Elie Rous was an English
[ ''Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français'' (Racing), Pages de Foot 1999] football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
manager, active primarily in France.
Rous led
Racing Paris
Racing Club de France Football, commonly known as Racing Club de France (), is a French Association football, football club based in the Paris suburb of Colombes.
The club was founded in 1882 as a multi-discipline sports club, and is one of ...
to the
1940 Coupe de France title, and was runner-up with
Sète
Sète (; , ), also historically spelled ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises'' (fem ...
in
1942
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.
He later coached
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million[Metz
Metz ( , , , then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle (river), Moselle and the Seille (Moselle), Seille rivers. Metz is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Moselle (department), Moselle Departments ...]
between 1951 and 1952.
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English football managers
FC Sète 34 managers
OGC Nice managers
FC Metz managers
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English expatriate sportspeople in France