Bernard Bosquier

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Bernard Bosquier (born June 19, 1942 in Thonon-les-Bains / Haute-Savoie ) is a former French football player .

The club career

A goal- scoring striker from his athletic training , Bosquier brought with him enormous shooting ability and an excellent header game; as a senior he was increasingly used in defense and was very versatile due to his good eye for the game situation. As an 18-year-old he was under contract with the second division Olympique Alès for one year before FC Sochaux secured his services in 1961 . With this club he was relegated from the top division at the end of the season , but returned to the upper house of football in 1964, where he made a lasting impression: at the end of this year he was appointed to the national team for the first time .

For the 1966/67 season, AS Saint-Étienne signed him , and here began a terrific series of successes in which Bernard Bosquier played a major role. In a team that with Robert Herbin , Aimé Jacquet , Rachid Mekhloufi , Hervé Revelli , a little later Salif Keïta and Jean-Michel Larqué had absolute top talent in their ranks and by two of the best French coaches of all time (initially Jean Snella , then Albert Batteux ), Bosquier won four championship and one runner-up title in five years , was twice cup winner and, incidentally, twice winner of the doublé . In these five seasons he was missing in only 11 league games, as a defensive man he had scored 22 goals for the Verts , as the ASSE is called in France, and he was also without exception in the first formation in the national cup finals and the European Champions ' Cup . So it is hardly surprising that France Football voted him France Footballer of the Year in 1967 and 1968 .

After the runner-up in the summer of 1971, Bosquier left Saint-Étienne and parted in a dispute because at a time when the ASSE still had a chance of the title, in a daily newspaper he and goalkeeper Carnus were said to be changing intentions. Bosquier denied this: he had rather made President Roger Rocher the proposal for a further six-year contract, which the latter rejected with the words that he did not want "no civil servant footballers". In an era in which players and officials had very little experience with the new temporary contracts in France - it was not until 1969/70 that the UNFP players' union succeeded in abolishing the compulsory tying of players to their first professional club up to their 35th birthday - The “club patriarch” may have thought this suggestion as presumptuous. Striker and goalkeeper were removed from the Verts squad on the spot , and Rocher also made sure that Bosquier had to abandon his training as an interior designer .

From the 1971/72 season onwards, Bosquier played for Olympique Marseille and won the championship (it was already his fifth), the cup and thus the doublé for the third time at the side of goal-scorer Josip Skoblar in his first season in Provence . At the beginning of 1974 his career came to an end: after more than 350 first division appearances, the veteran led the mostly young footballers of FC Martigues , the then lower class "branch" of OM, onto the field and then hung his highly decorated football boots on the proverbial Nail.

Player stations

  • Olympique Alès (1960/1961, in D2)
  • FC Sochaux (1961–1966, including 1962–1964 in D2)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1966–1971)
  • Olympique Marseille (1971–1974)
  • FC Martigues (1974)

The national player

Bernard Bosquier played a total of 42 international matches for the Équipe tricolore between December 1964 and April 1972 and also scored three goals, two of them against the reigning runner-up in 1967 and 1968. He was also the team captain of Bleus in nine matches . At the 1966 World Cup in England , which was disappointing for France , he was on the pitch in all three games.

Life after the active time

Towards the end of his playing career, Bernard Bosquier initially ran a children's clothing store and a jeans shop in Martigues ; In 1975, Marseille's first manicure salon was added. In 1981 he opened a school for young footballers in Carpentras , which quickly gained an excellent reputation and still exists today (as of May 2006). From the end of the 1980s he also worked in the management of his two ex-clubs Olympique Marseille and AS Saint-Étienne - at the latter responsible for the screening and training of the youngsters. He also became a professional advisor to the sports department at Radio Monte Carlo .

Palmarès

literature

  • Christophe Barge / Laurent Tranier: Vert passion. Les plus belles histoires de l'AS Saint-Étienne. Timée, Boulogne 2004 ISBN 2-915586-04-7
  • 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
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Remarks

  1. ↑ after Pécheral, pp. 203-205.
personal data
SURNAME Bosquier, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Thonon-les-Bains , Haute-Savoie department