Alban Lafont
Birth Name: Alban Marc Lafont
Place of Birth: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Date of Birth: 23 January, 1999
Ethnicity:
*French (father)
*Burkinabe (mother)
Alban Lafont is a French professional footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Nantes. He has also played for Toulouse and Fiorentina. He is 6′5″.
He was born in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. His father, Rolland Lafont, is French. His mother, Hélène Marie-Laurence Ilboudo/Marchal, was born in Douka, Guinea, and was a member of the Burkinabe national handball team. She is a politician, who is a member of Parliament for the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) in the Burkina Faso National Assembly, and government minister. Alban was raised mostly by his father in Herault, France.
He had relatives killed in the Ouagadougou attacks in 2016.
Alban’s maternal grandfather played football for ten years, and served as president of Ouagadougou Shooting Star.
son of Rolland Lafont and Hélène Marie-Laurence Ilboudo/ Marchal
His mother is a politician: a member of Parliament for the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) in the Burkina Faso National Assembly, she is “Ministre de la Femme, de la Solidarité nationale, de la Famille et de l’Action humanitaire du Burkina Faso”
She was born in Douka, Guinea. Her maiden name is Marchal and she may have a French ancestry.