Henri Patrelle

Henri Patrelle (1918 - 1995) was player, leading then President of the club of Football Stade Saint-Germain then PSG. Mainstay of the club since 1942, President of 1958 with 1962, of 1964 with 1970 then of 1971 with 1974. He was also vice-president of the French federation of Football at the end of the years 1960

Insurer of its state, Henri Patrelle combined his functions with the club with other mandates with the League of Paris, the Commission of Football Amateur or the FF (vice-president). Man of compromise, paramount quality for an insurer, Patrelle “had put the finger in the gears” (dixit Patrelle) while agreeing to be responsible for the licenses to the club in 1942. Commissions with the League of Paris as delegations to the Federation, it quickly cut a statute of big shot of football French amateur. With Fernand Sastre, he was thus the large craftsman of the reform of French football in 1970 which broke the segregation between Amateurs and Pros. This combat which took accents of religious war lasted nearly one decade. Intendant of the team of France after the arrival of Daniel Hechter with PSG, it was in the middle of the famous business of the shirts of the France-Hungary match to the World cup 1978. The history cost its place of intendant Patrelle, but to avoid of too froisser this large servant of French football, one “professionnalisa”, rightly, this sector of the Club France. ----

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