Cécile Locatelli

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Cécile Locatelli (born November 12, 1970 in Grenoble ) is a former French soccer player who has worked as a coach since the end of her career .

Club career

Cécile Locatelli played in her youth near her hometown for the women's football club Claix FF . In 1989, at the age of 18, she moved from there to FC Grenoble , whose first team never made it past the preliminary round of the French championship during their three seasons there. This changed after Locatelli, which had made its debut whilst they remained at Grenoble in the national team (see below) , in 1992 - with the introduction of a nationwide first division , the Championnat National 1 A  - the FC Lyon joined.

In her first season , the defender won the French championship title with FCL and was runner-up the following year. Two more championships followed in 1995 and 1998. In the last two of the total of twelve years in which she had remained loyal to Lyon, there were two more second places in the final classification of the league, which has now been renamed Division 1 Féminine ;  in addition - also in 2003 and 2004 - in the 2001 newly introduced national cup competition, two more titles were added, when Cécile Locatelli, who has meanwhile been appointed captain, could receive the trophy.

After the end of the 2003/04 season, the women's football department of FC Lyon joined local rivals Olympique , and the now 33-year-old also followed suit. With OL Locatelli reached two more national cup finals, in which their wiveship failed against Juvisy FCF and HSC Montpellier on penalties, with the defensive boss having converted her own penalties. After the second final, she ended her very successful playing career in 2006.

Stations

  • Claix FF (1985-1989)
  • FC Grenoble (1989-1992)
  • FC Lyon (1992-2004)
  • Olympique Lyon (2004-2006)

In the national team

National coach Aimé Mignot used Cécile Locatelli for the first time in March 1992 in a friendly against Norway in France's A-Elf . She became a regular player there practically straight away and by February 1998 had a total of 44 senior internationals, in which she also scored two goals (against Finland in 1992 and against the USA in 1996 ).

Mignot also called her to the French squad for the 1997 European Championship finals . At this tournament she played all three preliminary round games in the starting lineup; due to the slightly worse goal difference against the Spaniards , however, it was not enough to advance. Under Mignot's successor Élisabeth Loisel , she played her last international match for the Bleues in early 1998 against England ; after that, the coach no longer relied on Cécile Locatelli.

She has played relatively few games against opponents from German-speaking countries - and all of them away from home - and only played two defeats against Germany (7-0 in 1992, 3-0 in 1993) and a 2-1 win in October 1997 the Switzerland blue dress.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1993, 1995, 1998 (and runner-up in 1994, 2003, 2004)
  • French Cup Winner: 2003, 2004 (and finalist 2002, 2005, 2006)
  • 44 senior internationals, 2 goals for France

Life after the time as a player

Cécile Locatelli completed her training as a coach, trained the second women's team of Olympique Lyon in Division 3 in 2007/08 and, together with Hervé Didier, trained the first division women at RC Saint-Étienne in 2008/09 . She then worked in the youth development team in her home region of Rhône-Alpes . Since 2014 she has been working at the national youth center of the national association FFF in Clairefontaine for the French U-16 / U-17 national team, initially as an assistant to Guy Ferrier and since 2015 as a trainer herself. In September 2016, the newly appointed head coach of the senior national team, Olivier Echouafni , brought her to his side as a short-term interim assistant. At the 2017 European Women's Championship , she was part of the coaching staff under Echouafni. Then she concentrated again exclusively on France's B-youth selection, which she prepared, among other things, for the qualification for the European Championship 2020 in Sweden .

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Cécile Locatelli ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 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. at skyrock.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ajc26.skyrock.com
  2. ↑ see the article from May 12, 2014 at footeo.com and the match report from July 10, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  3. ↑ Article “ The coaching team is completed ” from September 13, 2016 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ Article “ Second setback against Germany ” from May 10, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Locatelli, Cecile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenoble