Guy Roux

Forty-plus years at a single club is almost unthinkable now, and that is exactly why Guy Roux fascinates me. The man from Colmar did not just manage Auxerre; he raised it from obscurity to national and global recognition through sheer patience and loyalty. In an era of managers fired after a few bad weeks, his career reads like a quiet rebuke to short-term thinking. His two Legion of Honour distinctions feel earned not by a trophy haul alone but by stewardship. That he also wrote non-fiction suggests a man who understood his work was a story worth telling.

Name (English)

Guy Roux

Name (Japanese)

ギー・ルー

Reading

ぎー・るー

Born

October 18, 1938 (age 87)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Origin

Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France

Occupation

association football player / non-fiction writer / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2008 Officer of the Legion of Honour

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Roux
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435771

Tags

• Haut-Rhin
• association football player
• non-fiction writer
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.