Olivier Rouyer

{{Short description|France international football player (b. 1955)}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Olivier Rouyer

| image = Olivier Rouyer - juillet 2014.JPG

| caption = Rouyer in 2014

| fullname =

| height =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|12|1}}

| birth_place = Nancy, France

| death_date =

| position = Winger

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1973–1981

| years2 = 1974–1975

| years3 = 1981–1984

| years4 = 1984–1986

| years5 = 1986–1988

| years6 = 1988–1990

| clubs1 = Nancy

| clubs2 = → ECAC Chaumont (loan)

| clubs3 = Strasbourg

| clubs4 = Lyon

| clubs5 = FCO Neudorf

| clubs6 = FC Strasbourg K 06

| caps1 = 210

| goals1 = 73

| caps2 = 29

| goals2 = 3

| caps3 = 77

| goals3 = 11

| caps4 = 45

| goals4 = 10

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| nationalyears1 = 1976–1981

| nationalteam1 = France

| nationalcaps1 = 17

| nationalgoals1 = 2

| manageryears1 = 1991–1994

| manageryears2 = 1999

| managerclubs1 = Nancy

| managerclubs2 = FC Sion

}}

Olivier Rouyer (born 1 December 1955) is a retired football striker from France. He earned seventeen international caps (two goals) for the France national team during the late 1970s and early 1980s. A player of AS Nancy, he was a member of the France national football team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. He coached Nancy from 1991 to 1994.

Personal life

Rouyer is gay, coming out after retiring as a player and coach.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article870292.ece|title=Is it time to open the closet?|access-date=12 August 2009|date=28 April 2003|first=Tony|last=Cascarino|author-link=Tony Cascarino|newspaper=The Times | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tetu.com/actualites/people/Olivier-Rouyer-commentateur-sportif-et-ex-footballeur-fait-son-coming-out-12595|title=Olivier Rouyer, commentateur sportif et ex-footballeur, fait son coming-out|access-date=12 August 2009|date=19 February 2008|publisher=Têtu|language=fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601161053/http://www.tetu.com/actualites/people/Olivier-Rouyer-commentateur-sportif-et-ex-footballeur-fait-son-coming-out-12595|archive-date=1 June 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/other-sports/discrimination-of-any-kind-in-sport-must-be-stamped-out.16792366|title=Discrimination of any kind in sport must be stamped out|access-date=2012-04-15|date=18 February 2012|first=Doug |last=Gillon|work=The Herald| location=Glasgow}}