Matthieu Louis-Jean
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 22 February 1976 | ||
Place of birth | Mont-Saint-Aignan, France | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Olympique Lyonnais (Head Scout) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1999 | Le Havre | ? | (?) |
1998–1999 | → Nottingham Forest (loan) | 16 | (0) |
1999–2005 | Nottingham Forest | 182 | (3) |
2005–2007 | Norwich City | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC) |
Matthieu Louis-Jean (born 22 February 1976 in Mont-Saint-Aignan) is a French former footballer, who is currently head scout for Olympique Lyonnais. He finished his career at Norwich in June 2005 after several seasons at Nottingham Forest, who he joined from Le Havre in 1999 following a loan spell. An experienced full-back, Louis-Jean made 198 league appearances for Forest. His transfer to Norwich was a player exchange deal that saw Gary Holt move to the City Ground.
Louis-Jean made just two appearances for Norwich at the start of his first season with the club (2005–06) before injury problems ruled him out of action for the remainder of the campaign. The Frenchman was near a return to the first team, but an injury playing for the reserve team saw his recovery set back yet again.
Norwich manager Peter Grant announced in February 2007 that Louis-Jean would be released at the end of the 2006–07 season.
Louis-Jean spent time as a scout for Nottingham Forest, before joining Marseille as head scout in April 2021. Then, in July 2023, he joined Lyon with the same job.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "OM : arrivée d'un nouveau responsable de la cellule de recrutement". LaProvence.com (in French). 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
External links
[edit]- Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk
- Matthieu Louis-Jean at Soccerbase
- 1976 births
- Living people
- French men's footballers
- Le Havre AC players
- Nottingham Forest F.C. players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Premier League players
- Expatriate men's footballers in England
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Sportspeople from Mont-Saint-Aignan
- Footballers from Seine-Maritime
- English Football League players
- French football defender, 1970s birth stubs