Yohann Pelé (born 4 November 1982) is a French former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Le Mans

Born in

Brou-sur-Chantereine Brou-sur-Chantereine () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department, in the Île-de-France region, north-central France. Demographics Inhabitants are called ''Breuillois'' in French. See also *Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department The ...

, Pelé spent most of his career at

Le Mans Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...

, making his debut in

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 ...

in a 1–0 defeat at

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in September 2002. He established himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper in the 2004–05 season, as the club won promotion to

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. He ultimately made 164 appearances for the club before his departure in 2009.

Toulouse

On 29 June 2009, he was transferred from Le Mans to

Toulouse FC Toulouse Football Club is French professional football club based in Toulouse. The club was founded in 1970 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the premier division of French football. Toulouse plays its home matches at the Stadium de Toulouse lo ...

where he signed a four-year contract. On 12 October 2010, Toulouse announced that Pelé was suffering from a

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. He ended up missing two seasons of football and at the end of the 2011–12 season he left the club.

Sochaux

In January and August 2013, Pelé trained with

Dijon FCO Dijon Football Côte d'Or (; literally "Dijon Football Gold Coast"), commonly referred to as Dijon FCO or simply as Dijon, is a French football club based in Dijon. The club was founded in 1998 as a result of a merger between two local clubs in ...

and

Vannes OC Vannes Olympique Club (; commonly referred to as simply Vannes) is a French football club based in Vannes. The club was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of ''Véloce vannetais'' founded in 1911 and ''FC Vannes'' known before 1991 as ''UCK ...

respectively in order to regain fitness. 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 Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (; commonly referred to as FCSM or simply Sochaux) is a French association football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second tier of Frenc ...

. He played 49 competitive matches for the club over the next two seasons before leaving to join

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

in 2015.

Marseille

In July 2015, Pelé joined

club Marseille. After the departure of

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, he became Marseille's first choice goalkeeper. He finished the 2016–17 season playing all league matches, and with the most clean sheets in all of Europe's top five leagues. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to

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as Marseilles played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the

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played at the

Parc Olympique Lyonnais Parc Olympique Lyonnais, known for sponsorship reasons as Groupama Stadium, is a 59,186-seat stadium in Décines-Charpieu, in the Lyon Metropolis. The home of French football club Olympique Lyonnais, it replaced their previous stadium, Stade de ...

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Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, France on 16 May 2018, versus

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International career

Pelé was called up to the France U21s in 2004, and made two starts. He received his first call-up to the senior team in October 2008 for a friendly against

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, but did not feature.

Personal life

Yohann is the brother of

Steven Pelé Steven Robert Pelé (born 28 August 1981) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is the older brother of Yohann Pelé. Coaching career In the summer 2016, Pelé joined Séné FC as a playing manager. Ahead of ...

, a former footballer who played as a defender for various clubs in France, Israel and Romania.

Honours

Marseille *

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runner-up: 2017–18

References

External links

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Career stats
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