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My Take
Michel Preud'homme is a name that earns instant respect from anyone who knows goalkeeping. Winning the first-ever Golden Glove at the 1994 World Cup is the kind of distinction that outlives a career, and I love that he didn't drift away from the game afterward. Moving into management and then into the sporting-director chair at Standard Liege shows real football intelligence, not just reflexes. There's something fitting about a goalkeeper, the position that reads the whole pitch, becoming the person who shapes a club. He reads to me as a true lifer in the sport, the kind of figure a club builds its identity around.
Overview
Michel Georges Jean Ghislain Preud'homme (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ʒɔʁʒ ʒɑ̃ ɡilɛ̃ pʁødɔm]; born 24 January 1959) is a Belgian retired footballer and manager who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he is vice-president and sports director at Standard Liège.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michel Preud'homme
- Name (Japanese)
- ミシェル・プロドーム
- Reading
- みしぇる・ぷろどーむ
- Born
- January 24, 1959 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Boar
- Origin
- Ougrée, Province of Liege, Belgium
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 183 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1994 Golden Glove Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · Association football coach — see all → · More people from Belgium →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.