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Biography

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, 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. 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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Olympique Lyonnais (popularly known as OL, or simply Lyon) is a French football club based in Lyon. ... Football in France is governed by the national body Fédération Française de Football (FFF). ... Jean-Pierre Papin (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France) was a French football player. ... Ligue 1 (Première Division or Division 1 until 2003) is the top division of French football, one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 2. ... Final results for the Football competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics: Results Categories: Olympic football competitions | 1996 Summer Olympics events | Football at the Olympics ...

He made his debut for the French 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. He was a part of the Paris SG team which won both the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue trophies. He played a single season at Paris SG, scoring seven league goals, before he moved on to Olympique de Marseille in the summer 1998. Aimé Jacquet 5 june 2005. ... Posterior view of the foot and leg, showing the Achilles tendon (tendo calcaneus). ... Paris Saint-Germain FC, or PSG, is a French football club based in Paris. ... The Coupe de France, the French Cup is a football cup competition open to both professional and amateur clubs in France. ... The Coupe de la Ligue, the French League Cup is an elimination cup competition. ... Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. ...

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 French 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. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... Parma A.C. (Associazione Calcio) is an Italian football club based in Parma, nicknamed the Gialloblu. ... Roger Lemerre (born June 18, 1941 in Bricquebec, Manche) is a French football manager and former football player. ...

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 Chateauroux, where he played until he retired in September 2005. Real Club Celta de Vigo is a Spanish football team from Vigo in Galicia. ... SC Bastia is a French football team, playing in the town of Bastia, Corsica. ... In most sports leagues around the world (with the North American professional leagues as the most important exception), relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the worst team(s) of a higher division into a lower division at the end of the season. ... FC Istres is a French football team, playing in the town of Istres. ... In the sports leagues — especially soccer leagues — of many countries, relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the worst team(s) (often the bottom three) of a higher league into a lower league at the end of the season. ... Ligue 2 is the second division of French football. ...

Clubs

• 1991-1997: Olympique Lyonnais
• 1997-1998: Paris Saint-Germain
• 1998-2001: Olympique de Marseille
• 2001-2002: Celta Vigo
• 2002-2004: SC Bastia
• 2004-2005: FC Istres
• 2005: LB Châteauroux

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Honours

• Coupe de France: 1998
• Coupe de la Ligue: 1998

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External links

• (French) FFF profile
• (French) L'Equipe profile