Peggy Provost

Provost (2014)

Peggy Provost (born September 19, 1977 in Bourg-en-Bresse ) is a former French football player ; after finishing her active career, she works as a trainer and association official.

Club career

Peggy Provost joined the women's football department of Racing Club Flacé-Mâcon in 1992 at the age of 14 . In 1993 she joined the Sporting Club Caluire , one of the oldest French women's clubs , and soon grew into the first team. The 1.65 m tall defender was unable to win a title there; She only succeeded in doing this when she moved to Juvisy FCF in 1996 , with whom she won the French women's championship a year later . She was then accepted into the training center of the national football association , the Center technique national Fernand-Sastre , while playing for CO Les Ulis , a small club from the south-western periphery of Paris . In 1999 she returned to Juvisy FCF, for which she was active until 2009. With their wives, she won two further national championship titles in 2003 and 2006 (alongside Sandrine Soubeyrand , Laëtitia Tonazzi , Marinette Pichon and Élise Bussaglia, among others ) and the French women's cup (Challenge de France) in 2005 , although she was missing in the final.

As a national player

Between February 1998, when the national coach Élisabeth Loisel used her for the first time in a friendship game against England in the senior national team , and September 2006 Peggy Provost played 91 senior international matches for the Bleues and scored two goals. She had quickly become a regular player, mostly as a full-back, and when the French had qualified for the 2001 European Championship in Germany , she was one of Loisel's final squad. However, due to a serious injury to the cruciate ligament and meniscus at the end of May and thus shortly before the start of the finals, Provost had to cancel. This injury cost her a year of her career; only in mid-April 2002 she came back to an international match. But she was at the 2003 World Cup in the USA as well as in the French squad at the 2005 European Championship in England . In both tournaments, in which France were eliminated in the preliminary round, she played all three games.

Life after player time

Peggy Provost 2017 in a press conference during the EM in the Netherlands

Peggy Provost coached the U-19 girls of Juvisy FCF, who led them into the 2012 final of Challenge U-19 , the national A youth cup competition and female counterpart of the Coupe Gambardella . In December 2012, she was elected to succeed Marilou Duringer for an initial four years in the 20-strong Haute Autorité du Football (HAF) , the highest governing body of the French football association FFF . In October 2016 she took on Olivier Echouafni , the new coach of France's A-Women’s team, as an assistant trainer, and six months later Peggy Provost was confirmed as a member of the HAF for another four years.

When Echouafni was replaced by Corinne Diacre at the beginning of September 2017 , the national team chapter also ended for Peggy Provost. Six months later, she was appointed coach of the national military choice of women to 2016 under Élisabeth Loisel won world title to defend in June 2018 in the US.

She has been the head coach of the French U-16 girls' selection since October 2019.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1997, 2003, 2006
• French cup winner: 2005
• 91 international appearances (2 goals) for France

Web links

• Provosts data sheet on the website of the French Football Association FFF

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see the season overview 2002/03 and 2005/06 at rsssf.com
2. ↑ see the season dates 2004/05 at rsssf.com
3. ↑ see the article “Peggy Provost, the great absentee” in Le Parisien on June 28, 2001
4. ↑ For the finale, see the article at footofeminin.fr.
5. ↑ see the election results for the HAF ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from December 15, 2012 on the association's website
6. ^ Election results from March 18, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
7. ↑ Article “ Peggy Provost nominated for the top of the military selection ” from April 6, 2018 at footofeminin.fr