Florence Rimbault

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Florence Rimbault (born December 1, 1963 in Angoulême ) is a French football player . During her 18 year career she only played for one club, ASJ Soyaux .

Club career

Florence Rimbault has been playing football for ASJ Soyaux in the neighborhood of her hometown since 1978 at the latest , and - as a 15-year-old - also in their first women's team. In the early days of women's football , it was not uncommon for talented youngsters to play for the national championship with their teams, and Rimbault also became a national player at this young age (see below) . In the summer of 1980 she was in a French championship final for the first time - there was no top women's league in France before 1992 - in which Soyaux lost 2-0 to the then series champions Stade Reims .

As a result, Soyaux developed into one of the strongest teams in the country during the 1980s, in which midfielder Florence Rimbault was one of the key figures alongside Bernadette Constantin , with whom she was also private friends, Sylvie Bailly and Cathérine Mercadier . In 1984 the women from the Charente department moved into the championship final again, and this time they won 1-0 against VGA Saint-Maur , so that Rimbault won their first title. The same endgame pairing was there again in 1986 and 1987 ; Since, however, the players from Saint-Maur clearly retained the upper hand, although Florence Rimbault had initially shot her wiveship in 1986 in the lead. In 1989 she played her fifth final in a decade, and this time Soyaux was close to winning the championship again. The midfielder was able to equalize the lead of the opponents of CS Saint-Brieuc twice during regular time, which is why it came to a game - winning penalty shoot-out - and in it, of all things, the experienced Bernadette Constantin missed her penalty, so that the women of ASJ Soyaux for the fourth time only left as runner-ups.

With this defeat, Soyaux's most successful period slowly came to an end. Nevertheless, the club was one of the twelve teams that were included in the newly created first French women's league (Championnat National 1 A) in 1992, and Florence Rimbault was still part of their regular formation. At the end of the 1995/96 season , the ASJ again finished second in the table, but with a clear gap behind champions Juvisy FCF ; Immediately thereafter, Rimbault ended her career at this level.

In the national team

Florence Rimbault has played a total of 22 full internationals for France and has also scored one goal. She made her debut in July 1979 when national coach Francis Coché substituted the 15-year-old in a friendly game against the Scottish women . In her second encounter in the blue national dress - a 4-0 win against Switzerland in March 1980 - she replaced the ailing Michèle Wolf after just 15 minutes and scored the only goal of her national team career four minutes later.

1982 and 1983 put Coché Rimbault in four of the six French European Championship games , and she remained under this coach until the beginning of 1987 a regular player. For his successor Aimé Mignot , the midfielder was no longer the first choice, and he only considered her again after a 20-month break. This mission, a European Championship qualifying match against Czechoslovakia in October 1988, was also their last international match.

Against opponents from the German-speaking countries, Florence Rimbault in the national jersey was only on the field against the Swiss - except in France's 4-0 win in 1980 again in 1983, when the two teams parted with a draw (1-1).

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1984 (and runner-up in 1980, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996)
  • 22 full internationals, one goal for France

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

  • Datasheet on the website of the French Football Association
  • Datasheet at footofeminin.fr

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 128/129
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 88
  3. ↑ see the data sheet of this game on the website of the French federation (the goal scorers of the match can be found there under "Détail des buts")
personal data
SURNAME Rimbault, Florence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Angoulême