Claude Quittet

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Claude Quittet (born March 12, 1941 in Mathay ) is a former French football player .

Club career

The 180 centimeter tall defender Quittet started playing football in his home village of Mathay before joining AS Valentigney a little later at the age of 14 . Despite his young age, he was part of a team that competed in the Division d'Honneur , the third highest division at the time ; he could quickly fight for a regular place. Thanks to his achievements, he was included in the Franche-Comté regional selection. In this way he became talented scouts for the professional club FC Sochauxdiscovered and accepted into his youth department at the age of 16. In the 1958/59 season he made his debut in the first division for the first team, but from then on he was only used sporadically because he had to do his 28 months of military service; then he signed his first professional contract. During the season 1961/62 he rose within the team to a regular player, but at the end of the season Sochaux rose to the second division. In 1963 and 1964 he won the Coupe Charles Drago cup competition with his teammates and in 1964 managed to return to the top division. The central defender, who in his youth at Sochaux mainly focused on technique and a corresponding style of play, also developed a certain scoring risk in the second division by scoring five goals in each of the two years.

In the years after 1964 he remained loyal to Sochaux and was a top performer in a team that was increasingly establishing itself in the league. They made it to the national cup final in 1967 and Quittet led the team as captain in a game in the course of which they missed winning the trophy due to a 3-1 defeat against Olympique Lyon . A year later, the team drew attention to itself again when it took third place in the table. The defender had made his contribution by conceding no more than 39 goals from the defensive he had designed. In 1969 he turned his back on the club and signed with the second division club OGC Nice .

At Nice he was set as before in Sochaux and made promotion to the top division with the team in 1970 as second division champions. In 1971, Jean Snella, a coach was brought in who led the team among the best in France. Quittet was a regular of the team that finished second in the table in 1973 and thus qualified for the European competition. However, he did without his possible premiere in the European Cup, since he moved to local rivals AS Monaco in the summer of 1973 .

With AS Monaco, which is allowed to compete in the French league system despite being part of the Principality of Monaco, he also played in the first division and was one of the leading players of a team that was only just able to avert relegation the following year. At the same time, he made it to the French Cup final in 1974 and Quittet was also the captain's armband in his second final. Like seven years earlier with Sochaux, he missed a possible title win as Monaco were defeated by AS Saint-Étienne 2-1. Shortly thereafter, after only a year with this club, he announced his departure and signed with the second division RCFC Besançon .

In Besançon he was initially given a regular place in a team that found itself in the midfield of the second division. With eight goals in the 1974/75 season he managed a remarkable yield for a defender, which was also the best of his career. In the following season, however, he was hardly considered. He then ended his professional career in 1976 at the age of 35 after 338 first division games with 25 goals and 124 second division games with 26 goals. From then on he ran for the amateur club US Châteaufarine Besançon before finally giving up football in 1981.

National team

Quittet was 26 years old when he was on the pitch in a 5-1 defeat by West Germany on September 27, 1967, making his debut in the jersey of the French national team . His competitive debut followed a month later in a 1-1 draw against Belgium in qualifying for the European Championship in 1968 ; The French missed out on both this tournament and the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship . Quittet was regularly taken into account by the national coach before he had to take a three-year break after a 1-0 draw against Norway in November 1968 and only returned to a 2-1 win against Bulgaria on November 10, 1971.

From 1971 he was regularly appointed to the Equipe tricolore and wore the captain's armband for the first time on October 13, 1972 in a 1-0 win over the Soviet Union in his thirteenth international match. This honor was bestowed on him four times, the last time on May 26, 1973, when the team faced the Soviet Union again. This overall 16th international match was also the last for the then 32-year-old. Despite his six-year career in the national jersey, he had never participated in a tournament for France and was also unable to score a goal for his country.

Life after the active time

While he was still playing for Monaco, he was persuaded in 1974 by the former tennis player Robert Haillet as one of several prominent soccer players to become an advertising representative for the Adidas brand . He served the company for a period of 24 years.

He had spent the last years of his career in Besançon in his home region in eastern France. There he settled permanently and also took over the presidency of the association of former players of FC Sochaux. He started playing golf at the age of 58 .

Individual evidence

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  2. Une génération oubliée? , wearefootball.org
  3. Claude Quittet - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  4. Claude Quittet , national-football-teams.com
  5. Joueur - Claude QUITTET , fff.fr