European Football Championship 1984 / France
This article covers the French national team at the 1984 European Football Championship .
qualification
As the organizer of the final tournament, the Équipe tricolore was automatically qualified and thus took part in a European Championship final for the second time since 1960 .
French contingent
| Number / name | former club | birthday | Sp. | goal | red | yellow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goalkeeper | |||||||
| 1 | Joël Bats | AJ Auxerre | 04/01/1957 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19th | Philippe Bergeroo | Toulouse FC | 01/13/1954 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20th | Albert Rust | FC Sochaux | 10/10/1953 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defense | |||||||
| 2 | Manuel Amoros | AS Monaco | 02/01/1962 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Patrick Battiston | Girondins Bordeaux | 03/12/1957 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4th | Maxime Bossis | FC Nantes | 06/26/1955 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Jean-François Domergue | Toulouse FC | 06/23/1957 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15th | Yvon Le Roux | AS Monaco | April 19, 1960 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| midfield | |||||||
| 8th | Daniel Bravo | AS Monaco | 02/09/1963 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6th | Luis Fernández | Paris Saint-Germain | 10/02/1959 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7th | Jean-Marc Ferreri | AJ Auxerre | December 26, 1962 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Bernard Genghini | AS Monaco | January 18, 1958 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Alain Giresse | Girondins Bordeaux | 08/02/1952 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 |
Michel Platini 
|
Juventus Turin | 06/21/1955 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 14th | Jean Tigana | Girondins Bordeaux | 06/23/1955 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18th | Thierry Tusseau | Girondins Bordeaux | 01/19/1958 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| attack | |||||||
| 11 | Bruno Bellone | AS Monaco | 03/14/1962 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17th | Bernard Lacombe | Girondins Bordeaux | 08/15/1952 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Dominique Rocheteau | Paris Saint-Germain | 01/14/1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Didier Six | FC Mulhouse | 08/21/1954 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Trainer | |||||||
| Michel Hidalgo | March 22, 1933 | ||||||
French team games
Preliminary round
France played in Group 1 with Belgium, Denmark and Yugoslavia. Coach Hidalgo intended to compete with two back four and two strikers (the so-called 4-4-2 system ), taking into account the core formation that has developed since the 1982 World Cup :
Battiston Bossis Le Roux Amoros
Fernández Tigana Platini Giresse
The midfield, also known as the “magic square” in France, was of central importance. However, the expulsion for Amoros in the opening game against Denmark made a change necessary early on: Domergue took his place as left defender for the rest of the tournament. In addition, Hidalgo experimented continuously with the strikers: Lacombe, Six, Bellone and Rocheteau formed three different starting formations in a total of five tournament encounters in alternating combinations.
| rank | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 France
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9: 2 | +7 | 6-0 |
| 2 |
 Denmark
|
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8: 3 | +5 | 4: 2 |
| 3 |
 Belgium |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4: 8 | −4 | 2: 4 |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2:10 | −8 | 0: 6 |
| June 12, 1984 in Paris (Prinzenparkstadion) | |||
| France | - | Denmark | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
| June 16, 1984 in Nantes (Stade de la Beaujoire) | |||
| France | - | Belgium | 5: 0 (3: 0) |
| June 19, 1984 in Saint-Étienne (Stade Geoffroy-Guichard) | |||
| France | - | Yugoslavia | 3: 2 (0: 1) |
Semifinals
| June 23, 1984 in Marseille ( Stade Vélodrome ) | |||
| France | - |
 Portugal |
3: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0) |
Endgame
| June 27, 1984 in Paris ( Prinzenparkstadion ) | |||
| France | - |
 Spain |
2: 0 (0: 0) |
Conclusion
This European championship brought France's national team the first ever international football title; until then you had to draw from third place at the 1958 World Cup for a long time . The success bore the signature of coach Hidalgo , who was able to build on a team of players in which there were enough equal complementary players available beyond the first eleven, as was particularly evident in Domergue or the "interplay" in the storm.
Even if Michel Platini was undoubtedly the outstanding player in this tournament and possibly the best footballer in the world in the mid-1980s - as a game designer and even more as a goalscorer, whose nine goals up to and including 2008 represent a lone record in European championships - his achievements would be without the almost perfect harmony with the other three midfield players was inconceivable. This “magical square” also formed the indispensable hinge between a secure defense (a total of four goals conceded, but insurmountable in three of the five games) and a dangerous attack.
literature
- Hardy Greens : European Football Championship encyclopedia. 1960-2008. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-241-6 .
- Michel Hidalgo (and Patrice Burchkalter): Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2007 ISBN 2-84724-146-9
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
Remarks
- ↑ see Greens, p. 160