Hervé Revelli

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Revelli 1968 as a player

Hervé Revelli (born May 5, 1946 in Verdun ) is a former French football player and coach .

The club career

The goal-threatening, technically strong and at the same time highly team-friendly center forward made his first appearances at the age of 18 at AS Saint-Étienne under their then coach Jean Snella and became a regular at les Verts from the 1966/67 season ("the Greens "is the common French name for this club). This season he won the first of a total of seven championship titles , was immediately top scorer in Division 1 with 31 goals and on top of that, as the icing on the cake, from Snella, who had also temporarily taken over the post of national coach after the disappointing World Cup in England , also appointed to the French national football team.

In the following four years, Hervé Revelli - now under the new club coach Albert Batteux - was three more times national and once runner-up, twice cup winner , French footballer of the year , won another top scorer and was twice second in this competition. He even had to assert himself against strong competitors from his own club such as Robert Herbin and above all Salif Keïta . He benefited from the fact that he was spared injuries, although he always acted in the front row.

In 1971 he moved to OGC Nice for two years , for which he also scored 41 league goals and was runner-up in 1973. A major reason for the change was that he met his sponsor, coach Snella, there again. But after his former teammate Robert Herbin became the new coach at Saint-Étienne , Revelli returned to the Stéphanois . At the side of old and new teammates (namely the young striker Dominique Rocheteau and his brother Patrick Revelli ) he immediately added three more championship titles (1974-1976) and three cup successes to his already impressive trophy collection, and continued to score a double-digit number season after season Goals and is to this day (January 2006) with 175 goals the most successful goalscorer of the AS Saint-Étienne and with 216 also the second best French-born goalscorer of all time in France's top division .

A highlight of Revelli's career was the final of the European Cup : on May 12, 1976 he stood with the Verts on the lawn of Glasgow's Hampden Park , where, for a change, he failed to hit the opposing goalkeeper , so that Hervé Revelli and the AS Saint-Étienne had to hand over the European crown to the German defending champions FC Bayern Munich . In 1977 he added the fifth French Cup win to his collection of titles and ended his active career a year later.

Stations

  • AS Saint-Étienne (1964 to 1971)
  • OGC Nice (1971 to 1973)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1973 to 1978)

The national player

Between September 1966 and March 1975 Revelli played a total of 30 games (15 each with Saint-Étienne and Nice) for the Équipe Tricolore and scored fifteen goals. However, France could not qualify for the finals of the World and European Championships in these years.

Life after the player career

In 1978 Revelli began training as a coach and then worked at LB Châteauroux (1980 to 1983) and in Draguignan . Further stations were clubs in Gabon and Mauritius , then again in France (at AS Saint-Priest) before he moved abroad again ( Tunisia ). This was followed by four years as a councilor for social issues in the Loire department , then a time as a technical advisor to the Qatar Football Association . Hervé Revelli is now back in France.

Palmarès

literature

  • Louis Naville: Di Nallo - Gondet - Loubet - Revelli. Carré d'as du football. Solar, Paris 1970
personal data
SURNAME Revelli, Hervé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Verdun