knockout stages of the same tournament against

though France were eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Japanese. She finished as the tournament's joint-third leading scorer.https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/hamano-gabarro-grab-golden-honours

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