Ralph Jean-Louis

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Ralph Jean-Louis
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-09-11) 11 September 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Au Cap, Seychelles
Position(s) Midfielder, striker
Team information
Current team
 Seychelles (caretaker manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
?–? Bel Air ? (?)
?–? Anse-aux-Pins ? (?)
?–2004 St Michel United ? (?)
International career
1990–2000 Seychelles 1+ (?)
Managerial career
2009–2011 St Michel United
2010–2011 Seychelles
2013–2015 St Michel United
2015–2016 Seychelles
2020–2021 Seychelles
2023– Seychelles (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ralph Jean-Louis (born 11 September 1968) is a Seychellois football manager and former player. [1] He manages the Seychelles men's national team. [2] He also used to manage St Michel United, a team in the Seychelles First Division. [3] As a player, he played eleven years for the Seychelles national team as a midfielder and striker. [3] [4] At club level, he played for Bel Air FC, Anse-aux-Pins FC and St Michel United. [4] He won two bronze medals as a player at the Indian Ocean Island Games [5] as well as a gold as a manager. [6]

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Playing career

Club career

Jean-Louis played for three clubs in his playing career. [4] They were Bel Air FC, Anse-aux-Pins FC and St Michel United. [4] He started his career and Bel Air, in an era when Seychellois football teams were based in a particular region. [5] Bel Air FC represented the administrative district of Bel Air on the island of Mahé. [5] Jean-Louis then moved to Anse-aux-Pins FC (who represented the administrative district of Anse-aux-Pins). [5] Jean-Louis next moved to Seychelles First Division club St Michel United. [5] Why playing for St Michel United he won the 2001 Seychelles FA Cup and 2003 Seychelles First Division. [1] He stopped playing for St Michel United in 2004. [3]

International career

Jean-Louis played for the Seychelles national team for eleven years from 1990 to 2000. [5] He played in at least one full international, a 1–1 draw with Namibia on 8 April 2000 in qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. [7] In that match he was substituted off at half-time with Jude Ladouce replacing him. [8] Jean-Louis has won two medals in football at the Indian Ocean Island Games. [5] He won a bronze at Madagascar 1990 and a second bronze at Réunion 1998. [5] At the 1993 Indian Ocean Island Games, which was the first Indian Ocean Island Games held in Seychelles, Jean-Louis scored a goal in the third-place playoff but Seychelles eventually lost 6–2 to Mauritius. [5]

Managerial career

St Michel United

Jean-Louis has coached St Michel United in two different spells. [3] His first spell ended in early 2011, soon after he was appointed national team coach. He left after a CAF Champions League match against Young Buffaloes F.C. from Swaziland. [5] He won quite a few title with the club in his first spell. [5]

After being sacked from the national team, Jean-Louis re-joined St Michel United. [3] Then in 2015 he left again, due to being re-hired by the national team. [4] He thanked St Michel United for their understanding. [6]

Seychelles

Jean-Louis was first appointed the manager of the Seychelles national team in December 2010, [2] replacing Andrew Amers-Morrison as head coach. [5] After his appointment, Jean-Louis said that his objective with the team was, "Reaching the Indian Ocean Island Games final and making local fans proud with a win." [6]

At the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games held in Seychelles, Jean-Louis's team was drawn in group A with Mauritius, Comoros and the Maldives. [6] [9] The team's first game was on 4 August 2011 against Comoros with the game ending in a 0–0 draw. [9] Seychelles' second group game was against Mauritius and goals from Nelson Laurence and Archille Henriette secured Seychelles a 2–1 win. [10] In their final group game, the Jean-Louis led Seychelles beat the Maldives 5–1. [9] This meant the team progressed to the semi-finals as group winners on seven points, three points ahead of Mauritius and five points ahead of both Comoros and the Maldives. [9] In the semi-finals Jean-Louis's team faced Réunion. [9] Seychelles won in extra time 2–1 after a 118th-minute winner from Karl Hall. [11] In the final, Seychelles would face Mauritius, a team they beat 2–1 in the group stage. [9] The game finished 1–1 after extra time so the game went to penalties. [9] Seychelles won the shootout 4–3, and in doing so won the gold medal. [9] Jean-Louis left the team soon after the Indian Ocean Island Games victory. [4]

Jean-Louis was re-appointed manager of Seychelles in September 2015, [2] replacing Ulric Mathiot. [4] In an interview with Seychelles Life after his appointment, Jean-Louis said, "I took it up this time as a challenge for me to see if I can do better than last time." [4] He was one of four applicants for the job and the only local one. [4] His first match in his second spell as manager was against Burundi on 7 October 2015 in the first round of African qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [6] The team lost 1–0 before losing the second leg 2–0 and being knocked out of qualifying for the World Cup. [12]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Seychelles – R. Jean-Louis" . Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Football: Ralph Jean-Louis". Football Database. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 G., G. (31 December 2010). "SFF terminates Amers-Morrison's contract and appoints Jean-Louis as coach". Seychelles Weekly. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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  8. ↑ "2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan Preliminaries". FIFA. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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