Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes

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Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (born May 13, 1952 in Casablanca ) is a former French football goalkeeper .

Player career

In the club

The 1.92 m long goalkeeper , who was born in Morocco , which was still in France at the time , and grew up in Pauillac in southwestern France, played for FC Nantes throughout his career . At the age of 17, "JPBD" (also known as "the big one", French: le Grand ) signed a professional contract there and made his first division debut on November 4, 1969 ; it happened because before the game against Olympique Marseille all the other goalkeepers of the Canaris- The players of FC Nantes are still referred to as "canaries" because of their yellow dress - they were injured. Nantes won 2-1, the newcomer did well against Marseilles Sturmasse Magnusson and Loubet and was used two more times this season. However, it did not become the undisputed number 1 until 1972 and remained that way until 1987.

During the 18 years at Nantes, Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes had a number of successes. In Division 1 he won four national championship titles and was also runner-up six times. He won the national cup once (after a 4-1 final win over AJ Auxerre ) and was personally in the final of this competition twice (1973 against Olympique Lyon 1: 2, 1983 against Paris Saint-Germain FC 2: 3). In 1973 he also became a national player. In addition, he came to a total of 39 appearances in European club competitions. The high point was reaching the semi-finals in the 1979/80 European Cup Winners' Cup , where the later cup winner Valencia CF ended further title dreams after 2: 1 and 0: 4, while the low point was the elimination in the national championship competition in 1973/74 , when Nantes was already in the first Round 0: 1 and 2: 2 at the Danish amateur club Vejle BK failed.

"The big one" was largely spared from major injuries, so that he was only absent longer in the 1980/81 season (still a total of 20 point games). When he put the goalkeeper gloves aside after a last appearance at the beginning of the 1987/88 season, he had set a record of 532 games in Division 1 for one and the same club, which to date (2008) has only been exceeded by one player in France: Goalkeeper colleague Jean-Luc Ettori even made 602 appearances for another club by 1994. With that JPBD is logically also the record player of his Canaris .

After a very brief interlude in the marketing department of FC Nantes, Bertrand-Demanes turned to a non-footballing activity and has since led an asset and property management company in the Nantes area .

In the national team

Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes played 11 senior internationals for the Équipe tricolore between November 1973 and June 1978 . Under national coach Ștefan Kovács he stayed despite five appearances within twelve months - his last game for the time being was the European Championship qualifier against the GDR team (2-2, late 1974) - but only number 2 behind Dominique Baratelli , under the Kovács successor Michel Hidalgo is only the third goalkeeper behind Baratelli and André Rey .

Only after Bertrand-Demanes played an excellent 1977/78 season and Rey broke his wrist in the spring of 1978 did JPBD play for the Bleus again . Hidalgo not only considered him for the French World Cup squad , but also put him in goal at the tournament in Argentina from the start. In the first round match against Italy France lost 2-1, but the goalkeeper received the coach's trust in the second encounter against the World Cup hosts . After less than an hour, “the big one” hit the goal post with his back in a defensive parade, was briefly unconscious and had to be replaced by Baratelli. The following second 1: 2 defeat meant not only the premature end of the World Cup tournament for France, this game was also his last game for the national team for Bertrand-Demanes. In the insignificant third group game, Michel Hidalgo put Dominique Dropsy in goal, who from then on became the new regular goalkeeper.

Palmarès

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 285-287.
  2. ^ Cadiou, p. 166
  3. ↑ Chaumier, p. 41; France Football, July 14, 2009, p. 22
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 332-335.
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 140/141
  6. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 237; according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J., only 531 games

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personal data
SURNAME Bertrand-Demanes, Jean-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca