André Riou (8 August 1918– 5 October 2005), nicknamed , was a French

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

. Riou was born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, and played for

Toulouse FC Toulouse Football Club is French professional football club based in Toulouse. The club was founded in 1970 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the premier division of French football. Toulouse plays its home matches at the Stadium de Toulouse lo ...

at the end of the 1930s as a striker, but was best known as a manager all over France. He was also head of youth development for the FFF, at the beginning of the 1950s, and was also regional head of technical coaching until the 1980s.

Playing career

* Racing de Paris *

Playing honours

* Champion of Zone Sud in

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

(TFC)

Coaching career

* AS Biterroise (D2) * Red Star Olympique Audonien/Stade Français: 1948 to 1950 *

Amiens SC Amiens Sporting Club (; commonly referred to as Amiens SC or simply Amiens) is a French association football club based in the northern city of Amiens in the Hauts-de-France region. The club was formed in 1901 and play in Ligue 2, the second d ...

* Standard de Liège: 1953 (1st pro. coach at the club) in 1958 * Daring Club Bruxelles: 1958 to 1961 *

RAEC Mons R.A.E.C. Mons may refer to one of two Belgian football clubs A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, ...

: 1962 to 1965 *

Union Saint-Gilloise Royale Union Saint-Gilloise , abbreviated to Union SG or USG, unofficially simply called Union, is a Belgian football club originally located in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, in Brussels, although since the 1920s it has been based at the Jo ...

: 1965 to 1966

Honours as coach

* Champions of Belgium :

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

(with Standard, 1st national professional title for the club) * Coupe de Belgique :

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

(with Standard, 1st cup for the club, as pros.)

References

French men's footballers Racing Club de France Football players French football managers Standard Liège managers Red Star F.C. managers Royale Union Saint-Gilloise managers 1918 births 2005 deaths Footballers from Toulouse Amiens SC managers AS Béziers Hérault (football) managers Men's association football forwards {{France-footy-forward-1910s-stub