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Alban Lafont

French association football player (born 1999)

Born
January 23, 1999
Age in 2026
27
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1999

About Alban Lafont

Alban-Marc Lafont (born 23 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Turkish Süper Lig club Amedspor. Born in Burkina Faso and raised in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team. Having progressed through the academy of AS Lattoise, Lafont signed for Toulouse in 2014 where he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in Ligue 1 upon making his debut the following year. He went on to make over 100 appearances for the club across all competitions before joining Fiorentina in 2018. In 2019, he returned to France in a loan deal to Nantes; the deal was made permanent in 2021. == Early life == Lafont was born in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to a French father and Burkinabé Dyula mother. His parents separated when he was nine years old and Lafont moved to France to live with his father in Herault. His mother remained in Burkina Faso, where she later became a Member of Parliament for the People's Movement for Progress in the Burkina Faso National Assembly. Lafont comes from a sporting family. His maternal grandfather played football for ten years and later served as president of Ouagadougou Shooting Star while his mother was a member of the national handball team.

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Career and life highlights

Alban Lafont timeline

  1. Having progressed through the academy of AS Lattoise, Lafont signed for Toulouse in 2014 where he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in Ligue 1 upon making his debut the following year.
  2. Having replaced Ali Ahamada and Mauro Goicoechea as Toulouse's starting goalkeeper, Lafont kept clean sheets in his first two competitive fixtures before finally conceding in a 3–2 loss against Lorient on 5 December 2015.

The world when Alban Lafont was born

Alban Lafont was born in 1999. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1999

  • #1 song"Believe" – Cher
  • Top movieAmerican Beauty
  • Top TV showER
  • Best-selling bookHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentUS Women's Soccer team wins World Cup on Brandi Chastain's penalty kick
  • Top headlineY2K fears grip the world as the millennium approaches
  • Technology milestoneNapster launches — music sharing revolution
  • Defining fadY2K panic
  • Notable inventionNapster (peer-to-peer file sharing)
  • World population6.01 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderBill Clinton
  • Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
  • Also wonSan Antonio Spurs (NBA)
  • U.S. population272.7M

1999 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Alban Lafont's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19992026
Gas$1.17$3.45/gal
Average home$133,300$435,000
Average income$50,641$67,500
Minimum wage$5.15$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$5.08$11.95
Postage stamp$0.33$0.73
Population272.7M341 million

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