Angélique Roujas
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-09-15) 15 September 1974
Place of birth Château-du-Loir, France
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1996 Le Mans FC
1996–2001 La Roche ESOF
International career
1995–2001 France 51 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Angélique Roujas (born 15 September 1974 in Château-du-Loir) is a French former women's international footballer who played as a forward. She was a member of the France women's national football team. She was the general manager of FC Metz from 2014 to 2019.

Personal life

Roujas is from Château-du-Loir (now part of Montval-sur-Loir).[1] She was worked as a physical education teacher (EPS in French).[2]

Career

Roujas started playing regional football. After playing for a few months, she was signed by Le Mans FC in 1993.[2] In 1996, she signed for La Roche ESOF,[2][3] who had just been promoted to Division 1 Féminine.[4]

Roujas made 51 appearances for France between 1995 and 2001,[5]: 214  and competed at UEFA Women's Euro 1997 and UEFA Women's Euro 2001.[3] In a Euro 1997 match against Russia, Roujas scored a hat-trick as France won 3–0.[6] She also scored in a 1–1 draw against Spain.[5]: 25  Roujas was joint top scorer at the tournament, alongside Italy's Carolina Morace and Norway's Marianne Pettersen.[7][lower-alpha 1] She retired after Euro 2001 for personal reasons.[2]

From 2004 to 2014, Roujas was head of the CNFE Clairefontaine, the French women's football national training centre.[2][8] From 2014 to 2019, Roujas was the general manager of FC Metz.[1] Whilst general manager, she helped set up a regional training network, to encourage local footballers to join the FC Metz first team.[9] She particularly focused on getting girls between the ages of 6 and 13 into football.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ UEFA have misspelt Roujas' surname as Rouhas in the source.

References

  1. 1 2 "FC Metz : Angélique Roujas quitte son poste de manager général". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 26 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Angélique Roujas assure la relève". Le Parisien (in French). 2 March 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 "2001 UEFA Women's Championship". .rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Quand les championnes dormaient à la maison..." Ouest-France (in French). 22 June 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  5. 1 2 Gaillard, Claire (2019). Dans les coulisses avec les Bleues: L'histoire du foot au féminin (in French). Hachette Pratique. ISBN 9782017055365.
  6. ↑ "Our Lionesses are taking women's football to new heights". Evening Standard. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "UEFA Women's EURO facts and figures". UEFA. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "D1 (5/12) - Le FC METZ doit trouver sa place" (in French). Footo Feminin. 13 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Football : Metz et Algrange bientôt séparés pour la bonne cause". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 24 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "FC Metz-Algrange : Angélique Roujas, tête pensante". Moselle Sport (in French). 12 November 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

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