Rémy Descamps is a French goalkeeper who joined Lyon in August 2024 to act as a backup for Lucas Perri. It’s a role to which the twenty-eight year old has become accustomed in recent years, having spent the majority of the previous three seasons sitting on the bench for Nantes. Perri has been ever present […]
Tag: Goalkeeper
Lucas Perri – Player Profile
Lucas Estella Perri is a Brazilian goalkeeper who signed for Olympique Lyonnais for €3.25 million from Botafogo in the January 2024 transfer window. Having recently turned twenty-six, he arrived in Lyon to initially serve as a back-up for long-term custodian Anthony Lopes, replacing erstwhile reserve goalkeeper Rémy Riou, who moved on to Paris FC. Born […]
Rémy Riou
Rémy Riou joined Lyon in the summer of 2022 on a free transfer from Ligue 2 club Caen, as cover for first choice goalkeeper Anthony Lopes. Riou had been the regular starter in goal for the Normandy based club over the previous three seasons but, approaching his thirty-fifth birthday, he was now prepared to settle […]
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 […]
Anthony Racioppi
Anthony Racioppi became the third choice goalkeeper at Olympique Lyonnais in the 2018-19 season. For the time being, the twenty-one year old gets most of his action with the reserve team playing in the National 2 division as his rise through the ranks is blocked by Anthony Lopes and Ciprian Tătărușanu. However, Racioppi is respectively […]
Anthony Lopes – Player Profile
Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes is a product of Olympique Lyonnais’ much vaunted youth system and has become a cult hero with the fans, having been born and raised in the suburbs of the city before breaking into the first team squad in the 2012-13 season aged twenty-two. He went on the establish himself as the first […]