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Yoro with Lille in 2023
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Leny Olivier Yoro | ||
| Date of birth | (2005-11-13) 13 November 2005 (age 18) | ||
| Place of birth | Saint-Maurice, France | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Lille | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2011–2012 | Alfortville | ||
| 2012–2017 | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | ||
| 2017–2022 | Lille | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2023 | Lille B | 13 | (0) |
| 2022– | Lille | 46 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | France U17 | 1 | (0) |
| 2022 | France U18 | 5 | (0) |
| 2023– | France U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2023– | France U21 | 4 | (0) |
| 2024 | France Olympic | 0 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:10, 19 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:09, 26 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
Leny Olivier Yoro (born 13 November 2005) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Lille.
Leny Yoro was born on 13 November 2005 in Saint-Maurice, France and spent his first years in Alfortville.[1][2] He is of Somali descent through his father. At the age of five, he started playing football at Alfortville where he stayed one season before moving with his family in the Lille area. He then pursued his football learning in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, where he grew up, and finally joined Lille's youth system in 2017.[3]
Yoro debuted with Lille reserve team in 2022, and quickly signed his first professional contract with the club on 10 January 2022.[4] He made his professional debut with Lille in a 3–1 Ligue 1 win over Nice on 14 May 2022. At 16 years six months and one day of age, Yoro is the second youngest Lille player, behind Joël Depraeter-Henry and taking the second place from Eden Hazard.[5][6]
On 24 August 2023, Yoro scored his first goal at the club in a 2–1 victory over Rijeka, in the first leg of the 2023–24 Conference League play-off round.[7] A month later, on 16 September, he scored his first Ligue 1 goal for Lille in a 2–2 away draw against Rennes.[8]
Yoro is a youth international for France, having represented the France U17s.[4]
| Club | Season | League | Coupe de France | Continental | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lille B | 2021–22 | Championnat National 3 | 9 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Championnat National 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 13 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 0 | ||||
| Lille | 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9[a] | 1 | 44 | 3 | |
| Total | 46 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 60 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 59 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 73 | 3 | ||
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Lille OSC – current squad
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