Their 2026 World Cup
Match by match
Y. Valery played 2 matches for Tunisia, starting every one.
Biography
Yan Valery (Arabic: يان فاليري; born 22 February 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL League One club Sheffield Wednesday. Born in France, he plays for the Tunisia national team. He began his senior career in England with Premier League club Southampton and spent the second half of the 2020–21 season on loan at Championship club Birmingham City before joining Angers in 2022. Valery moved to Sheffield Wednesday in June 2024 and had a short spell on loan at Young Boys during the 2025–26 season. In international football, he represented his native France at under-17 and under-18 levels before switching to his mother's country of Tunisia at senior level in 2022.
Early life Valery was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, France to a Martiniquais father and Tunisian mother. He is a Muslim.
Southampton Valery joined Southampton in 2015 from Rennes. On 27 November 2018, Southampton boss Mark Hughes handed Valery his first team debut in an EFL Cup match against Leicester City.
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