Le gardien de but Alban Lafont, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de repr\u00e9senter la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale. N\u00e9 \u00e0 Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso, d\u2019un p\u00e8re fran\u00e7ais, Rolland Lafont, et d\u2019une m\u00e8re burkinab\u00e8, Laurence Ilboudo Marchal. Apr\u00e8s avoir port\u00e9 les couleurs de la France dans toutes les cat\u00e9gories de jeunes et avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 convoqu\u00e9 en \u00e9quipe A en 2022 sans jouer, il change d\u00e9sormais de cap.<\/p>\n
Le s\u00e9lectionneur Emerse Fa\u00e9 l\u2019a convoqu\u00e9 pour les matchs des \u00e9liminatoires de la Coupe du Monde 2026 face au Burundi et au Gabon d\u00e9but septembre. Lafont, actuellement au Panathina\u00efkos apr\u00e8s son passage au FC Nantes, viendra renforcer une s\u00e9lection d\u00e9j\u00e0 comp\u00e9titive, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s du titulaire Yahia Fofana.<\/span><\/p>\n Cette d\u00e9cision suscite de vives r\u00e9actions en C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire comme au Burkina Faso. De nombreux supporters burkinab\u00e8, qui esp\u00e9raient voir le natif de Ouagadougou d\u00e9fendre les couleurs des \u00c9talons, expriment leur d\u00e9ception .\u00a0 <\/span>En C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, au contraire, l\u2019annonce est accueillie avec enthousiasme, certains y voyant un renfort de poids pour la d\u00e9fense des \u00c9l\u00e9phants.<\/span><\/p>\n Au-del\u00e0 du sport, ce choix, qui serait normalement anodin, peut \u00eatre mal compris dans le contexte actuel de tensions entre le Burkina Faso et la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. La d\u00e9cision d\u2019Alban Lafont alimente les d\u00e9bats, certains y voyant un symbole pouvant raviver les rivalit\u00e9s entre ces deux pays voisins, d\u00e9j\u00e0 sensibles sur le plan diplomatique et s\u00e9curitaire. <\/span><\/p>\n www.burkinaonline.net<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le gardien de but Alban Lafont, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de repr\u00e9senter la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire sur la…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,1,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post","category-burkina-faso","category-non-classe","category-societe","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}