Jean Varraud
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jean Philippe Varraud[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 10 May 1919 | ||
| Place of birth | Saint-Étienne[1] | ||
| Date of death | 24 June 2006 (aged 87) | ||
| Place of death | Cannes, France[1] | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1937–1939 | Saint-Étienne | 1+ | (0+) |
| 1943–1944 | Cannes | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jean Philippe Varraud (10 May 1919 – 24 June 2006) was a French professional footballer and scout.[3]
Varraud played as a footballer for Saint-Étienne,[4] and made two appearances during the 1937–38 season, with his debut coming in a 5–0 win against Toulouse during October 1937.[2][5] Afterwards, he would join AS Cannes, and played in the 1943–44 Championnat de France Amateur final, where they lost 2–1 to Bordeaux.[4] During World War II, he helped his former Saint-Étienne teammates Ignace Tax and Ferenc Odry by temporarily taking them in following their return from the war.[5][6]
During the 1950s, Varraud became a youth coach at Cannes, where he worked until 1980.[4] While working as a youth coach, he helped develop future French internationals Vincent Estève and Charly Loubet during the 1960s, and players like Guy Sporn, Michel Dussuyer, Bernard Casoni, Jean-Louis Garcia, Yves Bertucci, and Johan Micoud during the 1970s.[4]