Isabelle Le Boulch

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Isabelle Le Boulch (born December 29, 1964 in Pluméliau ) is a former French football player , club official and trainer . In all functions, she was only active in the adult sector for a single club, Chaffoteaux Sports (later Stade) Saint-Brieuc .

Club career

From when and with which club Isabelle Le Boulch, who was born near Pontivy in the Morbihan department , started playing football cannot be found in the available sources; in her youth she had also practiced athletics and committed herself to the middle distance . From 1982, when 17-year-old, she played at least for the woman elf of Chaffoteaux Sports Saint-Brieuc in the north of Brittany , and for this club it remained until its fifth decade of life into active.

Saint-Brieuc's women have played regularly since the beginning of the 1980s for the state championship, which was still determined in a final tournament at the time, but reached the semifinals for the first time in the 1986/87 season . This succeeded again a year later, and in the 1988/89 season the CSSB not only made it to the final, but also secured the championship title. During the regular season, the strikers Le Boulch and Françoise Jézéquel, who joined the club before the start of the season, shot their colors twice in the lead, but Florence Rimbault of the final opponent ASJ Soyaux was able to equalize each time. Saint-Brieuc needed a penalty shootout to win the championship trophy. In the following two years the women did not survive the quarter-finals, but in 1991/92 - this was the last year in which the French championship was decided in a final - Le Boulch was again in the final. And again she managed one of the two goals of the CSSB, which was only cosmetic because the Juvisy FCF had already been 3-0 up.

When the French Football Association then set up a nationwide first division (Championnat National 1 A) comprising twelve women's teams, CS Saint-Brieuc was one of them and stayed with Isabelle Le Boulch for the club for the next ten years - from 1999 under the name Saint-Brieuc FF, from 2003 on as Stade Briochin - stormed, also consistently represented in it. The Bretons mostly finished in the upper half of the table and were mostly among the most goal-hungry teams in the league. The best place was a third place in 1996/97 behind Juvisy and the Toulouse OAC .

At the first staging of the women's cup competition in the 2001/02 season , it was Isabelle Le Boulch who scored both goals in the quarter-finals against FCF Monteux and thus ensured that the blue-yellows progressed. In the semi-finals, however, Saint-Brieuc had to bow 2: 3 to the women of FC Lyon .
Immediately thereafter, the now 37-year-old ended her career, but played in the reserve team until 2005 and was also the club president at times. From the 2008/09 season she worked as head coach of the first division women of Stade Saint-Brieuc, whose most successful goalscorer was the 19-year-old Eugénie Le Sommer . During this time, Isabelle Le Boulch occasionally played for the club's third team.

In the national team

Between May 1985 and April 1992, Isabelle Le Boulch played a total of 27 full international matches for France , scoring eight goals. After their debut, a 4-0 defeat against Sweden , it took three quarters of a year before national coach Francis Coché used them again in three games in the spring of 1987. Among them was an encounter against Switzerland , in which she scored her first goal in the blue national dress.

It was not until May 1988, under Coché's successor Aimé Mignot , that the Breton became a regular player - albeit with a twelve-month break during the 1989/90 season - and scored seven more goals. She even scored two goals in two games with the Bleues : in 1991 in a 3-1 win against Japan and in 1992 in a 6-1 win against Ivory Coast , which was also her last international match. In addition, she scored two goals in the national dress with a gap of only 24 hours when France first faced China in a tournament in Shumen, Bulgaria in April 1990 and the Soviet Union the next day .

She did not take part in one of the European Championship finals in those years (1987, 1989 or 1991) because the French women did not qualify for any of them. She only met opponents from German-speaking countries in three games: in addition to the 1987 game against Switzerland, she was also used in the two 2-0 defeats in 1987 and 1991 against Germany .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1989 (and vice champion 1992)
  • French Cup: semi-finalist 2002
  • 27 senior internationals, 8 goals for France

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 86
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 246
  3. ↑ see the cup results on this season's page at rsssf.com
  4. ↑ see the interview “With board resources” from June 17, 2009 at Le Télégramme
  5. ↑ see the individual list of their international matches at footofeminin.fr
  6. ↑ see the data sheet of this game at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Le Boulch, Isabelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Plumeliau