![]() Elie with Lens in 1975 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 30 September 1950 | ||
Place of birth | Longchamp-sur-Aujon, France | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Cherbourg (manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1967–1978 | Lens | 272+[a] | (54+) |
1978–1981 | Saint-Étienne | 90 | (8) |
Total | 362+ | (62+) | |
International career | |||
1973 | France B | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1984–2007 | UST Equeurdreville | ||
2019– | Cherbourg | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jean-Marie Elie (born 30 September 1950) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. As of the 2021–22 season, he is the head coach of Championnat National 3 club Cherbourg.[2] During his playing career of fourteen years, he played for Lens and Saint-Étienne, notably winning the Division 1 in the 1980–81 season with the latter.[3]
Elie made one appearance for the France B national team in a 1–1 friendly draw to Cercle Brugge on 20 November 1973.[4]
Elie retired from football in 1981. From 1983 to 1984, he worked as the sporting director of his former club Saint-Étienne.[2] He would then go on to be the manager of UST Equeurdreville from 1984 to 2007, a managerial reign of twenty-three years.[2] Later, he started working as a sport educator and coach for the Lecanu futsal team. In September 2009, he received the Trophée Georges-Boulogne, a trophy awarded by the Amicale des éducateurs de football.[5]
From 2017 to 2019, Elie worked as a member of staff at Cherbourg.[2] In January 2019, he took over the club's head coach position.[6]
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