Bernard Blanchet

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Bernard Blanchet (born December 1, 1943 in Saint-Mars-la-Jaille , Loire-Atlantique ) is a former French football player and coach .

Player career

In his clubs

As a teenager, Bernard Blanchet played for the amateur club Stade Croisic since 1956 and aroused the interest of some well-known clubs early on. At the turn of the year 1960/1961 he received a rejection from Racing Paris after a long training camp on the grounds that he was too small for a professional. Half a year later, however, those in charge of the second division club FC Nantes even waited in person at the port of Le Croisic until the sloop on which the enthusiastic fisherman was on vacation - at the time Blanchet was just finishing his training as a machine setter - was out and about again came in. From the summer of 1961, Nantes' coach José Arribas carefully built him and other youngsters such as Philippe Gondet into the league team around Jean-Claude Suaudeau , Gabriel De Michèle , Gilbert Le Chenadec and goalkeeper Daniel Éon , to which he then belonged for thirteen years. At the end of his second season, the Canaris - the players in France have been known as "canaries" since then because of their yellow jerseys - were promoted to the first division and strengthened themselves specifically with people who contributed to Arribas' individual understanding of the 4-2- 4-Systems fit, so the offensive Jacky Simon , the defensive Robert Budzynski and for the midfield Ramón Muller . The aim of this concept was an offensive, refreshing and sometimes spectacular style of play, in which the players were given space to develop their individual abilities, which the coach explained with the words "I don't want to weave my players into a tactical cocoon ". This was a requirement in which the "lively right winger " Blanchet found his way around well. He was difficult to calculate from his opponents because he could come over the wing and flank precisely inwards, but increasingly also developed a direct move to the goal, which he was able to complete successfully; In late 1962, the attacker, soon lovingly referred to by fans and teammates as the “little beluga ”, scored three goals in a game against Le Havre AC - one each with his left and right foot and one with a header. that made him increasingly indispensable for FC Nantes.

The promoted team finished the first season as eighth in the table and surprisingly won the championship title in the following (1965) . After the end of the season, the experienced journalist Jean-Philippe Rethacker wrote in France Football about Blanchet:

“As a preparer he is already very good ... but he needs another two years to develop his qualities as a goalscorer to the full. But after all, he's still almost a child. "

The Canaris were able to defend the championship title twelve months later and also reached the final in the national cup ; in it Nantes Racing lost to Strasbourg 0-1. In his further career, Bernard Blanchet failed to achieve great success in the cup competitions: he left the place as a loser in two other finals for the Coupe de France ( 1970 after a 0: 5 against AS Saint-Étienne and 1973 after 1 : 2 against Olympique Lyon ), and also in European competitions, FC Nantes always failed early. By 1974, Blanchet was in all 16 games of FC Nantes in all three European Cup variants ( European championship , cup winners and UEFA Cup ), in which he also scored three goals.

In the division 1 championship things went better for the team: in 1967 they became runner-up and in the five following years never finished the season worse than in 10th place; Blanchet himself became a national player during this period (see below) , and when the face of his club team changed at the end of the 1960s (including newcomers such as Henri Michel , Roger Lemerre , Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes , Erich Maas and Patrice Rio ), he developed into a particularly successful goalscorer. Three times in a row he was one of the ten most accurate players in the league : 1968/69 in 9th place (13 goals), 1969/70 in 7th place (17) and 1970/71 in 10th place (16). To the present day, the late bloomer Bernard Blanchet is the Canaris' most successful goalscorer with 111 goals. In 1973 he won his third French championship title and was runner-up a year later. But although he scored another eleven goals in the last season, "played almost the entire season with a wobbly knee " and had hoped for a contract extension, trainer Arribas did not fulfill his wish, but relied on the very young Loïc Amisse . Therefore, the 30-year-old left the club for which he had played 357 games in Division 1 . From 1974 he stormed for the second division Stade Laval , and when he had contributed to the promotion of this club to the first division in the summer of 1976, he ended his playing career.

In the national team

Between April 1966 (0: 3 against Belgium ) and June 1972 (0: 0 against Argentina ) Bernard Blanchet played 17 international matches in the French senior team ; in it he scored five goals. Through his performance in the second mission, a memorable 3: 3 against the USSR in early June 1966 in Moscow , in which he scored the first goal of the Bleus , he secured a place in the French squad for the World Cup finals in England . But during the preparatory course he twisted his knee with the result that national coach Henri Guérin had to replace him at short notice. His third game was therefore six months in coming.

Between the end of 1968 and the autumn of 1971, France's new coach, Georges Boulogne Blanchet, only used two international matches; then, however, the striker was regularly posted again and wore the blue dress in seven of the nine following games, including the " Mini-Copa " on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Brazilian independence. Then Georges Boulogne experimented until his end of office in mid-1973 on the right wing position with changing strikers ( Georges Lech , Louis Floch or Charly Loubet ), but Blanchet no longer considered. He has also played two matches against teams from German-speaking countries, namely in September 1968 in a 1-1 draw against Germany and in May 1970 against Switzerland ; at this 1: 2 in Basel , however, he was substituted on for Serge Chiesa two minutes before the final whistle .

Coaching career

Bernard Blanchet's coaching activity was exclusively in the amateur and youth field; He always worked for clubs near the Loire estuary, initially in the Vendée department in Les Sables-d'Olonne (1976/77) and Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie (1977 to 1981). Then he returned to Nantes and trained there the RAC Cheminots Nantes , then the C-youth of FC Nantes (1984/85) and from 1985 to 1987 the men of AC Saint-Nazaire . He then spent many years as a talent scout for "his Canaris" on the sports fields in the region.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1965, 1966, 1973 (and runner-up in 1967, 1974)
  • French cup winner: finalist 1966, 1970, 1973

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton . Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • 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
  • Pierre Minier: 1943–2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Minier, p. 39
  2. ↑ Minier, p. 40
  3. ↑ Minier, p. 46
  4. ↑ a b Cadiou, p. 167
  5. ↑ Minier, p. 41
  6. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 45
  7. ↑ Minier, p. 61
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 287
  9. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 168-170
  10. ↑ Minier, p. 92
  11. ↑ Numbers from 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.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , S 330/331
personal data
SURNAME Blanchet, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Mars-la-Jaille