Teddy Okou
Personal information
Full name Teddy Léo Junior Okou
Date of birth (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998
Place of birth Paris, France
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Luzern
Number 11
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 Ouchy 48 (22)
2023– Luzern 13 (1)
International career‡
2014 France U17 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 December 2023
‡ 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 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.[1] On 15 July 2018, he signed his first professional contract with Lille where he was originally assigned to their reserves.[2] His stay with Lille was cut short after an injury kept him out for 7 months.[3] On 24 July 2019, he moved on loan to the Championnat National side Creteil, in a year where he suffered from athletic pubalgia.[4] On 8 October 2020, he moved to Boulogne, also in the Championnat National on a 2-year contract.[5]

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.[6] After the season ended, he transferred to the Swiss Super League club Luzern on a 3-year contract.[7]

International career

Okou holds both French and Ivorian nationalities.[8] He is a youth international for France, having played for the France U17s in 2014.[9]

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Le Havre AC 4-4 Nimes (9 Aug, 2017) Final Score - ESPN (AU)". ESPN.
  2. ↑ "LOSC : premier contrat pro pour le Havrais Teddy Lia Okou". France 3 Hauts-de-France. 15 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Teddy Okou despierta la lujuria en Europa". OneFootball. 20 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Marques, Daniel (24 July 2019). "Teddy Okou signe à l'US Créteil Lusitanos".
  5. ↑ Liron, Sylvain (8 October 2020). "Football: «En National, si tu ne tues pas, tu te fais tuer»". La Voix du Nord.
  6. 1 2 "Teddy Okou, le bourreau du FC Sion, a trouvé un nouveau club". watson.ch/fr.
  7. ↑ "Teddy Okou unterschreibt beim FC Luzern einen Dreijahresvertrag". Luzerner Zeitung. 26 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Teddy OKOU". unfp.org. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Fédération Française de Football". www.fff.fr.
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