Eric Pécout

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Éric Pécout (born February 17, 1956 in Blois ) is a former French football player who won a total of five national titles as champions and cup winners. He remained in club football in various functions even after his active time .

Club career

Éric Pécout came to the youth center of FC Nantes as a 14-year-old, newly crowned winner of the Concours du jeune footballeur , where his older cousin Philippe Gondet had been successful as a striker for years . Three years later, coach José Arribas put left-footed Pécout, who also acted as a center forward, in his first division for the first time . In 1977, at the end of his third season, he won his first championship title with the Canaris - as the players of FC Nantes are often referred to because of their yellow dress in France - and he developed more and more into a goalscorer under the new coach Jean Vincent . In the 1978/79 season he was even the second most successful league goal scorer with 22 goals , and until the mid-1980s he was repeatedly among the top 20 on this list. He was considered "too nice for a striker, too serviceable to the team and too technically adept".

In 1979 he made a decisive contribution to Nantes winning the national cup for the first time in its history . In the final against AJ Auxerre , he brought his team 1-0 lead and added two more goals in extra time to 2-1 and 4-1. He was the first of two players to date (2009) to score three goals in a final for the Coupe de France. His career rose sharply until 1981: alongside players such as Henri Michel , Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes , Patrice Rio , Maxime Bossis , Oscar Muller and Loïc Amisse , Pécout was runner-up in 1978, 1979 and 1981, and again champion in 1980 1979 also to the national team (see below) . In the 1979/80 European Cup Winners' Cup , his seven goals contributed significantly to the Canaris reaching the semi-finals: he scored three times each against Cliftonville FC and Steaua Bucharest , and one more time against FK Dynamo Moscow . It was only against FC Valencia that he failed to score. He opened the following season in Division 1 with a double strike at 3-2 in Nîmes  - but after the third match day the doctors diagnosed a malignant calf disease that sentenced him to a five-month break. But he was back in the league team when FCN lost 1-0 to Auxerre at the Stade Marcel-Saupin in April 1981 ; this was Nantes' first home defeat after 92 league games, almost three years, and a league record to this day. Shortly thereafter, the club's presidium announced the very expensive commitment of Vahid Halilhodžić for the coming season early on ; in the summer, Éric Pécout left Nantes and joined AS Monaco .

His soaring flight continued seamlessly with the Monegasque : in 1982 he won his third championship title there. The following season, however, the ASM "only" finished sixth in the table. Pécout used this as an opportunity to change clubs again: in 1983/84 he played for FC Metz , and again he won a title there after the Lorraine team won 2-0 in the final of the Coupe de France - he himself was against AS Monaco failed to score because coach Kasperczak had pulled him back into midfield . In the championship, however, only a mediocre result jumped out for Metz, and therefore the attacker wore the outfit of Racing Strasbourg from 1984 . Although he found his way back to old dangerousness there at the side of Walter Kelsch - he scored twelve goals in 1984/85, like the German, the Alsatians found themselves in this and the following season only in the table cellar. 1986 Racing under his new coach Robert Herbin actually had to relegate to the second division , and Éric Pécout accepted an offer from the ambitious league competitor SM Caen . In 1988 he led the Normans to promotion, but did not return to the “footballing upper house” himself, but switched to FC Tours , which had promised him a position in club management. In the season he even played two third division games for Tours; he got his last three competitive game goals, and he was again part of the squad of a team that made promotion to a higher league.

Stations

  • Football Club de Nantes (1970–1981, from 1974/75 as a professional)
  • Association Sportive de Monaco (1981–1983)
  • Football Club de Metz (1983/84)
  • Racing Club de Strasbourg (1984–1986)
  • Stade Malherbe Caen (1986–1988, in D2)
  • Football Club de Tours (1988/89, in D3)

In the national team

Although he was a total of 30 times in the squad, Éric Pécout was only used in five meetings between February 1979 (debut against Luxembourg ) and May 1980 in the French national team. He managed a hit against Czechoslovakia . To his personal regret, he was neither in 1978 nor in 1982 in the Bleus World Cup squad . For national coach Michel Hidalgo , who had not yet seriously considered Pécout in 1978, Bernard Lacombe was set as a center forward.

Life after player time

Until 1993 he worked in the management of FC Tours, where he was also the sports director at times. He then worked in an event agency as head of sports marketing. For several years now, his employer has been called Paris Saint-Germain FC , where he is currently one of the main players in recruiting new players.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1977, 1980 (each with Nantes), 1982 (with Monaco)
  • French cup winner: 1979 (with Nantes), 1984 (with Metz)
  • 5 international matches (1 goal) for France
  • 277 games and 112 goals in Division 1 , including 156/73 for Nantes, 38/17 for Monaco, 29/8 for Metz, 54/14 for Strasbourg
  • 16 appearances in Europe and 7 goals, 13/7 for Nantes and 3/0 for Monaco

literature

  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004, ISBN 2-03-505420-6 .
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 .
  • Pierre Minier: 1943-2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 151; a list of the winners of this traditional competition for youth footballers can be found here .
  2. ^ Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8 , p. 286
  3. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 175-192.
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 150; similar to Chaumier, p. 235
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 430; the second to succeed ten years later was Jean-Pierre Papin .
  6. ↑ Minier, p. 402
  7. ↑ Minier, pp. 128-131.
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 400
  9. ↑ Chaumier, p. 235
  10. ↑ Michel Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2007 ISBN 978-2-84724-146-4 , pp. 84-86.
  11. ↑ Chaumier, p. 235; France Football, July 14, 2009, p. 23
  12. ↑ after Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  13. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 282 and 287

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personal data
SURNAME Pécout, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Blois