Gabriel De Michèle

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Gabriel De Michèle (born March 6, 1941 in Saint-Étienne ) is a former French football player .

Career

In the club

The spirited left defender , who grew up in Lorraine , came to second division FC Nantes in 1962 from an amateur club in Jarny , which was preparing to move up to Division 1 for the first time in the club's history , which “Gaby” and his comrades managed at the end of this season. From the beginning, De Michèle was part of the line-up of the new league, known as “canaries” (les canaris) because of his yellow jersey , and was instrumental in its rapid development from provincial to one of the two dominant clubs. Coach José Arribas formed a "team of the nameless", which included the young professional De Michèle, Robert Budzynski , Gilbert Le Chenadec , Philippe Gondet , Ramón Muller , Jacques Simon and Jean-Claude Suaudeau . During the following twelve years, which the defender played without exception in Nantes, other footballers, Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes , Roger Lemerre , Henri Michel and Patrice Rio , who often remained loyal to the Canaris for many years, were added. The obligation of expensive or foreign players like Didier Couécou or Erich Maas remained the exception. Arribas' maxim “speed, technique, game intelligence” also required defensive forces like De Michèle to play flexibly and constantly move.

At the end of the second season ( 1964/65 ), FC Nantes won its first championship title , which it was able to defend by a large margin in 1966. This year Gabriel De Michèle was also in his first cup final , in which Racing Strasbourg won 1-0. In the 1966/67 season, the defender became a national player and his team behind AS Saint-Étienne , the big rival of that decade, runners-up in the league. Another highlight in De Michèle's career followed in 1970 against the club from his hometown, albeit one with an extremely negative outcome: in the cup final, Nantes received a 5-0 defeat against Saint-Étienne. Three years later, however, he won his third championship and had the chance of his first doublé  - but again the opponents of FC were ahead in the cup final in the end (2-1 win for Olympique Lyon ).

In 1975 the now 34-year-old left the Canaris after almost 400 point games, but was still active as an amateur at two lower-class clubs from the region at the Loire estuary , in Saint-Nazaire and Nantes , until 1981 .

Stations

  • Jarny (until 1962)
  • Football Club de Nantes (1962-1975, 1962/63 in D2)
  • Football Club Saint-Nazaire (1975-1978)
  • Association Sportive de PTT Nantes (1978–1981)

International assignments

Gabriel De Michèle had already worn the blue national jersey as an adolescent (Espoirs) , then in the French amateur, military and B selection. In July 1966 and June 1967, respectively, he then played two A-internationals for France . His debut took place on a prominent stage: at the World Cup finals in England he was part of the Bleus' starting line- up against Mexico . In total, the left-back was in the national team 17 times, but it stayed with two missions.

With FC Nantes, he played in 17 matches in all three European cup competitions. There the Canaris fared similarly to the French Cup - they were eliminated after two rounds at the latest, and with a few exceptions ( 1966/67 Celtic Glasgow and 1971/72 Tottenham Hotspur ) not even against "big names". De Michèle was also involved in a particularly bitter lesson when Nantes lost 1-0 to the Danish Vejle BK in the 1973/74 national championship cup .

Palmarès

Life after the active time

Like many other former soccer players, De Michèle also worked as a representative for Adidas . He settled in Carquefou , on the outskirts of Nantes, and is now enjoying his retirement there.

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): FC Nantes Atlantique. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-915535-04-3

Remarks

  1. ^ Cadiou, p. 203
  2. ↑ The other was AS Saint-Étienne , which shared most of the national championships with Nantes.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe, pp. 5-7.
  4. ↑ Chaumier, p. 94
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , pp. 285 and 287
  6. ^ After Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault, n.d.; according to http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur20000000000000000000013189.html he only scored one goal in Division 1.
  7. ↑ Chaumier, p. 94

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personal data
SURNAME Michèle, Gabriel De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne