Robin Leproux (born 22 July 1959) is a French

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. He was the president of French

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club

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from 2009 to 2011. Leproux was graduated from Reims Management School (Now

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) at 1983.

Career

Prior to his work in football, Leproux worked for the music recording label PolyGram before moving on to the French television service M6, where he was later named vice-chairman. While at M6, Leproux was the director of football club

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. In 2001, Leproux was installed as president of

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, the popular nationwide commercial radio network owned by the

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. In 2006, he was recruited to head the French site of

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and was tasked with creating an English version of the German magazine ''

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''. In September 2009, Leproux was named president of

club

. In his first year of presidency, the club won the Coupe de France. It was during Leproux's presidency that the "Plan Leproux" was instituted, banning 13,000 Paris Saint-Germain supporters in an effort to pacify the

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