Michel Boucheron (30 March 1903 – 31 May 1940) was a French rugby union former player who also served as the head coach of the Italian national team.
[1] After his playing career, he left work at the Michelin factory in Turin and it leads to the rugby team of the city, the CUS Torino, up 1938, and whose captain is Vincenzo Bertolotto, Italian international.
Coaches are French school in Italy at that time: Julien Saby in 1934 became technical adviser to the Italian national team.
When, in 1936, Saby happening in the Amatori Milano, already able to attract the best Italians players, the Federation is almost forced to choose Michel Boucheron as coach given the work done in Turin.
His name appears on a monument in memory of the fallen in the two World Wars and in the Stade Marcel-Michelin members of ASM Clermont Auvergne.