Jacques Petiteau

Jacques Petiteau
Personnel
birthday	September 23, 1955
place of birth	Vern-d'Anjou ,  France
size	180 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1963-1972	Vern-d'Anjou
1972-1974	SCO Angers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1988	SCO Angers B	180 (13)
1974-1975	SCO Angers	2 0(0)
1978-1979	SCO Angers	5 0(0)
1981-1985	SCO Angers	38 0(1)
1990-1991	SCO Angers B	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1988-2004	SCO Angers (U-16, U-17, U-18)
1 Only league games are given.

Jacques Petiteau (born September 23, 1955 in Vern-d'Anjou ) is a former French football player , later football coach and currently responsible for player recruitment for the SCO Angers club . In his playing days he was mainly used as a midfielder ; since 1972 he has been a member of the SCO Angers almost continuously. At the beginning of his adult career, he refused to sign a professional contract and remained so for the rest of his active career as an amateur player. Nevertheless, he came to isolated missions in the professional team of the SCO Angers.

Player career

From village club to French first division club

Born in Vern-d'Anjou , a small community in the Maine-et-Loire department , Petiteau began his active football career in 1963 with his home club. After he was active there for several years and went through various youth league classes, he made the leap into the youth department of the then French first division club SCO Angers in 1972 . There he was initially only used in the youth team, but soon made the leap into the B team with play in the third division, which was then divided into six groups, as well as in the professional team, which in recent years has mostly played quite high in the table. In addition to 14 games and two goals in the third-class group Center Ouest , Petiteau was also brought into the squad of the professional team trained by César Pancho Gonzales and used there in two league games (debut at a game against Olympique Lyon ). When he refused to sign a professional contract shortly thereafter, he was handed over to the club's B-team, for which he should henceforth be used.

There he acted indeed from the 1975/76 season could but due to its setting is not for the professional team for season 1974/75 in the Division 2 , qualify relegated. So it came for Petiteau and the SCO Angers B in the following years to a constant change of the third division internal groups. After 25 missions and one goal in the Ouest group in the 1975/76 season, another 26 championship missions and two hits in the 1976/77 season, when they were again active in the Center-Ouest group. Immediately thereafter, the team for the 1978/79 season was again given up in the Ouest group , where Petiteau celebrated his "most dangerous" year for himself and scored three goals in 26 championship games. After a repeated move to Center-Ouest , in which he scored a goal in his 23 appearances, he also made five league appearances with the SCO Angers, which has become the elevator team. After this 1974/75 relegation to the second division, he rose again to Division 1 for the 1975/76 season, then immediately relegated again, spent the 1977/78 season again in the second highest division and made it to the end of the season again Times in French excellence. Although he barely managed to stay in the league with the team this season, Petiteau was then used exclusively in the B-team.

1979/80 the team, which remained in the Center-Ouest that season and did not have to change to any other group, was successful throughout the season. Petiteau was in his midfield position throughout the season as a regular player and completed each of the 30 league games in which he scored two goals. By the end of the season, the team made it to second place in their group, a little behind the B-team of FC Nantes . However, third-placed AS Libourne was nominated as a climber to the next higher league . After another move to the Ouest , the midfield player's stakes decreased significantly, with only 17 championship appearances in which the goal was not achieved at all. Even within the league they suffered a small low when they only ranked tenth in the final ranking. As often in the past, another group change followed after the end of the season, with the Center-Ouest playing again for the 1981/82 season. There, however, it was no longer enough for relegation, which is why the team had to take the penultimate place on the way to fourth division. Petiteau was in 19 third division games in this season, scored two goals and was also active in eight games of the professional team playing in Division 2 at the time.

After sporadic assignments with the professionals, back to the amateurs

Although still in the squad of the B team, Petiteau was increasingly used in the professional team in the 1982/83 season . In addition to 21 championship appearances, he also scored his first and only professional league goal until the end of his career as an active player. In addition, he completed his only appearance in the French soccer cup that season , which was not very glorious for him and ended with a red card . But the team didn't make it past the thirty-second finals , which they lost 1-0 to EA Guingamp . In the 1983/84 season , Petiteau was in the professional squad, but was only used with the amateurs in the fourth division. In the 1984/85 season , the midfielder was used for the last time for the professional team and barely survived the relegation battle with the team, after having been mainly at the end of the table at the end of the season in recent years. Then followed until the end of his career as an active player at the end of the 1987/88 season exclusively in the B-team, which he led back to the third division at the end of the 1987/88 season after several years of absence. After he had already been successful as a youth coach for a few years, he came in the 1990/91 season in a single game of the B-team for his last championship appearance.

Coaching career and further career

In 1988, according to information even in 1989, Petiteau began his career as a soccer youth coach and was there almost two decades as a youth coach in his parent club SCO Angers in use. He mostly trained the age groups U-16, U-17 and U-18. In 2004 he ended his career as a youth coach and soon after went into the management of the club, where he is currently (as of the 2010/11 season) as a club official in charge of player recruitment at SCO Angers. Parallel to his work with young people, he is / was employed by a French bank.

successes

• 1 × runner-up in Division 3 - Center-Ouest group: 1979/80
• 1 × promotion to Division 3: 1987/88

Web links

• Jacques Petiteau on scoangers.iougs.com (French)

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ Usage data exclusively from the third division seasons 1974/75 to 1981/82
2. ↑ ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS ASSOCIATION ANGERS SCO (2010/11) (pdf file; French; 30 kB), accessed on January 4, 2010