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Yohann Pelé

Pelé playing for Marseille in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Yohann Denis Patrick Pelé[1]
Date of birth	(1982-11-04) 4 November 1982 (age 42)[2]
Place of birth	Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper[2]
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
2008	France U21	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yohann Denis Patrick Pelé (born 4 November 1982) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Born in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne,^[2] 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]}

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.^[3][4] He ended up missing two seasons of football and at the end of the 2011–12 season he left the club.^[5]

In January and August 2013, Pelé trained with Dijon FCO and Vannes OC respectively in order to regain fitness.^[5][6] 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.^[7] He played 49 competitive matches for the club over the next two seasons before leaving to join Marseille in 2015.^[8]

In July 2015, Pelé joined Ligue 1 club Marseille.^[8] After the departure of Steve Mandanda to Crystal Palace, he became Marseille's first choice goalkeeper.^[9] He finished the 2016–17 season playing all league matches, and with the most clean sheets in all of Europe's top five leagues.^[10]

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^[11] played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018,^[12] versus Atlético Madrid.^{[citation needed]}

Pelé was called up to the France U21s in 2008, and made two starts.^[13] He received his first call-up to the senior team in October 2008 for a friendly against Tunisia, but did not feature.^[14]

Yohann is the brother of Steven Pelé, a former footballer who played as a defender for various clubs in France, Israel and Romania.^[5]

Marseille

• UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2017–18^[15]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yohann Pelé.

• Yohann Pelé at the French Football Federation (in French)
• Yohann Pelé – UEFA competition record (archive)