Amélie Coquet

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Amélie Coquet (born December 31, 1984 in Hazebrouck ) is a French soccer player .

Club career

Amélie Coquet played as a girl and teenager in three small amateur clubs around Saint-Omer in the far north of France. As a 16-year-old, she moved to FCF Hénin-Beaumont in 2001 , an all-women football club from the eastern neighborhood of Lens , whose first team played in the second division . The offensive and dangerous midfielder was not only integrated into the women's league at an early stage, but was soon appointed to the French U-19 selection and in 2003 to the senior national team (see below) . In 2003 she rose with Hénin-Beaumont in Division 1 Féminine , in which the northern French women finished seventh in the final ranking in the following two seasons. Coquet, who had been in the starting lineup in all 22 league games, was the second-best goalscorer in her team behind Amandine Henry in the 2004/05 season .

In the summer of 2005, the Juvisy FCF , who had just won the national cup competition (Challenge de France) , brought them to the capital region . Although Juvisy's wives were brilliantly cast on the offensive - especially Marinette Pichon , Laëtitia Tonazzi and Virginie Bourdille-Mendes with a total of 62 goals, but also Sandrine Soubeyrand , Peggy Provost or Élise Bussaglia  - Amélie Coquet also prevailed there and stood in 19 league games of the black and white at the kickoff on the lawn. At the end of this 2005/06 season , the 21-year-old was French champion, even if she only contributed two goals this time. In the following year a sporting low followed; Amélie Coquet only appeared in a third of the games, and in Europe she was eliminated with Juvisy in the first group stage. Subsequently, however, their performance stabilized again. In the six years that followed, up to 2013, there were only three runners-up in Division 1 , and the JFCF never reached the final of the national cup either. But the north of France, together with Soubeyrand, Bussaglia (until 2012) and Gaëtane Thiney, undisputedly formed the midfield axis of the women's team, was missing in only eight of the 132 league games, contributed a double-digit number of hits in 2007/08 and 2010/11 and came with both of them quite successful European Cup appearances in 2010/11 (quarter finals) and 2012/13 (semifinals) in 17 games.

In the summer of 2016, she ended her playing career, in which she made 251 national league games with 61 goals; she wanted to concentrate on her job as an employee in the security and fire protection administration of the Pas-de-Calais department . At the beginning of 2017, however, her "resignation from resignation" took place, and Amélie Coquet joined the Arras FCF , at that time table runner-up in the northern division of Division 2. She is still active for Arras in the 2019/20 season.

Stations

  • US Coyecques (1992-1998)
  • US Thérouanne (1998/99)
  • CA Éperlecques (1999-2001)
  • FCF Hénin-Beaumont (2001-2005)
  • Juvisy FCF (2005-2016)
  • Arras FCF (since January 2017)

In the national team

Amélie Coquet did not go through the “typical path” from the U-15 in the youth field, but instead joined the U-19 national team as a 17-year-old player at a comparatively “small” club. But then her international career began all the more steeply: In 2002 she was on the French squad for the World Cup in Canada , where the French had to return home after the preliminary round. The following year, she also took part in the A-Youth European Championship . In this final round in East Germany , she was missing in the opening group match against Norway, but was then four times in the starting line-up of the French, where their coach Bruno Bini had used them in the first two matches on the left wing. In France's 2-0 win in the final, again against the Norwegians, the only player who had never belonged to the French "talent factory" in Clairefontaine scored the Bleuettes ' 1-0 lead early on when they quickly fought off a Norwegian goalkeeper Skarbø Ball accepted and transformed, and made a significant contribution to winning the title. She herself then emphasized the harmony in the team and coaching staff that would have made this first French success possible at an official continental tournament for women.

Less than five weeks after this final, Élisabeth Loisel , the coach of the French women's national team , called Amélie Coquet to two preparatory games for the World Cup finals, which began in the second half of September 2003, and replaced her in both games against Iceland and Japan in the last minutes of the game. At the same time, Loisel Coquet - as one of only two U-19 European champions - also nominated for France's final World Cup squad , and the midfielder was also used in this tournament in the USA when she played for Élodie Woock in the 1-1 draw against Brazil came and initiated the equalizer by Marinette Pichon in stoppage time from their own half .

As a result, she played regularly for the Bleues , before a year and a half break in this group occurred at the end of 2004; only at the Algarve Cup in March 2006 she was there again. Loisel's successor Bruno Bini, Coquet's trainer when he won the U-19 title in 2003, hardly built on her, so that despite her consistently high performance in the club, there were only three missions in 2008 and 2010, the last in May 2010 against the Confederates . She also played in June 2009 with the French B women - called Equipe de France A ' in France - against Tunisia .

Amélie Coquet made a total of 17 full internationals between 2003 and 2010. She also scored three goals: in 2004 in a 3: 3 in Italy , in 2006 in a 2: 2 against Denmark and in 2008 in a 6: 0 against Morocco .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 2006 (and runner-up in 2008, 2010, 2012)
  • UEFA Women's Champions League: 2013 semi-finalist
  • 17 international appearances, 3 goals for France, 2003 World Cup participant
  • U-19 European Champion 2003

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see Coquets data sheet at footofeminin.fr (under web links )
  2. ↑ Article “ Amélie Coquet returns to work at Arras ” from January 6, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
  3. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 218
  4. ↑ see the article "Que sont devenues les Championnes d'Europe U19 de 2003?" At footofeminin.fr
  5. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 219
  6. ↑ The other was Anne-Laure Casseleux .
  7. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 235
  8. ↑ see the match report at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Coquet, Amélie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Hazebrouck