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Lorenzo Hoareau

Seychelles footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ110803944 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lorenzo Adrien Hoareau (born 6 January 2007) is a Seychellois-French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Anse Réunion and the Seychelles national team. In 2021, he became the youngest player from an African nation to score in a senior international fixture and second-youngest scorer worldwide.

Youth career

In October 2021 Hoareau was named captain of his school football team in Mont Fleuri. In March 2022 he went on trial with Olympique de Marseille of the French Ligue 1. He was invited back for another trial the following year after he narrowly missed out on being signed by the club on his first attempt.

He returned to his Mont Fleuri school team in 2022. Following the season he was named the Seychelles school league's Player of the Year. In 2022 Hoareau also competed in the inaugural season of the U17 National League as a member of Foresters Mont Fleuri. He was tied for the scoring title with Dahan Fanchette of La Passe FC with ten goals each. Foresters finished in third place in the league table.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lorenzo Hoareau” is seychelles footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lorenzo, Hoareau and Seychelles, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-01-06. For this dossier, Lorenzo, Hoareau and Seychelles is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110803944. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lorenzo Hoareau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.