Jean-Pierre Papin

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Jean-Pierre Papin

Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ papɛ̃]; born 5 November 1963) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He is the head coach of Championnat National 3 club Marseille B. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1991.

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Jean-Pierre Papin
Papin during a charity match in 2016
Personal information
Full name Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin
Date of birth (1963-11-05) 5 November 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Marseille B (head coach)
Youth career
1969–1978 Jeumont
1978–1980 Trith-Saint-Léger
1980–1981 Valenciennes
1981–1984 INF Vichy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1984 INF Vichy 49 (13)
1984–1985 Valenciennes 33 (15)
1985–1986 Club Brugge 33 (21)
1986–1992 Marseille 214 (134)
1992–1994 AC Milan 40 (18)
1994–1996 Bayern Munich 27 (3)
1996–1998 Bordeaux 55 (22)
1998–1999 Guingamp 10 (3)
1999–2001 JS Saint-Pierroise 27 (13)
2001–2004 US Lège-Cap-Ferret 57 (24)
Total 545 (266)
International career
1985–1986 France U21 4 (3)
1986–1995 France 54 (30)
Managerial career
2004–2006 Arcachon
2006–2007 Strasbourg
2007–2008 Lens
2009–2010 Châteauroux
2014–2015 Bassin d'Arcachon
2020–2022 C'Chartres
2023– Marseille B
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  France
FIFA World Cup
1986
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Papin was included in the FIFA 100, a list of the greatest living footballers, published in 2004 for the centenary of the FIFA, signed by Pelé. He was named one of the best European footballers on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the UEFA in 2004. He is famous in particular for his first-time strikes from distance, his overhead kicks, and his volleys, which are known as Papinades. The nickname of JPP was given to him by supporters and journalists.

Trained at Jeumont, Papin signed his first professional contract in 1984 at Valenciennes. Recruited by Brugge, he won the Belgian Cup and went on to be selected for the French team for the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Signed by Marseille, he experienced the pinnacle of his career as he won Ligue 1 titles with Marseille in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992, the Coupe de France in 1989 and reached the final of the UEFA Champions League in 1991. In 1992, he left Olympique de Marseille for AC Milan in a record transfer; he won Serie A in 1994 and the UEFA Champions League. He joined Bayern Munich, where he won the UEFA Cup in 1996. He returned to France, to Bordeaux, where he was a finalist in the Coupe de la Ligue in 1997 and 1998 and then ended his professional career at Guingamp.

Capped 54 times, and captained 11 times, Papin played in the French team which reached the 1986 World Cup Semi final. France failed to qualify for either the 1988 European Championships or the 1990 World Cup but he was part of the team for Euro 1992. Injuries and the emergence of the Zinedine Zidane generation saw his international career come to an end in the mid-1990s. He was out of favour by Euro'96 nor was he part of the set up which won the World Cup in 1998.

In 1996, after their eight-month-old daughter was shown to have serious cerebral lesions, Jean-Pierre and his wife set up an association "Neuf de Coeur" (Nine of Hearts; Papin's shirt number was 9) to help others in that situation and, particularly, to find and apply methods to mentally and physically educate such children.

Early life

Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin[2] was born on 5 November 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais,[1] the son of professional footballer Guy Papin.[3] After his parents divorced, he moved to live with his grandmother in Germont, a French city located near the Belgian border.[3]

Club career

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Valenciennes

At age 15, Papin started his professional career with Valenciennes, in Northern France, before moving to Club Brugge in Belgium.[4]

Brugge

Papin had a very successful first season at Club Brugge, scoring 32 goals in 43 games. Although he only played one season for Club Brugge, he was elected as its greatest ever foreign player by the supporters in 2008.[5]

Marseille

During Papin's hugely successful spell at Marseille, with the Frenchman as striker and skipper Marseille won four French league championships in a row (1989–1992), a league and cup double in 1989 and reached the final of the European Cup in 1991, losing to Red Star Belgrade on penalties.[6]

During this period, Papin scored 181 goals in 279 games[7] and was the league's top scorer for five consecutive seasons (from 1988 to 1992). While at Marseille he won the Ballon d'Or, awarded to Europe's top footballer, in 1991.[8]

AC Milan

In July 1992, Papin joined Italian giants AC Milan for a world record fee of £10 million,[9] and was the first high-profile French player to join the Italian league since Michel Platini. However, he never established himself as a regular first team member with the rossoneri due to injuries and adaptation problems. As a foreign player in the Pre-Bosman rule era, Papin also suffered from the three-foreigner rule that made him compete for playing time with other foreign players.[clarification needed][citation needed]

He entered as a substitute during the 1993 Champions League final in which Milan lost to his former club, Marseille. He won the Champions League in the next year, but did not play in the final.[7] Nevertheless, Papin has kept good memories of his spell in Italy and frequently cites former Milan managers Fabio Capello[10] and Arrigo Sacchi as his models when coaching is concerned.[citation needed]

Bayern Munich

In 1994, he was transferred to Bayern Munich for £2.1 million,[11] but his first season was once again plagued by injuries. In his second season in Germany he was part of the side that won the UEFA Cup against Bordeaux, a club that Papin would join the following season.[citation needed] He was twice linked with clubs in England later in his playing career. First, in March 1994, he was a transfer target for Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.[12] Towards the end of his spell with Bordeaux in 1998, he was a target for ambitious Fulham, then a Division Two (third tier) side, and even expressed his desire to sign for the club. However, neither transfer ever happened and Papin finished his career without having spent any time in England.[13]

Bordeaux

With Bordeaux, he lost the 1997 Coupe de la Ligue final against Strasbourg and lost the 1998 Coupe de la Ligue final.

Guingamp

Papin's professional career ended in 1998 with Second Division side Guingamp.[14]

Later career

Papin finished his career as a player in the amateur club US Cap-Ferret between 2001 and 2004. Then, after five years of managing, he played in another amateur club, AS Facture-Biganos Boïen.[15]

International career

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Papin playing for France at the 1986 World Cup

Papin was selected for the first time in the French team during the Toulon Tournament in 1985 in Marseille with the number 14, alongside Pascal Baills, Stéphane Paille, Gérald Passi, Franck Sauzée, Vincent Cobos and Jean-Christophe Thomas. The France team won the Toulon Tournament and successively defeated Spain (Jon Andoni Goikoetxea), Romania (Gheorghe Popescu), Ivory Coast (Joël Tiéhi) and England (Martin Allen). Papin finished as the tournament's top scorer and it was during the match against Spain that Papin scored his first official goal at the Stade Vélodrome.

Papin earned his first cap in a friendly match against Northern Ireland in February 1986[16] and appeared at the 1986 World Cup. He scored twice in four games: first during France opening game against Canada (1–0) and then during France's victory against Belgium (4–2), helping France finish third.[17]

He did not appear at the 1990 World Cup because France failed to qualify, but during the qualifying campaign for UEFA Euro 1992 he finished second top scorer in the Qualifiers of the 1992 European Football Championship with nine goals behind Darko Pančev and the France team is the only one to win all its playoff matches, a first in Europe and this in a very strong group with two quarter-finalists of the previous World Cup, Spain and Czechoslovakia. Papin who suffers from the aftermath of an ankle injury cannot prevent France from failing in the first round, despite scoring two goals in three games[18]

The French football team, trained by Gérard Houllier, played in the 1994 World Cup qualifiers but got off to a bad start (2–0 defeat in Bulgaria), but a series of 6 wins against Austria (twice), Finland (twice), Sweden and Israel put them back at the top of the group and in a very favorable position for qualification with three rounds to go. The French team, undermined by internal quarrels (Marseille-Paris rivalry), however collapsed in the final sprint by conceding a draw in Sweden (1–1 on a defensive error three minutes from the end) and during the two last games played at home, where they only had to beat Israel or not lose against Bulgaria, to score the ticket for the United States. The Blues lost against the weakest team in the group, Israel (2–3 on a goal by Atar 30 seconds from the end of the match), then against Bulgaria (1–2 on a goal by Emil Kostadinov two seconds the end of regulation time), this goal depriving France of participation in the World Cup. The two qualifiers of this group 6, Sweden and Bulgaria, would reach the semi-finals of the World Cup in July 1994.

Papin initially said goodbye to the Blues of which he was the captain after the elimination in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup, before being convinced by Aimé Jacquet to return. He scored his last goal in selection at Trebizond in Turkey (match relocated because of troubles in Azerbaijan) against Azerbaijan (2–0) at the end of 1994. Papin played his last international match against the Netherlands in January 1995, before injuries and the emergence of the Zinédine Zidane generation permanently removed him from the selection.

Style of play

Papin has been described as "a fast and lethal striker, who made goal scoring his signature for club and country"[19] and a player who could score in a variety of situation, "from neat, chipped finishes, low drives into the corner, towering headers and, in particular, thumping volleys."[3]

During his career, the term Papinade was used to describe powerful volleys from difficult angles.[10]

Managerial career

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Papin as Strasbourg manager in 2006

In May 2006, Papin took over from Jacky Duguépéroux as the new coach of Strasbourg, who were relegated to the Second Division. He had previously been coaching Arcachon, an amateur team, and helped them to be promoted from CFA 2 to CFA.[citation needed]

In 2006–07, he guided Strasbourg back to Ligue 1 with a third-placed finish but came under pressure shortly after the end of the season when internal conflicts at the club surfaced in the press. Several players, including '05 league cup final hero Jean-Christophe Devaux, also openly criticized Papin's methods.[citation needed]

Initially confirmed as manager for the 2007–08 season, he was forced to resign a week later after it was revealed that he had interviewed for the vacant managerial job at Lens only hours after his confirmation at Strasbourg. He was replaced by Jean-Marc Furlan, former manager of Troyes, while Lens selected Guy Roux as their new manager. Ironically, Papin eventually became the manager of Lens after the club lost at Strasbourg,[20] as Roux resigned only five games into the 2007–08 season. In the midst of the season, Lens and Papin were fighting to avoid relegation to the Second Division. Lens was also eliminated in the first round of both the UEFA cup and the Coupe de France by, respectively, FC Copenhagen (1–1; 1–2) and Second Division side Chamois Niortais (0–1, at home).[citation needed]

On 29 December 2009, Châteauroux hired the coach[21] to replace Dominique Bijotat. He left his position in May 2010 and was replaced by Didier Tholot.[22]

For the 2014–15 season, Papin once again took the managerial position at FC Bassin d'Archachon in Championnat de France Amateur 2.[23][24]

On 2 June 2020, Papin was announced as the new manager of Championnat National 2 side C'Chartres.[25]

He left his position in October 2022 to go back to Marseille as a technical advisor.

Outside football

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Papin (left) with sport fisherman Guillaume Fourrier in 2009

Papin was also iconic in French pop culture because of his caricature in the satirical TV puppet show Les Guignols de l'Info. At first, Papin was depicted as a rather dumb football player (a common stereotype in France), his only obsession being the many different ways to score goals. When Papin experienced difficulties in Italy, the coverage became more sympathetic, especially with the infamous Reviens JPP![26] song where even God Himself would urge Papin to come back to his home country, because "France needs you!".[citation needed]

After his daughter, Emily, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant, Papin started running the Neuf de cœur (Nine of Hearts) foundation, which provides support to families affected by the neurological disorder.[3]

Since 2011, he has participated in the Amélie evenings, organized by Amélie Mauresmo for the benefit of the Institut Curie on the theme play with the artists which happens at each opening of the Open GDF Suez at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris.

Since 2013, he has been with Youri Djorkaeff, Sylvain Wiltord and Valdo Filho, one of the ambassadors of Footgolf.[27]

Career statistics

Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
INF Vichy 1981–82 Division 3 17300173
1982–83 Division 3 301040
1983–84 Division 3 2910002910
Total 4913105013
Valenciennes 1984–85[28][29] Division 2 331522003517
Club Brugge 1985–86[28][29] Belgian First Division 3321874[c]54533
Marseille 1986–87[28][29] Division 1 331371424416
1987–88[28][29] Division 1 371910008[d]44623
1988–89[28][29] Division 1 35221011004633
1989–90[28][29] Division 1 363042008[e]64838
1990–91[28][29] Division 1 362357009[e]65036
1991–92[28][29] Division 1 372744004[e]74538
Total 2141343125422923278184
AC Milan 1992–93[28][29] Serie A 2213447[f]31[g]03420
1993–94[28][29] Serie A 185206[f]43[h]22911
Total 401864137426331
Bayern Munich 1994–95[28][29] Bundesliga 71103[f]21[i]0123
1995–96[28][29] Bundesliga 202206[c]1283
Total 273309310406
Bordeaux 1996–97[28][29] Division 1 321620403816
1997–98[28][29] Division 1 23623552[c]03214
Total 55224395207030
Guingamp 1998–99[28][29] Division 2 1030000103
JS Saint-Pierroise 1999–00 Division d'Honneur 124124
2000–01 Division d'Honneur 159159
Total 27132713
US Lège-Cap-Ferret 2001–02 CFA 2 24800248
2002–03 CFA 2 17720197
2003–04 CFA 2 169221811
Total 5724426126
Career total 5452665943137573852679356
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  1. Appearances in UEFA Cup
  2. Appearances in European Cup
  3. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  4. Appearance in Supercoppa Italiana
  5. Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Super Cup, one appearance and one goal in Intercontinental Cup
  6. Appearance in DFL-Supercup

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[30]
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 198682
198730
198861
198953
199054
199157
1992107
199373
199443
199510
Total5430
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Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Papin goal.
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List of international goals scored by Jean-Pierre Papin[30]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
11 June 1986Estadio León, León, Mexico Canada1–01–01986 FIFA World Cup
228 June 1986Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla, Mexico Belgium2–14–2 (a.e.t.)1986 FIFA World Cup
328 September 1988Parc des Princes, Paris, France Norway1–01–01990 FIFA World Cup qualification
416 August 1989Malmö Stadion, Malmö, Sweden Sweden2–14–2Friendly
53–2
65 September 1989Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Norway1–01–11990 FIFA World Cup qualification
728 February 1990Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier, France West Germany1–12–1Friendly
85 September 1990Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland Iceland1–02–1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
913 October 1990Parc des Princes, Paris, France Czechoslovakia1–02–1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
102–0
1120 February 1991Parc des Princes, Paris, France Spain2–13–1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1230 March 1991Parc des Princes, Paris, France Albania3–05–0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
124–0
1414 August 1991Stadion Miejski, Poznań, Poland Poland2–15–1Friendly
154 September 1991Tehelné Pole Stadium, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia1–12–1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
162–1
1712 October 1991Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville, Spain Spain2–02–1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1825 March 1992Parc des Princes, Paris, France Belgium1–13–3Friendly
193–3
205 June 1992Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens, France Netherlands1–01–1Friendly
2110 June 1992Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden Sweden1–11–1UEFA Euro 1992
2217 June 1992Malmö Stadion, Malmö, Sweden Denmark1–11–2UEFA Euro 1992
2314 October 1992Parc des Princes, Paris, France Austria1–02–01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
2414 November 1992Parc des Princes, Paris, France Finland1–02–11994 FIFA World Cup qualification
2527 March 1993Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria Austria1–01–01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
2628 July 1993Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France Russia3–13–1Friendly
278 September 1993Ratina Stadion, Tampere, Estland Finland2–02–01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
2822 March 1994Stade de Gerland, Lyon, France Chile1–03–1Friendly
2929 May 1994National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan Japan2–04–11994 Kirin Cup
3013 December 1994Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon, Turkey Azerbaijan1–02–0UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying
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Honours

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INF Vichy

Club Brugge

Marseille[31]

AC Milan[31]

Bayern Munich[31]

Bordeaux

France U21[31]

France[31]

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