Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365 : published on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Formed at PSG then passed through Rennes, Nancy, Montpellier and Bastia, this player ended his career at the age of 25 and became… a therapist.
Yassine Jebbour, does that name ring a bell? Well, it turns out he is a former player of Paris-Saint-Germain who has made a quite surprising career change. Trained at PSG, the defender, who made multiple appearances for the French U16 and U17 national teams, also played for Morocco (2 caps) and wore the colors of Rennes, Nancy, Montpellier and Bastia.
Then he suddenly halted his career at the age of 25 in 2016. “I no longer felt comfortable as a player in that world. It ended by choice, then I had the feeling of wanting to experience something else,” he confided to Nice-Matin. And then, Jebbour suddenly took a different path. The therapist profession caught his interest.
Jebbour: “My path was elsewhere. I wanted to experience other things, I had enough experience.” The former defender, who has been followed by a mental coach since the age of 21, became a therapist after a 5-year training. “A very powerful therapy that helps to move forward, based on exploring the past,” details the one who also practices impact coaching and mentoring for footballers. “In relation to my DNA, my story, my passions for support and football, to bring the two together, I needed coaching.”
He almost joined OM
According to Yassine Jebbour, the subject of mental health, especially among young people, raised recently by Samuel Umtiti, Raphaël Varane, or Florian Thauvin, is not taken seriously enough. “There are resistances to that in this environment,” observes the Franco-Moroccan who, proposed by Nasser Larguet (former director of the Marseille Olympic Training Center), was supposed to join OM in the mental part of the training center before things ultimately did not work out. However, the former player remains very motivated to help and give his time to clubs.
