Jean-Pierre François

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Jean-Pierre François
Personnel
birthday June 7, 1965
place of birth Pont-à-Mousson ,  France
size 186 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
CS Blénod
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982-1984 CS Blénod 18 (1)
1984-1987 Cercle Laïque Dijon
1987-1988 AS Saint-Etienne 5 (0)
1987-1988 AS Saint-Etienne B 15 (7)
1988-1989 FC Basel
1 Only league games are given.

Jean-Pierre François (born June 7, 1965 in Pont-à-Mousson , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle ) is a former French football player on the position of a striker and former pop singer who made it to second place in the French music charts .

Football career

Jean-Pierre François began his football career at CS Blénod in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson . There Coco, his nickname at the time, made his breakthrough in the men's team, which used him in 18 league games in the 1982/83 season, where he scored one goal. The team was promoted from the French third division to Division 2 in 1982 . At the end of the season, the team trained by Titi Dorget could not hold the class and rose again to the third highest football league in the country. François went with the team the way in this league and in 1984 switched to league rivals Cercle Laïque Dijon , the predecessor of FCO Dijon. There he was used as an attacking player in the following three seasons and rose with the team in the 1986/87 season in Division 2.

Before the rise of his team, he made the leap to Division 1 , where he came under contract with AS Saint-Étienne , who had just risen as runner-up in Division 2 . There he completed only six competitive games for the professional team under Robert Herbin , who had replaced Henryk Kasperczak as coach that summer . He made his league debut on October 17, 1987 in a 1-0 home win over AS Cannes , when he was substituted on in the 72nd minute for Thierry Couralt , who was also of the same age and who soon followed a career as a musician. By the end of 1987, three more championship appearances followed, none of which he brought over the full length of the game. His next use followed on March 12, 1988 in the thirty-second finals of the Coupe de France 1987/88 , when ASSE was eliminated from the tournament on penalties with 1: 4 against the second division club FC Mulhouse . On the 32nd matchday of the 1987/88 season , François made a fifth short appearance in Division 1 when he came on the field in the 88th minute for Pascal Françoise in the 3-0 win over AS Monaco . The rest of the season he stayed mostly with the reserve team, for which he scored seven goals in 15 league appearances.

After the hopelessness of making the breakthrough at ASSE - in 1987/88 with Patrice Garande , Philippe Tibeuf and Mustafa El Haddaoui , three offensive players scored a double-digit number of hits - he moved to Switzerland for FC Basel for the 1988/89 season and concentrated at that time, however, already on his next career step. After he appeared at FC Basel, who had since been relegated from National League A to National League B , he and the team made it to first place in Group East of National League B in the 1988/89 season and moved into the final stage with the team - / relegation round. There the team achieved fourth place in group A, but failed to return to the top class, as only the two best placed in a group were eligible for promotion. At the end of the 1988/89 season, François ended his career as a professional footballer at the age of 23.

François as a musician

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Je te survivrai
  FR 2 06/24/1989 (23 weeks)
Il a neige sur les lacs
  FR 6th 01/20/1990 (17 weeks)
Des nuits
  FR 38 05/12/1990 (4 weeks)

In the same year, François started a career as a pop singer . At the beginning of 1989 he met the composer Didier Barbelivien in a restaurant in Paris . Barbelivien recognized the 23-year-old's potential and was able to convince him to appear as a singer. With the song Je te survivrai , which Barbelivien had written during the first test recordings, François had an immediate breakthrough: The single reached number two in the French music charts, where it was represented for 23 weeks.

In the same year of the publication of Je te survivrai , the parody Vous me subirez by the French comedian group Les Nuls , based on it, appeared in which Jean-Pierre François was portrayed by Patrick Sébastien and ridiculed.

François continued his career as a singer until the early 1990s and achieved a position in the French charts with two other titles from his debut album Des nuits : Il a neigé sur les lacs made it to position six and was represented for 17 weeks . The title track of the album, which was subsequently decoupled as a single, was only able to stay in the charts for four weeks and did not get over 38th place.

In 1992 he appeared alongside the American-born singer Debbie Davis, who was naturalized in France, and recorded the song Y'a des heures with her . Didier Barbelivien played a leading role in all of his songs.

Shortly afterwards, François withdrew from the public, mainly to protect his family from the media and thus to protect his private life. In 2004, his daughter Sandy appeared on the fourth season of the French version of Star Academy as a singer, including in a duet with her father. However, he declined a permanent return to the limelight, as he believed the music industry was made up of hypocrites.

Private life

Shortly after retiring into private life, he opened a discotheque in Saint-Cyprien in the Pyrénées-Orientales department and ran it until the early 2000s before selling it. He also ran the bar / PMU Chez Tony for years with his partner Sandrine Margueritte and her friend Lila Monit, among others . in Ramatuelle and for a longer time the so-called Var Matin in the neighboring town of Saint-Tropez . In Cavalaire-sur-Mer he also ran the La péniche restaurant , which he also sold after a few years.

In 2002 he became Vice President of the FootBall Club de Ramatuelle from Ramatuelle on the Côte d'Azur , after having been elected honorary president shortly before.

Web links

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ Mission data exclusively from the second division season 1982/83
  2. ^ Jean-Pierre François: les Fonderies et un tube , accessed December 25, 2017
  3. ↑ Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  4. ↑ Chart sources: FR
  5. ^ A b Jean-Pierre François, le survivor des Années 80! (French), accessed December 25, 2017
  6. ↑ Je te survivrai on lescharts.com (French), accessed December 20, 2017
  7. ^ Les trésors de la D2: Jean-Pierre FRANÇOIS (French), accessed December 25, 2017
  8. ↑ Il a neigé sur les lacs on lescharts.com (French), accessed December 20, 2017
  9. ↑ Des nuits on lescharts.com (French), accessed December 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Y'a des heures on lescharts.com (French), accessed on December 20, 2017
  11. ↑ Star Academy 4 - Sandy et Jean-Pierre François - Sang pour sang (French), accessed December 20, 2017
  12. ↑ a b c d Que devient Jean-Pierre FRANÇOIS? (French), accessed December 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME François, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-à-Mousson , Meurthe-et-Moselle department , France