Jean Petit died at the age of 74 this Tuesday. A man of only one club, AS Monaco, he spent his entire playing career on the Rock, where he then made his career change. The story goes that the young Toulouse native fell in admiration for AS Monaco at the age of 13, when AS Monaco beat the TFC (5-0).
From that moment on, Petit had only lived to practice his profession as a professional footballer within the Monaco club.
His wish was granted in 1969, shortly before his 20th birthday, and certainly lasted well beyond the hopes of the kid from Toulouse.
AS Monaco was extremely saddened to learn of the death of Jean Petit, a legend among the legends of the Club, who passed away today at the age of 74.
To his family and loved ones, as well as to all AS Monaco lovers today plunged into grief, all… pic.twitter.com/9CWMMGS49j
— AS Monaco ???????? (@AS_Monaco) January 23, 2024
In total, the former international midfielder, twice French champion in 1978 and 1982, elected player of the year by France Football in 1978, will have spent almost half a century serving the Principality team.
That same year, 1978, Jean Petit was selected with the French team to play in the World Cup in Argentina, a sort of first draft of the 1982 and 1986 editions. Petit had a total of 12 selections for the team, for one goal scored.
Teammate and friend, Rolland Courbis, was quick to pay tribute to his friend on X (ex-Twitter): “I am devastated to learn of the death of Jeannot Petit,” wrote Courbis. I have huge memories with him! How much we laughed! More than 40 years of faithful friendship. AS Monaco has often shone thanks to him, many of us mourn him. »
I am devastated to learn of the death of Jeannot Petit.
I have huge memories with him! How much we laughed! More than 40 years of faithful friendship. L @AS_Monaco often shined thanks to him, many of us mourn him.— Rolland Courbis (@rollcourbis) January 23, 2024
Once he hung up his boots, he exercised almost all the functions relating to professional football within the club: recruiter for the training center, for the pro team, member of the technical staff, video analyst, assistant, interim head coach and advisor to the president.
On July 2, Christian Dalger, Petit’s teammate in Monaco, also on the trip to Argentina, died of a long illness at the age of 73.
Recently, Henri Stambouli, AS Monaco goalkeeper between 1977 and 1986, then assistant coach (2007), died on November 17, at the age of 62.
