Dominique Bathenay

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Dominique Bathenay
Dominique Bathenay en 1976.jpg
Bathenay 1976 as a player
Personnel
birthday February 13, 1954
place of birth Pont-d'AinFrance
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1971 Grange-les-Valence, Tournon
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1978 AS Saint-Etienne
1978-1985 Paris Saint-Germain
1985-1987 FC Sète
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975-1982 France 20 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
FC Sète
1988-1989 Stade de Reims
1989-1990 US Monastir
SC Choisy-le-Roi
Seychelles
1996 AS Saint-Etienne
2000-2001 Olympique Nîmes
CS Sedan
2005 United Arab Emirates
2008-2009 United Arab Emirates
1 Only league games are given.

Dominique Bathenay (born February 13, 1954 in Pont-d'Ain / Département Ain ) is a former French football player and current coach .

The soccerplayer

Club career

The defensive midfielder (later also used as a stopper ) came to AS Saint-Étienne as a 17-year-old, the club where the coaches (before Bathenay's transfer Jean Snella , then Albert Batteux and from 1972 Robert Herbin ) consistently brought in young talents built the league eleven and with this concept made the Verts the most successful French club to date. The left-footed Bathenay needed longer than, for example, Dominique Rocheteau , Gérard Janvion and Christian Lopez , who were almost the same age : the knot only burst during his military service in the legendary "football battalion" in Joinville , only there did he develop the attitude and maturity that fully developed his qualities Let it come into its own. He played his first league game in October 1973, and from this point on the valuable team player could no longer be displaced from the “first” of the ASSE. Two years later, after a European match , the then coach of the lifted him PSV Eindhoven , Kees Rijvers , himself a former Stéphanois , with the words "May I pick myself a player, I would Bathenay take" from the star-studded out.

In 1974, 1975 and 1976 Dominique Bathenay became French champion with Saint-Étienne , won the Coupe de France in 1974, 1975 and 1977 and thus also the Doublé in 1974 and 1975 . Two years after his debut in Division 1 , he also swapped the green club jersey for the blue national dress for the first time . In 1976 he was in the final of the European Cup national champion , in which Verts the Munich Bayern but with 0: had to admit defeat. 1

After five highly successful years, he moved to the capital club Paris Saint-Germain in 1978 , where he was able to add two more cup wins to his collection of titles in 1982 and 1983. In 1985 he joined the lower class FC Sète , where he was preparing for his new role off the sidelines in the second year as a player-coach.

In the national team

Between October 1975 and April 1982 Dominique Bathenay played 20 international games for the Equipe Tricolore (16 in his time with the Verts , 4 with PSG) and scored four goals. On his first assignment, he scored the French goal at 1: 2 in the Leipzig Central Stadium ( EM qualifier against the GDR ), but was only called up again 11 months later by the new national coach Michel Hidalgo . He was a World Cup participant in 1978 (2 appearances), but lost his regular place after moving to PSG.

The trainer

Bathenay trained successively at FC Sète, Stade de Reims (1988/89), US Monastir in Tunisia (1989/90), SC Choisy-le-Roi, was national coach of the Seychelles for two years and was an interim coach for four months at " his "AS Saint-Étienne, without being able to prevent their relegation.

From 1996 to 2000, the five-time French cup winner was president of the association commission for the Coupe de France . He then returned to the coaching bench, worked until December 2001 (released early) at Olympique Nîmes and then at CS Sedan , with whom he was relegated from the first division in 2003 and has since been replaced by his assistant coach. In the second half of 2005 Bathenay coached the national team and the Olympic team of the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile the Olympic team of Qatar . From 2008 to 2009 he was again the trainer of the UAE.

Palmarès as a player

  • French champion : 1974, 1975, 1976 (with Saint-Étienne)
  • French cup winner : 1974, 1975, 1977 (with Saint-Étienne), 1982, 1983 (with PSG)
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup : Finalist 1975/76
  • A total of 38 appearances (6 goals) in the European cup competitions (25/4 for ASSE, 13/2 for PSG)
  • 388 D1 appearances and 57 goals, of which 158/25 for ASSE, 230/32 for PSG
  • 20 international caps (4 goals)