Jean-Michel Larqué

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Jean-Michel Larqué (born September 8, 1947 in Bizanos / Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) is a former French football player , coach and currently renowned sports journalist .

The player

The club career

Larqué played as a youth at JAB Pau , was there - like his later teammate Jean-François Larios - coached by his father and 1964 French youth footballer of the year; In 1965, AS Saint-Étienne signed the 17-year-old half-striker , who developed into one of the most successful French footballers of all time over the next 12 years. He was an extraordinarily complete player, technically gifted, with a high understanding of the game and an eye for his fellow men, a good passer, dangerous goal and strong header. Two of the most well-known French trainers, first Jean Snella and then Albert Batteux , developed these skills with the young man, who also did not neglect his personal training and completed a degree as a sports teacher.

At the age of 22 he had already achieved more than most footballers at the end of their entire career: Larqué was with the Verts , as AS Saint-Étienne is called in France, as a regular in the league team , four-time French champions , cup winners and also had in the national team debuts. How often he served the ball to the ASSE goal scorers (especially H. Revelli and Keïta ) was not recorded in statistical detail at the time - but he was one of the top scorers in the league early on.

Under his teammate and subsequent coach Robert Herbin , Jean-Michel Larqué added three more championship titles to this record in the mid-1970s (again in direct succession), won the Coupe de France twice (as well as three doublés ) and was in the 1976 final of the European Champions Cup , where it did not quite reach the crown of European football against Bayern Munich .

In 1977 Larqué was looking for a new challenge and moved to Paris Saint-Germain , which offered him the opportunity to prepare for a later coaching career. In 1979 he ended his professional career.

Stations

  • Joan of Arc du Béarn Pau (until 1965)
  • Association Sportive Saint-Étienne (1965–1977)
  • Paris Saint-Germain (1977–1979)
  • Racing Club Paris (1981/82, as player-coach )

The national player

Between September 1969 and September 1976 Jean-Michel Larqué played 14 internationals for the Equipe Tricolore , scored two goals and was also team captain in three matches, but this at a time when the Bleus were not tearing up trees internationally. The fact that there were no more appearances was due to the fact that, in Henri Michel, the playmaker of the other French top team, FC Nantes , was often preferred to the national coach of those years.

The trainer

In 1977/78 Larqué began as a player and at the same time assistant coach at PSG to pass on his knowledge and skills to others. In 1981/82, when he was already serving full-time in a different role in football (see below), he worked again on both sides of the sidelines at the lower-class traditional club RC Paris . He later concentrated more on youth football and has been running an annual summer training camp in his home region of Aquitaine up to the present day .

The journalist

Since 1980, Jean-Michel Larqué has also been extremely successful as a sports journalist, where he benefits from his intimate knowledge of football as well as the fact that his intellectual horizon has never been limited to the green turf. He began as a reporter for the broadcaster Antenne 2 , commented from 1985 to 2005 together with the “voice of French football”, Thierry Roland , on games on the state television broadcaster TF1 and got his own program three times a week on Radio Monte Carlo (Larqué Foot) . He became editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine Onze Mondial and has been a commentator on TF1 since 2005, after Roland, who died in 2012, largely withdrew from live reporting, until his death (2008) alongside former Canal + reporter Thierry Gilardi . Since spring 2010 he has been designing a weekly comment page in France Football , titled Larqué - Reprises de volée . In the same year he published two books: his autobiography Vert de rage by Calmann-Lévy and Les secrets d'un fiasco by Éditions du Toucan, in which he deals with the fiasco of Knysna .

In addition, Larqué has been chairman of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques district in the Ligue d'Aquitaine de football , one of the regional subdivisions of the French football association, since 2004 . He gave up this function prematurely in October 2017 due to differing views with Saïd Ennjimi , former top referee and new president of the superordinate Ligue de Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

Palmarès

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ France Football of October 17, 2017, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Larqué, Jean-Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football player, coach and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bizanos , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department