Gérard Bernardet

Gérard Bernardet (born March 7, 1957 in Mostaganem ) is a former French football player and later coach .

Player career

The 165 centimeter tall attacking midfielder Bernardet grew up in Lorient in Brittany in western France and began playing football in 1963 for the local club CEP Lorient . In 1973 he moved to major city rivals FC Lorient , where he made the leap into the second division squad during the 1973/74 season and then made his debut in France's second division. In 1975 the then 18-year-old had his breakthrough and he became an undisputed regular player. It was with AS Cannes a league competitor who signed him. In the south of France, Bernardet, who lives in midfield, presented himself as a goalscorer and achieved the best scoring of his entire career with twelve hits over the course of the 1977/78 season. His achievements aroused the interest of several top division clubs, which led to the fact that he moved to the US Valenciennes-Anzin in the top division in 1980 .

On July 24, 1980, at that time 23-year-old reached in an encounter against Olympique Lyon have Erstligadebüt and put then on a fixed set performers. Nevertheless, he did not stay Valenciennes permanently loyal, he from as ambitious applicable Erstligaaufsteiger 1981 Stade Brest has been committed . There he was such an integral part of the team that he never missed a game from 1981 to 1983. On a private level, he suffered a severe blow of fate during this time when his first wife died in July 1982. In the summer of 1983 he caused astonishment when, despite his regular place at Stade Brest, positioned in the first division midfield , he moved to FC Mulhouse , who played a class lower . There he became a key player, but failed with his teammates in 1985 in the relegation just about the aspired promotion. Personally, he still managed to return to the top division in the same year, as he went to Brest one more time. In 1986 he again gave up a secure regular place in the first division to move to the second division. With his new employer, HSC Montpellier , he was promoted to the top division in 1987. This was followed a year later by a third place in the table, which was mainly due to the stable defensive performance of the team. This allowed for participation in European competition and made it possible for Bernardet, who never played for the national team, to make his international debut in 1988. Although he was past thirty, he remained part of the first team until he moved to league rivals Olympique Marseille in April 1989 . Through his five appearances, which he played in the jersey of Marseille in the final stages of the season, he was part of the French championship team from 1989. In October of the same year he left the championship and went to the first-class starting SC Toulon . Because his former colleagues from Marseille won the league title again in 1990 and he had been called up to his move in three first division games, he was involved in it. Bernardet has thus become French champion twice.

At Toulon, he had a place in the starting eleven until he was given on November 25, 1990 to the second division Olympique Nîmes . With this he made the leap into the first division in 1991 and ran in the elite class until he was almost completely ousted from the first team in the 1992/93 season. In 1993 he had to accept relegation. At this time, the 36-year-old player decided to end his professional career after 287 first division games with 44 goals and 296 second division games with 62 goals.

Coaching career

In 1996, Bernardet took over the representative team of the cleaning company Groupe Nicollin as a trainer . Until 1999 he carried out a double role as a player-coach with this . From 1999 on he was a member of the coaching staff of HSC Montpellier and inherited the head coach Michel Mézy in November 2002 , as the club was threatened with relegation. Before this he was able to keep the club, but got into the relegation zone again in the following season and was dismissed in February 2004 for the same reason as his predecessor. From 2004 to 2006 he coached his former club AS Cannes, which had slipped into the third division.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gérard Bernardet ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , afterfoot.fr  
2. ↑ Gérard Bernardet - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
3. ↑ Gérard Bernardet complete profile ( Memento from February 18, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu