AS Saint-Étienne announced Thursday evening "mourn the tragic and sudden disappearance" of its former player Jean-Luc Ribar (57).
This native of Roanne had joined the club from Stéphane at the age of 16.
Considered "among the most gifted footballers of his generation", the talented left-hander had discovered Division 1 at just 18 years old, in November 1983. Relegated at the end of that season with the Greens, the promising midfielder would then play in Division 2 until 1986, when he returned to the ASSE elite.
Jean-Luc Ribar played a total of 137 matches and scored 24 goals with the Saint-Etienne team, from 1983 to 1987. ASSE, which retains as a strong image of the former player "his sincere joy, dressed in the tunic of his heart club", by scoring in 1987 the goal of qualification for the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, during a Sainté-Lens disputed at Geoffroy-Guichard in front of more than 46,000 spectators.
Hip problems cut short his football career
Then passed by Lille and Quimper, he chained six seasons in Rennes (from 1989 to 1995), but hip problems forced him to end his professional career at 30 years old.
This former partner of Roger Milla had been running several cleaning companies near Roanne (Loire) for more than ten years.
AS Saint-Étienne and the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium announce in a press release that they will honor his memory this Friday, before the kick-off of ASSE-Troyes (9 p.m.), with a minute of applause.
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