Brigitte Olive

Brigitte Olive (born March 4, 1971 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ), married Brigitte Henriques , is a former French football player . After the end of her playing days, she started a second career as a football official and coach .

Club career

Brigitte Olive grew up with five soccer-loving brothers; Since she was twelve, she also played soccer for a club herself, with JS Poissy . From when the young people were used in the first women's team of the club, which from 1987/88 was regularly among the four best teams in France, is not clear from the sources used. However, she became a national player in 1988 (see below) . In the 1989/90 season at the latest , she was part of Poissy's core formation; this season the women managed to advance to the championship final, and striker Brigitte Olive was used in the final. In this Poissy could not prevail against the series champion of the 1980s, the VGA Saint-Maur , however.

Two years later led the French football federation FFF finally a highest single-track women's league , the Championnat National 1 A , a. Although Poissy had qualified, Olive moved to the neighbors of the Juvisy FCF , which had just won the last national championship held in the finals tournament mode. A year later she was runner-up with Juvisy, and in 1994 she won her first title there. She was able to repeat this success in 1996 and 1997. Immediately after winning her third championship, she left her home region and wore the dress of league competitor ASJ Soyaux for two years , with which she only finished mid-table in both seasons. In mid-1999 Brigitte Olive ended her successful career as a player, in which her title in the European or French national cups was denied because both competitions were only introduced in 2001.

Stations

• Jeunesse Sportive Féminine Poissy (1983–1992)
• Juvisy Football Club Féminin (1992–1997)
• Association Sportive Jeunesse Soyaux (1997–1999)

In the national team

National coach Aimé Mignot called the 17-year-old Brigitte Olive in July 1988 for two A-internationals against Italy's B-Elf and the USA in the French A selection and considered them repeatedly in the episode. However, she only became an undisputed regular player from 1992, after her move to Juvisy FCF. In total, she has completed 31 international matches in the blue national dress, including not a single one against a woman from the German-speaking countries. She only scored two goals, but both of them were decisive. The first she succeeded in a friendship tournament in Varna against the USA (April 1990) and was the only goal of this game. The second in the European Championship qualifier against the Netherlands in April 1996 was their goal to 2-1 in the final minutes, which was synonymous with the final score and France's narrow victory. Still considered Mignot them for the European Championship finals not comprehensive in its only 16 players squad .

Their last encounter in this circle in October 1997 was a qualifier against Finland for the 1999 World Cup , shortly after their move to Soyaux. This was only the second game under Mignot's successor Élisabeth Loisel , who two weeks earlier had not played Brigitte Olive on her debut against the Swiss . Against Finland, the French did not get beyond a 2-2; after that, the attacker was no longer used by Loisel.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1994, 1996, 1997 (and vice-champion 1990, 1993)
• 31 senior internationals, 2 goals for France

Trainer and functionary

Brigitte Henriques (2018)

Brigitte Olive-Henriques gave birth to two daughters at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, she worked in the division of the FFF in the Val-d'Oise department in the promotion of girls' football and completed her coaching diploma . She then became assistant coach to Gérard Prêcheur , head of women's football at the national football performance center in Clairefontaine . In the summer of 2009, Paris Saint-Germain FC hired her as general manager of its women's department. Twelve months later, the capital club won its first ever women's title with the national cup .

When the Fédération Française de Football carried out an association reform in the summer of 2011, the new President Noël Le Graët brought her into his leadership team for the Executive Committee and made her General Secretary of the FFF. In 2014 Brigitte Henriques was one of only three women in the two highest association bodies. Since then, she has been in charge of the development of French girls' and women's football (féminisation de football) , which has grown from 50,000 to 71,000 female footballers of all ages within three years thanks to a large number of activities - in particular through extensive cooperation offers for all schools and small amateur clubs and passed the 100,000 mark in 2016. In March 2017, Brigitte Henriques was elected Vice President of the FFF for four years.

In the fall of 2011, Henriques also started a degree in Manager Général de club sportif professionnel at the University of Limoges and successfully completed it in 2013. She was the only woman in a course that Zinédine Zidane completed , among others . Since 2014, she has also acted on behalf of UEFA as a mentor for women who are interested in leadership positions in football.

Web links

• Brigitte Olive's player data sheet on the association's website
• Olives data sheet at footofeminin.fr

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see the biographical article "Brigitte Henriques, pour l'amour du football" from November 6, 2012 by Foot d'Elles
2. ↑ see the game data sheet for the game against the Americans on the association's website
3. ↑ see the game data sheet for the game against the Netherlands at footofeminin.fr
4. ↑ see the article "Brigitte Henriques, la féminisation en action" of December 12, 2013 by Foot d'Elles
5. ↑ see the article of June 3, 2009 from Le Parisien
6. ↑ The other two are Élodie Crocq and Peggy Provost in the Haute Autorité du Football - see the current composition of the HAF .
7. ↑ see the article "On ne peut pas dire qu'on a rattrapé notre retard" from May 6, 2014 at 20minutes.fr
8. ^ Election results from March 18, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
9. ↑ see the information about this course  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 2011 (PDF from the University of Limoges)  
10. ↑ see the article from April 28, 2014 at uefa.org