Florian Maurice

Florian Maurice (born 20 January 1974) is a French football executive and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He most notably won the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with French team Paris Saint-Germain. He played six games and scored a single goal for the France national team, also representing his nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is currently the technical director of Ligue 1 club Rennes.[1]

Florian Maurice
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-01-20) 20 January 1974
Place of birth Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Rennes (technical director)
Youth career
Lyon
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1997 Lyon 126 (44)
1997–1998 Paris Saint-Germain 29 (7)
1998–2002 Marseille 83 (30)
2001–2002 → Celta Vigo (loan) 11 (2)
2002–2004 Bastia 73 (18)
2004–2005 Istres 14 (0)
2005 Châteauroux 10 (1)
Total 325 (95)
International career
1994–1996 France U21 21 (15)
1996–1999 France 6 (1)
Managerial career
2009–2020 Lyon (scout)
2020– Rennes (technical director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Florian Maurice started playing youth football with local top-flight team Olympique Lyonnais in 1986. A great hope in French football, Maurice was touted as the new Jean-Pierre Papin.[2] He was included in Lyonnais' senior squad for the Ligue 1 championship in the 1991–92 season, but did not make his Ligue 1 debut until August 1992. His national breakthrough came during the 1994–95 season, when he scored 15 league goals. In the 1995–96 season, he scored 18 league goals for Lyonnais and took part in both the 1996 European Under-21 Championship and 1996 Summer Olympics tournaments.[3]

He made his debut for the France national team in August 1996, under national manager Aimé Jacquet. However, Maurice's progress was halted during the 1996–97 season, when he suffered a ruptured achilles tendon and went through several months of recovery. In the summer 1997, he moved from Lyonnais to league rivals Paris Saint-Germain in a transfer deal worth FF 41 million.[2] He was a part of the Paris SG team which won both the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue trophies.[4][5] He played a single season at Paris SG, scoring seven league goals, before he moved on to Olympique de Marseille in the summer 1998.

In his first season at Marseille, Maurice recovered his goal scoring ability, and netted 14 league goals. Marseille reached the final of the international 1999 UEFA Cup tournament, but lost 0–3 to Parma AC from Italy. The following two years at Marseille, Maurice suffered several minor injuries, and could not establish himself in the Marseille starting line-up. He played his last match for the France national team in November 1999, scoring his only national team goal in a 3–0 win against Croatia, before being dropped by new national team manager Roger Lemerre.

He moved abroad in the summer 2001, to play for Celta de Vigo in Spain. After a single, unsuccessful year at the club, he returned to France to play for Ligue 1 club SC Bastia. He had moderate success at Bastia, but when his contract expired in the summer 2004, only newly promoted team FC Istres were in need of his services. He failed to score any goals for the relegation battling Istres team, and left the club in January 2005. He moved to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux, where he played until he retired in September 2005.

Later career

From 2009 until 2020, Maurice worked as a scout for Lyon. In June 2020, he was hired by Rennes as technical director.[6]

Honours

Paris Saint-Germain

Individual

References
  1. "Joe Rodon est Rouge et Noir !". STADE RENNAIS F.C. (in French). 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  2. (in French) Guirec Gombert, Florian Maurice: une reconversion réussie, le Figaro, 30 June 2008.
  3. "Florian Maurice :: Florian Maurice ::".
  4. "PSG – Bordeaux 2-2 (4-2 tab), 04/04/98, Coupe de la Ligue 97-98". archivesparisfootball.wordpress.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  5. "PSG – Lens 2-1, 02/05/98, Coupe de France 97-98". archivesparisfootball.wordpress.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. Florian Maurice gets Stade Rennais FC gig, ligue1.com, 2 June 2020
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