Fabrice Lepaul (17 November 1976 – 23 May 2020) was a French professional

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 ...

who played as a striker. He was a squad member for the

1993 UEFA European Under-16 Championship The 1993 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the eleventh edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. Turkey hosted the championship, during 24 April – 8 May 1993. 16 teams entered the competition, and Poland defeated Italy in ...

. Lepaul died on 23 May 2020 in a car accident that occurred during the night of Thursday to Friday in the

Baldenheim Baldenheim () is a Communes of France, commune in the Bas-Rhin Departments of France, department in the Alsace region of north-eastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Baldenheimois'' or ''Baldenheimoises''. The commune has ...

sector, in the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

region of north-eastern France.

Honours

Player

Auxerre *

French Division 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

: 1995–96 *

Coupe de France The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Charles Simon, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organized by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is open to all amateur and profession ...

: 1993–94, 1995–96 *

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

Saint-Étienne *

French Division 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de ...

: 1998–99

References

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