Jean-Paul Abalo
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography
Jean-Paul Yaovi Dosseh Abalo (born 26 June 1975) is a Togolese former footballer who played as a defender. He is the current coach of the Togo national under-20 football team.
Club career
Abalo played for six seasons in the French Ligue 2 with Amiens SC.Template:Refn He acquired French nationality by naturalization on 29 January 1998 and legally changed his name from Yaovi to Jean-Paul.[1]
In 2006, he moved to APOEL in Cyprus, where he won the 2005–06 Cypriot Cup. Whilst at Amiens, Abalo played in the 2001 Coupe de France Final. His penalty miss proved decisive as Amiens lost to Strasbourg.[2]
International career
Abalo was the captain of the Togo national football team. He was called up to the 2006 World Cup, and represented his country at four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.[3] His contribution to the team's World Cup campaign was overshadowed by the red card he received in the opening match against South Korea, as his side suffered a 1–2 defeat.[4]
Coaching career
In January 2018, Abalo was announced as the Togo national under-20 football team coach for the 2018 Toulon Tournament.[5]
Honours
APOEL
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Jean-Paul Abalo – FIFA competition record (archived)Template:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE at National-Football-Teams.comScript error: No such module "EditAtWikidata".Script error: No such module "WikidataCheck".
Template:Togo Squad 1998 Africa Cup of Nations Template:Togo Squad 2000 Africa Cup of Nations Template:Togo Squad 2002 Africa Cup of Nations Template:Togo Squad 2006 Africa Cup of Nations Template:Togo Squad 2006 World Cup
- Pages with script errors
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lomé
- Togolese men's footballers
- Togolese expatriate men's footballers
- Togo men's international footballers
- French men's footballers
- Naturalized citizens of France
- Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players
- APOEL FC players
- LB Châteauroux players
- Amiens SC players
- OC Agaza players
- USL Dunkerque players
- Al Merrikh SC players
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Cypriot First Division players
- Super League Greece 2 players
- 2006 FIFA World Cup players
- 1998 African Cup of Nations players
- 2000 African Cup of Nations players
- 2002 African Cup of Nations players
- 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
- Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
- Men's association football defenders
- 21st-century Togolese sportsmen