Michel Preud'homme

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.

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

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Golden Glove Award

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0

Tags

• Province of Liege
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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