Angélique Roujas

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Angélique Roujas (born September 15, 1974 in Château-du-Loir , today: Montval-sur-Loir ) is a former French football player and coach.

Club career

From 1991, Angélique Roujas, who was only 16 at the time, was used in the women's team at the US Le Mans , with whom she was promoted to the top division in France in 1995 . Shortly thereafter, she came to her first appointment in the national team (see below) . A year later, she moved to the league competitors of ESOF La Roche . Their women developed into one of the strongest in France in the second half of the 1990s, to which, in addition to the attacker Roujas, other national players such as Sarah M'Barek and Hoda Lattaf contributed. In 1999 and 2001 the team only narrowly failed to win the title - Toulouse OAC prevailed in both seasons - and had to be content with the runner-up in Division 1 . Immediately afterwards, before her 27th birthday, Angélique Roujas ended her playing career “for personal reasons”.

In the national team

In September 1995, Angélique Roujas made her debut in a friendship game against Hungary for the first time in the French national team , and national coach Aimé Mignot also called her regularly in this circle. At the 1997 European Women's Championship , she played all of the preliminary rounds of the Bleues against Spain , Russia and Sweden and made a name for herself as a successful goalscorer - she scored all four French goals. Nevertheless, France's women were eliminated from the competition early, if only because of the slightly worse goal difference compared to the Spanish women.

When the French qualified again for the European Championship finals in 2001 , Mignot's successor Élisabeth Loisel also called Angélique Roujas into the EM squad . At the tournament in Germany , however, the coach left her on the bench in the last preliminary round match against Italy . Since Roujas then ended her career, the previous encounter against Denmark was her last in the national dress. In just under six years she had played 51 international matches and scored a total of 14 goals; in France's 14-0 record win over Algeria , she scored three times alone. It was also used against Switzerland (1997, 1998 and 2001) and Germany (1999).

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1999, 2001
  • 51 caps (14 goals) for France

Life after the time as a player

The trained teacher accepted a job as a youth coach at the regional football association for Basse-Normandie in 2001 , earned several football teacher diplomas and in 2004 accepted the offer of her former club coach from La Roche-sur-Yon , in the "football squad forge" Center technique national Fernand- Sastre in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines to work with the French girls' teams as his assistant coach . In February 2006, she replaced her mentor as the main person in charge of this area and trained the first division women of CNFE Clairefontaine for nine months . Until the end of 2012 she worked for the national association FFF and supervised the French selection of U-17 girls.

Since the beginning of the 2014/15 season , she has been the sports director of the women's football department at FC Metz . At Metz, she also took over training for the first division women for the last three match days in April 2019.

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See the article "Angélique Roujas assure la relève" of March 2, 2006 in Le Parisien ; however, the article contains some inaccuracies regarding Roujas' playing career.
  2. ↑ see the season overviews for 1998/99 and 2000/01 at rsssf.com
  3. ↑ Article “Metz must find its place” from August 26, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ " Angélique Roujas terminera la Saison sur le banc de Metz " from April 13, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Roujas, Angélique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Château-du-Loir