Category: Football

Marcelo

Marcelo Antônio Guedes Filho is a tall, solid, Brazilian centre-back who arrived at Lyon in July 2017 aged 30, having spent the previous decade traversing Europe with spells at major clubs in Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey, picking up several major trophies along the way. Following in the footsteps of a long line of […]

Léo Dubois

Léo Dubois has been the first choice right-back or right-wing-back at Lyon since his arrival on a free transfer from Nantes in summer 2018. He’s an accomplished all-rounder, as good going forward as he is defensively, and has been one of the club’s most consistent performers over the past two seasons. His crossing ability from […]

Maxence Caqueret

Maxence Caqueret is yet another prodigious talent to come off the fertile Olympique Lyonnais production line. The French central midfielder is a local boy, who has been on the books of the club since the age of eleven and now looks set for a long career at the top level. He progressed steadily through the […]

Julian Pollersbeck

German goalkeeper Julian Pollersbeck joined Olympique Lyonnais in September 2020 as cover for Anthony Lopes, on a four year contract for an initial fee of €250,000 from Hamburg. He takes over the reserve goalkeeper role from Anthony Racioppi, who left Lyon to join Dijon the same week. Pollersbeck took his place on the Lyon bench […]

Tino Kadewere

Lyon plucked Tino Kadewere from Ligue 2 outfit Le Havre in January 2020 in a transfer deal worth up to €15 million. He was seen primarily as an exciting prospect for the future and was therefore loaned back to the Normandy based club for the remainder of the season. At twenty-four, the Zimbabwean international striker […]

Karl Toko Ekambi

Karl Toko Ekambi is a Cameroonian international striker who can operate as a conventional centre-forward or cutting in from a wide position on either side of the attack. He has a strong physical presence, poses an aerial threat inside the box and is useful at holding the ball up to bring his team mates into […]

Lyon sink Juve on away goals

Lyon qualified for the Quarter-Finals of the UEFA Champions League courtesy of a tense Friday night 2-1 defeat away to Juventus in Italy. The loan goal of the first leg scored over four months earlier by the now departed Lucas Tousart, combined with the clean sheet at home gave Lyon the platform for a defensive, […]

Moussa Dembélé

Moussa Dembélé was born and grew up in Pontoise, just to the north of Paris, and as a schoolboy footballer he attracted the attention of scouts from Paris-Saint Germain, who brought him into their youth system at the age of eight. Dembélé progressed steadily through the junior ranks at PSG until the club’s 2011 purchase […]

Houssem Aouar

Houssem Aouar is a product of Olympique Lyonnais’ successful youth system that seems to churn out no end of exciting young talent, especially in the technically adept midfielder mould of which this Frenchman of Algerian descent is a prime example. Aouar was born and raised in Lyon and joined the club as an eleven-year-old in […]