Jean-Marie Elie

Jean-Marie Elie
Elie with Lens in 1975
Personal information
Date of birth (1950-09-30) 30 September 1950 (age 74)
Place of birth Longchamp-sur-Aujon, France
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Cherbourg (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1978 Lens 272+[a] (54+)
1978–1981 Saint-Étienne 90 (8)
Total 362+ (62+)
International career
1973 France B 1 (0)
Managerial career
1984–2007 UST Equeurdreville
2019– Cherbourg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jean-Marie Elie (born 30 September 1950) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. As of the 2021–22 season, he is the head coach of Championnat National 3 club Cherbourg.[citation needed] During his playing career of fourteen years, he played for Lens and Saint-Étienne, notably winning the Division 1 in the 1980–81 season with the latter.[2]

International career

Elie made one appearance for the France B national team in a 1–1 friendly draw to Cercle Brugge on 20 November 1973.[3]

Post-playing career

Elie retired from football in 1981. From 1983 to 1984, he worked as the sporting director of his former club Saint-Étienne.[citation needed] He would then go on to be the manager of UST Equeurdreville from 1984 to 2007, a managerial reign of twenty-three years.[citation needed] Later, he started working as a sport educator and coach for the Lecanu futsal team. In September 2009, he received the Trophée Georges-Boulogne, a trophy awarded by the Amicale des éducateurs de football.[4]

From 2017 to 2019, Elie worked as a member of staff at Cherbourg.[citation needed] In January 2019, he took over the club's head coach position.[5]

Honours

Lens

Saint-Étienne

Notes

  1. ^ Statistics are missing for the 1969–70 season.

References

  1. ^ Jean-Marie Elie at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b "FOOTBALL. Gros plan sur Jean-Marie Elie, champion de France il y a 40 ans" [FOOTBALL. Big plan on Jean-Marie Elie, champion of France 40 years ago.]. La Presse de la Manche (in French). 1 April 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  3. ^ "France B 1 - 1 Cercle Brugge KSV". Selection A (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Informations pour la période Janvier 2010" [Information for the period of January 2010]. Anciensverts.com (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  5. ^ Jean-Marie Elie at Soccerway


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