Former Liverpool coach Jacques Crevoisier has passed away at the age of 72.
Crevoisier moved to Anfield in 2001 to form part of Gerard Houllier’s backroom staff as a replacement for Patrice Bergues, who joined RC Lens.
A year earlier he won the European under-18 Championships with a France squad that included future Reds players Djibril Cisse and Gregory Vignal.
The highly-respected coach spent two years within Houllier’s setup which coincided a second-place finish in the Premier League in his debut season.
Liverpool also won the League Cup, Charity Shield and Super Cup before Crevoisier left Merseyside in summer 2003 owing to family reasons.
Crevoisier remained actively involved in football, working in a series of roles with Sochaux in his homeland and helped Arsenal as a psychological analyst.
French media reported on Sunday that he died after suffering a heart attack.
Houllier’s former assistant and Anfield legend Phil Thompson worked alongside Crevoisier and paid a glowing tribute to his former colleague.
He said: “Jacques was a lovely guy.
“Gerard had known him for a very long time and he came in just after that time we won all the trophies with the treble.
“He was very good. He was very quiet; that was the way he did things and that was obviously the way he had come through the coaching set-up in France – and that’s why he got his chance at Liverpool.
“Jacques was a very good coach and a very good administrator as well, an absolutely terrific guy and it is so, so sad.
“My sympathies go to all of his family.”