Angélique Roujas | |
Birth Date: | 15 September 1974 |
Birth Place: | Château-du-Loir, France |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1989–1996 |
Years2: | 1996–2001 |
Clubs2: | La Roche ESOF |
Nationalyears1: | 1995–2001 |
Nationalteam1: | France |
Nationalcaps1: | 51 |
Nationalgoals1: | 14 |
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.
Roujas is from Château-du-Loir (now part of Montval-sur-Loir).[1] She was worked as a physical education teacher (EPS in French).
Roujas started playing regional football. After playing for a few months, she was signed by 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] 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] Roujas was joint top scorer at the tournament, alongside Italy's Carolina Morace and Norway's Marianne Pettersen.[7] 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]