Patrick Gonfalone

Patrick Gonfalone
Personnel
birthday	November 2, 1955
place of birth	Tunis ,  Tunisia
size	170 cm
position	Left winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1981	SCO Angers	164 (31)
1981-1983	AJ Auxerre	29 0(1)
1983-1985	Le Havre AC	25 0(4)
1985-1987	SC Abbeville	49 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1987-1990	SC Abbeville
1990-1992	ES Viry-Châtillon
1993 - ????	France B (Co-Tr.)
1993 - ????	France U-18 (Co-Tr.)
1997 - ????	France U-21 (Co-Tr.)
2009-2010	France U-16
2010-2011	France U-17
2011–2012	France U-16
2012-2013	France U-17
2014–	France U-19
1 Only league games are given.

Patrick Gonfalone (born November 2, 1955 in Tunis ) is a former French football player and later coach .

Player career

Gonfalone was trained at the western French club SCO Angers and moved up there in 1974 at the age of 18 in the first division team. The winger did not get beyond sporadic missions and suffered the first descent of his career in 1975. However, this did not lead to an increased role of the young player, who thanks to a single use was at least involved in winning the second division championship in 1976 and the associated promotion. Then the new coach Aimé Mignot put more on Gonfalone, but the 1976/77 season also brought direct relegation. In the second highest league he succeeded immediately after relegation the breakthrough; this happened on the position of the center forward, where the professional posted 17 goals, which makes the 1977/78 season his highest-scoring season. Following the rise in 1978, the attacker remained in the first team of his team, even if he moved back to the left wing due to the commitment of striker François Félix , which put an end to his time as a striker.

After another descent in 1981, it was with Guy Roux, the coach of the first division AJ Auxerre , who brought Gonfalone to his club. At Auxerre, however, he did not play such a role as before in Angers, which is why he turned his back on the club in 1983 after two years with irregular appearances. At this time he signed with the second division club Le Havre AC and initially became a regular in Le Havre. After he remained there in his second season, however, he left the club in 1985 with his move to league rivals SC Abbeville . For this he ran for two years in the relegation battle before he ended his career in 1987 at the age of 31 after 158 first division games with 15 goals and 109 second division games with 24 goals.

Coaching career

At the time of his retirement as a player, Gonfalone took over as coach at Abbeville. He was able to avert relegation twice before failing in 1990. In the same year he received the coaching position at the third division club ES Viry-Châtillon , to which he remained loyal until 1992. He then worked on the one hand as an administrative officer and on the other hand for the national association. From 1993 he was responsible for the latter as assistant coach of the B national team and the U-18 team; In 1997 he also became assistant coach of the U-21s. Gonfalone was transferred to the U-16 trainer's office in 2009, from where he moved to the U-17 in 2010 and, after returning to the U-16 in 2011, was again the U-17 trainer from 2012 onwards.

Web links

• Patrick Gonfalone on the official website of the French Football Association (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football: Patrick Gonfalone , footballdatabase.eu
2. ↑ Patrick Gonfalone  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , afterfoot.fr