Florian Maurice (born 20 January 1974) is a French football executive and former professional
footballer
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who played as a
striker. He most notably won the 1998
Coupe de France
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and
Coupe de la Ligue
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with French team
Paris Saint-Germain
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. He played six games and scored a single goal for the
France national team, also representing his nation at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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. He is currently the technical director of
Ligue 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 ...
club
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
.
Career
Born in
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (, literally ''Sainte-Foy near Lyon'') is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
Geography
It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, located to the west of the city.
It is located ...
,
Rhône
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, Florian Maurice started playing youth football with local top-flight team
Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...
in 1986. A great hope in
French football
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, Maurice was touted as the new
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin (born 5 November 1963) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He was named the Ballon d'Or and IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer of the Year in 1991. Papin was known for ...
.
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Florian Maurice: une reconversion réussie
le Figaro
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, 30 June 2008. He was included in Lyonnais' senior squad for the
Ligue 1
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championship in the 1991–92 season, but did not make his Ligue 1 debut until August 1992. His national breakthrough came during the 1994–95 season, when he scored 15 league goals. In the 1995–96 season, he scored 18 league goals for Lyonnais and took part in both the
1996 European Under-21 Championship and
1996 Summer Olympics
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tournaments.
He made his debut for the French national team in August 1996, under national manager
Aimé Jacquet
Aimé Étienne Jacquet (born 27 November 1941) is a French former professional football manager and player. He was manager of the France national football team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Biography
Jacquet was born in Sail-sous-Couzan, L ...
. However, Maurice's progress was halted during the 1996–97 season, when he suffered a ruptured
achilles tendon
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and went through several months of recovery. In the summer 1997, he moved from Lyonnais to league rivals
Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...
in a transfer deal worth
FF 41 million.
He was a part of the Paris SG team which won both the 1998
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 ...
and
Coupe de la Ligue
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trophies. He played a single season at Paris SG, scoring seven league goals, before he moved on to
Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club pl ...
in the summer 1998.
In his first season at Marseille, Maurice recovered his goal scoring ability, and netted 14 league goals. Marseille reached the final of the international 1999
UEFA Cup
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tournament, but lost 0–3 to
Parma AC
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''Parma Football Club'' was originally founded in Decembe ...
from Italy. The following two years at Marseille, Maurice suffered several minor injuries, and could not establish himself in the Marseille starting line-up. He played his last match for the French national team in November 1999, scoring his only national team goal in a 3–0 win against
Croatia
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, before being dropped by new national team manager
Roger Lemerre
Roger Léon Maurice Lemerre-Desprez (born 18 June 1941) is a French professional football manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of the French, Tunisian and Moroccan national teams. He also managed numerous ...
.
He moved abroad in the summer 2001, to play for
Celta de Vigo
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in Spain. After a single, unsuccessful year at the club, he returned to France to play for Ligue 1 club
SC Bastia
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. He had moderate success at Bastia, but when his contract expired in the summer 2004, only newly
promoted team
FC Istres
Football Club Istres Ouest Provence (; commonly referred to as simply Istres) is a French association football club based in Istres. The club was formed in 1920 and currently play their home matches at the Stade Parsemain in Fos-sur-Mer, a com ...
were in need of his services. He failed to score any goals for the
relegation
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battling Istres team, and left the club in January 2005. He moved to
Ligue 2
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club
LB Châteauroux
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, where he played until he retired in September 2005.
Later career
From 2009 until 2020, Maurice worked as a scout for
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
. In June 2020, he was hired by
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
as technical director.
Florian Maurice gets Stade Rennais FC gig
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Honours
Paris Saint-Germain
*Coupe de France
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: 1997–98
*Coupe de la Ligue
The Coupe de la Ligue (), known outside France as the French League Cup, was a Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Football in France, French football organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel. The tournament was est ...
: 1997–98
Individual
* Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year: 1995
References
External links
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FFF profile
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1974 births
Living people
People from Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon
Association football forwards
French footballers
France international footballers
France under-21 international footballers
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of France
Olympique Lyonnais players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
Olympique de Marseille players
La Liga players
Ligue 1 players
RC Celta de Vigo players
SC Bastia players
FC Istres players
LB Châteauroux players
French expatriate footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Sportspeople from Lyon Metropolis
Footballers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes