JS Saint-Pierre

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The JS Saint-Pierre , in the French-speaking world full name Jeunesse Sportive Saint-Pierroise , is a football club from the south of Reunion Island port city of Saint-Pierre . The JSSP is the most successful club on the island, which lies off the east coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and is an overseas department of France .

history

The venue of the JS Saint-Pierre

JS Saint-Pierre was founded in 1950. The club colors are black and white; the teams of the JSSP are therefore also known as Les cigognes (the storks ), and the current club crest also includes this bird.

The first division eleven competing under amateur conditions - the D1 Promotionelle , based on the league system of France, corresponds to the sixth highest division Division d'Honneur , which has been called Régional 1 in the mother country since 2017 - plays its home games in the Stade Michel-Volnay , which was built in 2010 and has a capacity of has a good 8,000 seats.

A contractual cooperation with the Le Havre AC has existed for a number of years ; This doyen of French football trains youth players from Jeunesse Sportive in his youth center and benefits from this collaboration himself. The agreement was renewed in 2019.

successes

With 21 national championship titles (most recently five times in a row since 2015), JS Saint-Pierre is the most successful club in La Réunion. There are quite strong competitors there, namely the US Stade Tamponnaise and AS Saint-Louis . The JSSP won the seasons of 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In addition The club is eleven times winner of the national cup, which has been held since 1957 (1959, 1962, 1971, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018 and 2019), and has already won seven doublés , i.e. championship and cup competition in the same season.

As only the second club from one of the French overseas territories - previously only Geldar Kourou from Guiana ( 1989 ) had done this - JS Saint-Pierre managed to reach the sixteenth-finals in the 2019/20 cup season for the Coupe de France , after the Team had prevailed on the pitch of the second division Chamois Niort with 2: 1. This big surprise was even worth a front page (“The Keys to Paradise”) for the sports daily L'Équipe . Then Saint-Pierre's coach stunned the public by stating that he would rather be eliminated from a strong first division club in the next round instead of the fourth division SAS Épinal - to which the JSSP then lost 1-0 after extra time - possibly a chance at that To have progressed.

Well-known players and coaches

Florent Sinama-Pongolle
Dimitri Payet

Numerous players who took their first steps with the “Storks” as children or young people later found their way from La Réunion to French professional football, sometimes also to the senior national team . Several of them then returned to their first training association in Saint-Pierre. Without claiming to be exhaustive, Didier Agathe , El Fardou Ben Nabouhane , Jean-Pascal Fontaine , Guillaume Hoarau , Pius N'Diefi , Dimitri Payet , Florent Sinama-Pongolle and Daniel Wansi should be mentioned here.

In addition, the club was one of their last stops for some well-known players whose careers were drawing to a close. This group includes, for example, Roger Milla (1989–1990), “Tony” Kurbos (1991), Jean-Pierre Papin (1999), Djibril Cissé (2015) and, most recently, Elliot Grandin (since 2019).

Among the best known coaches who have trained the white black and include, among other Oscar Muller , Victor Zvunka and Jean-Francis Samba .

Since the beginning of the 21st century, individual soccer players like Fanny Hoarau from Saint-Pierre have also switched to a first division in mainland France.

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ A picture of the club's coat of arms can be found here at fr.wikipedia.org.
  2. ↑ Article “ The Havre Athletic Club renews football with Réunions” from April 12, 2019 at zinfos974.com
  3. ↑ see the list of Réunion masters at rsssf.com
  4. ↑ see the list of Réunions cup winners at rsssf.com
  5. ↑ Article “ Saint-Pierroise meets Épinal in the sixteenth-finals ” from January 6, 2020 at francetvinfo.fr; there is also the image of the L'Équipe front page from January 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Article " A bit disappointed ... " from January 6, 2020 at francefootball.fr