Bernard Zénier

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Bernard Zénier (born August 21, 1957 in Giraumont ) is a former French football player . After finishing his playing career, he worked as a club official.

Club career

As a teenager, Bernard Zénier, who played for an amateur club from Florange in Lorraine , aroused the interest of neighboring FC Metz , which signed the left winger , who had just turned 17, in 1974. In his first season in the top division , he was only used in five point games, but scored four goals straight away. He even dropped out of school to play football after failing the final exam . In the following three years, Zénier became a regular player at Metz and finished with the team in the final ranking of Division 1each midfield. There was nothing better than a sixth place in 1975/76; however, he reached the Cup semi-finals with the Messins in the same season and also became a national player in 1977 (see below) .

In 1978 he moved to neighboring rivals AS Nancy , and only there he fully developed his qualities as a goalscorer; In the season 1978/79 he reached tenth place among all league top scorers with 15 goals, 1980/81 even the seventh (16 hits) and 1981/82 with 13 goals twelfth place. In 1979 Bernard Zénier suffered a broken leg, three years later a serious knee injury again led to a long break from playing. Even with Nancy, national titles were not to be won during his five years there; after all, he stood in all four ASN matches on the occasion of the European Cup Winners Cup against Frem Copenhagen and Servette Geneva in 1978/79 and also scored two goals there. For the 1983/84 season the Girondins Bordeaux brought him , and there he immediately won the championship title . However, he had only been able to contribute four goals and had been set up by coach Aimé Jacquet in only 25 games, plus in both games of the UEFA Cup , in which Lokomotive Leipzig, however, ended the Girondins' high-flying plans early. Zénier was then sold to the promoted Olympique Marseille , which was one of the finest French clubs, which at this time increasingly relied on the purchase of "ready-made players" than on the installation of their own young talent. But he didn't really feel at home on the Mediterranean coast, and when Olympique lost the national cup final to Bordeaux in 1986 , he wasn't even considered a substitute.

That is why he returned to Metz in 1986 and celebrated his first personal success just ten months later: his 18 goals made him the best top scorer of the season. A year later, thanks in part to his three goals, he made it to another cup final with FC , and he was on the pitch right from the start. In the decisive shoot-out against FC Sochaux , Zénier was the first to convert his penalty. In Metz 'first round in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988/89 , however , he was absent in both games against RSC Anderlecht ; another injury had made him deny only 21 season appearances in the French league. In 1991 he ended his active time in Division 1 after 466 games with 130 goals . He has remained loyal to the club, who is married to the daughter of Metz's ex-president Carlo Molinari , to the present (2012). Until 2009, Bernard Zénier was a member of the club's executive committee himself, and since then he has worked as a “talent scout” for the Messins .

Stations

  • until 1970: AS Florange (as a youth)
  • 1974–1978 FC Metz
  • 1978-1983 AS Nancy
  • 1983/84 Girondins Bordeaux
  • 1984–1986 Olympique Marseille
  • 1986–1991 FC Metz

In the national team

Bernard Zénier has played a total of 30 times for the various youth teams; In 1976 he finished fourth with the French A-youth at the UEFA youth tournament in Hungary . As an adult, however, he only made five full international matches for France , although he was only substituted on after a good 60 minutes of play in three matches. His debut at the Bleus took place in February 1977 on the occasion of a 1-0 victory against the Federal Republic , when coach Hidalgo considered the Metzer in search of a new attack line. On the left wing, however, he had very strong opponents in Loïc Amisse , Didier Six and Bruno Bellone . So it was five years before he was called again. Although he scored his only goal in the national dress against Northern Ireland at the beginning of 1982 , he was not included in the final line-up for the World Cup finals in the same year due to a knee injury (see above) , and just as little two years later for the European Championship in his own country . Then another almost five years passed before he stood for the last time for the Bleus in November 1987 in the 0-1 home defeat against the GDR in a qualifying game for the European Championship in 1988 .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1984
  • French cup winner: 1988
  • Division 1 top scorer : 1986/87
  • 5 international matches for France, 1 goal

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: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see Zénier's biography at afterfoot.com (under web links )
  2. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 202
  3. ↑ All information on the seasonal goalscorer lists from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 174-200
  4. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 319
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe , p. 329
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe , p. 235
  7. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 228
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France , p. 402
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France , pp. 57 and 404
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe , p. 273
  11. ↑ Figures 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. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 211
  13. ↑ a b see Zénier's data sheet ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the club side of FC Metz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcmetz.com
  14. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire , pp. 338-340
  15. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire , p. 345
personal data
SURNAME Zénier, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Giraumont