Yoann Folly
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yoann Folly | ||
| Date of birth | 6 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Central midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | Saint-Étienne | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2006 | Southampton | 14 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Nottingham Forest (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Preston North End (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Sheffield Wednesday | 39 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Plymouth Argyle | 22 | (0) |
| 2010 | → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Aberdeen | 18 | (1) |
| Total | 117 | (1) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003–2006 | France U21 | 10 | (0) |
| 2008 | Togo | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 January 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 September 2008 |
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Yoann Folly (born 6 June 1985 in Paris, France) is a retired French-born Togolese footballer. His previous clubs include St. Étienne in France, Southampton, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle in England and Aberdeen in Scotland. A series of poor health and injuries eventually lead to Folly's premature retirement in 2012, aged 27.
Folly was brought to England in 2003 by then Southampton manager Gordon Strachan who paid St. Étienne £250,000 to secure his signature. After numerous managerial changes at Southampton, Folly struggled to get in the team and loan spells at Nottingham Forest (where he scored his first goal in English football against QPR in the FA Cup) and Preston North End followed. Folly was signed on loan by Sheffield Wednesday in January 2006 to ease injury problems as the then manager Paul Sturrock had been impressed by him after taking over as Saints manager from Strachan in 2004. He made his debut on 31 January at Hillsborough, suffering a 2–0 defeat against Luton Town.
Folly's promising displays meant that he joined Wednesday on a permanent basis at the end of the 2005–06 season, rejecting the offer of a new contract at St. Mary's. However, Southampton did receive an undisclosed compensation fee, under FA rules due to him being under the age of 24. He climbed off the substitutes' bench at Hillsborough to score an extra-time winner for Wednesday in the League Cup second round versus Hartlepool United in August 2007.
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