As part of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, Côte d'Ivoire will face Burundi on September 5, then Gabon on September 9. Big surprise this Wednesday, Alban Lafont was summoned by Faé Emerse for this elephant gathering.
The new Panathinaïkós player is one of the three goalkeepers called by the Ivorian coach, with Yahia Fofana (Angers) and Mohamed Koné (Charleroi). This big fellow of 1m96 was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Alban Lafont even has
Burkinabee nationality by his mother. Indeed, Laurence Ilboudo Marchal is none other than a Burkinabé business chef, elected deputy in the Burkinabé National Assembly in January 2016 and Minister of Women, Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action from January 2018 to December 2021.
Alban Lafont prefers elephants to stallions
So how could the former porter of FC Nantes be selected by Emerse Faé? Simply because the mother of her maternal grandfather was Ivorian, according to
The team.
Burkina Faso had however tried to convince him to join the stallions. In vain. Recall that the 26 -year -old goalkeeper had already been called by Didier Deschamps in September 2022, replacing Hugo Lloris, package. Except that he had not come into play in matches against Austria and Denmark in the League of Nations.
