Personal information | |||
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Full name | Teddy Léo Junior Okou | ||
Date of birth | (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998 (age 26) | ||
Place of birth | Paris, France | ||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lausanne-Sport (on loan from Luzern) | ||
Number | 92 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2009 | USA Clichy | ||
2009–2010 | Red Star | ||
2010–2011 | Ivry | ||
2011–2012 | Le Havre | ||
2012–2013 | Creteil | ||
2013–2015 | Le Havre | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2018 | Le Havre II | 51 | (1) |
2017 | Le Havre | 0 | (0) |
2018–2020 | Lille II | 30 | (9) |
2019–2020 | → Creteil II (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2019–2020 | → Creteil (loan) | 9 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Boulogne | 35 | (3) |
2021 | Boulogne II | 1 | (0) |
2022–2023 | Stade Lausanne | 48 | (22) |
2023– | Luzern | 28 | (3) |
2024– | → Lausanne-Sport (loan) | 18 | (4) |
International career | |||
2014 | France U17 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC) |
Teddy Léo Junior Okou (born 15 May 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss Super League club Lausanne-Sport on loan from Luzern.
Career
Okou is a youth product of the French clubs USA Clichy, Red Star, Ivry, Le Havre and Creteil. He began his senior career with the reserves of Le Havre in the Championnat National 3 in 2015. He made his professional debut with the senior Le Havre team in a 4–4 (5–4) Coupe de la Ligue penalty shootout win over Nîmes on 8 August 2017, assisting his side's fourth goal. On 15 July 2018, he signed his first professional contract with Lille where he was originally assigned to their reserves. His stay with Lille was cut short after an injury kept him out for 7 months. On 24 July 2019, he moved on loan to the Championnat National side Creteil, in a year where he suffered from athletic pubalgia. On 8 October 2020, he moved to Boulogne, also in the Championnat National on a 2-year contract.
On 8 January 2022, Okou moved to the Swiss Challenge League club Stade Lausanne Ouchy. In his second season with Stade Lausanne Ouchy, he had 19 goals and 8 assists and was top scorer in a season that saw the club achieve promotion. After the season ended, he transferred to the Swiss Super League club Luzern on a 3-year contract.
International career
Okou holds both French and Ivorian nationalities. He is a youth international for France, having played for the France U17s in 2014.
Honours
- Individual
References
- "Le Havre AC 4-4 Nimes (9 Aug, 2017) Final Score - ESPN (AU)". ESPN.
- "LOSC : premier contrat pro pour le Havrais Teddy Lia Okou". France 3 Hauts-de-France. 15 July 2018.
- "Teddy Okou despierta la lujuria en Europa". OneFootball. 20 October 2023.
- Marques, Daniel (24 July 2019). "Teddy Okou signe à l'US Créteil Lusitanos".
- Liron, Sylvain (8 October 2020). "Football: "En National, si tu ne tues pas, tu te fais tuer"". La Voix du Nord.
- ^ "Teddy Okou, le bourreau du FC Sion, a trouvé un nouveau club". Watson.
- "Teddy Okou unterschreibt beim FC Luzern einen Dreijahresvertrag". Luzerner Zeitung. 26 June 2023.
- "Teddy OKOU". unfp.org. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- "Fédération Française de Football". www.fff.fr.
External links
- Teddy Okou at Soccerway
- SFL Profile
- FFF profile
FC Lausanne-Sport – current squad | |
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Paris
- French men's footballers
- France men's youth international footballers
- French sportspeople of Ivorian descent
- Ivorian men's footballers
- Le Havre AC players
- Lille OSC players
- US Créteil-Lusitanos players
- US Boulogne players
- FC Stade Lausanne Ouchy players
- FC Luzern players
- FC Lausanne-Sport players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- Swiss Super League players
- Swiss Promotion League players
- Swiss 1. Liga (football) players
- Men's association football wingers
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- French expatriates in Switzerland
- 21st-century French sportsmen