Alain Roche

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Alain Roche (born October 14, 1967 in Brive-la-Gaillarde ) is a former French football player , then worked as a club official.

Club career

The 1.82 m tall central defender joined the Girondins Bordeaux team as an 18-year-old during the “ Jacquet era ” , where he worked alongside national players such as Alain Giresse , Jean Tigana , Patrick Battiston , Léonard Specht , René Girard and Bernard Lacombe , goalkeeper Dominique Dropsy and the naturalized German Gernot Rohr quickly developed into regular players and earned his first successes. He showed a great playful maturity and stability early on, was considered highly talented, serious and responsible. He also ended his career with this club. The other club with which his name is primarily associated is Paris Saint-Germain , for which he was also active for six years. He was also under contract for one or two seasons at Olympique Marseille , AJ Auxerre and Valencia CF. With each of his clubs he has won at least one national title: a total of five times the French Cup , three times the championship of Division 1 and the League Cup in France and once each of the Spanish Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup . At the end of his time at Auxerre, a personal title was added when he was voted France's Footballer of the Year in 1992 . Even later, Roche did not tend to overestimate this impressive Palmarès : he was “proud of it, but also just always at the right club at the right time” .

With his five victories in the Coupe de France , Alain Roche is next to Marceau Somerlinck and Dominique Bathenay the most successful player in the 90-year history of this competition; In the 1993 final against FC Nantes , he headed the goal to make it 3-0. After winning the Cup in 1998, he was retired from Paris Saint-Germain and moved to Spain.

After the end of his playing days he returned to Paris SG. There he was involved with the recruitment of new players, temporarily (2007/08) also personal advisor to the President Alain Cayzac .

Stations

  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1985-1989)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1989/90)
  • Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise (1990–1992)
  • Paris Saint-Germain FC (1992-1998)
  • Valencia Club de Fútbol (1998-2000)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (2000-2002)

In the national team

Alain Roche has played 16 games for France's U-21s ("Espoirs") , with whom he became European Junior Champion in 1988 ; he was also used in the national military team. Between November 1988 and June 1996 Roche wore the blue jersey in 25 international matches , including one goal against Israel in 1993 . After his second game, there was a three-and-a-half-year break in which national coach Michel Platini no longer considered him. Only his successor Gérard Houllier brought Roche back after the European Championship in 1992 . For the next four years in central defense, he was part of the French squad at the 1996 European Championship . In England, however, he was only substituted twice in the preliminary round due to a back injury and was only in the starting line-up in the semi-finals, which he lost to the Czech Republic on penalties - national coach Aimé Jacquet preferred Laurent Blanc and Marcel Desailly at this tournament . This was Alain Roche's last game for the Équipe tricolore , even if he was still part of the A-squad and could calculate chances to be called up in the 1998 World Cup , which ultimately prevented meniscus problems.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1987 (with Bordeaux), 1990 (with Marseille), 1994 (with Paris)
  • French cup winner: 1986, 1987 (with Bordeaux), 1993, 1995, 1998 (with Paris)
  • French league cup winner: 1995, 1998 (with Paris), 2002 (with Bordeaux)
  • Spanish Cup Winner: 1999
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1996 (with Paris)
  • 25 full international matches (1 goal) for France, including 2/0 during his time at Bordeaux, 23/1 at Paris
  • 413 games and 25 goals in division 1 , including 159/9 for Bordeaux, 25/1 for Marseille, 76/7 for Auxerre, 153/8 for Paris
  • 31 games (no hit) in the Primera División
  • 77 games and 4 goals in the European Cup competitions (25/1 in the championship, 20/1 in the cup winners, 32/2 in the UEFA Cup); including over all three competitions 28/1 for Bordeaux, 2/0 for Marseille, 4/0 for Auxerre, 40/2 for Paris, 3/1 for Valencia
  • Junior European Champion: 1988
  • France's Footballer of the Year: 1992

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: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 258
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 152
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 410 and 429
  4. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 259
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 346-349.
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 350–354.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Figures for the French clubs according to L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 219, 235, 271 and 301

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personal data
SURNAME Roche, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Brive-la-Gaillarde