Laurent Blanc

Laurent Blanc
Laurent Blanc as coach of the "Equipe Tricolore" at the European Football Championship 2012
Personnel
Surname	Laurent Robert Blanc
birthday	November 19, 1965
place of birth	Alès ,  France
size	192 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Avenir Sportif Rousson
	Olympique Alès
	HSC Montpellier
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1982-1984	HSC Montpellier B	16 0(4)
1983-1991	HSC Montpellier	251 (77)
1991-1992	SSC Naples	31 0(6)
1992-1993	Olympique Nîmes	29 0(1)
1993-1995	AS Saint-Etienne	70 (18)
1995-1996	AJ Auxerre	23 0(2)
1995-1996	AJ Auxerre B	2 0(0)
1996-1997	FC Barcelona	28 0(1)
1997-1999	Olympique Marseille	63 (13)
1999-2001	Inter Milan	67 0(6)
2001-2003	Manchester United	48 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1989-2000	France	97 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2007-2010	Girondins Bordeaux
2010–2012	France
2013-2016	Paris Saint-Germain
1 Only league games are given.

Laurent Robert Blanc (born November 19, 1965 in Alès ) is a former French football player and coach . From 2010 to 2012 he was the coach of the French national football team .

With his goal in the 113th minute in the round of 16 of the 1998 World Cup between France and Paraguay and thus the first ever achieved golden goal in World Cup history, Blanc went down in the history of the World Cup .

Because of his qualities as head of defense in the national team, he was referred to by his supporters as le Président .

Career as a player

society

From 1983 to 2003 he was active as a player in various clubs. His career began at HSC Montpellier where he was nicknamed "Le Président"; he then played at SSC Napoli , Olympique Nîmes , AS Saint-Étienne and AJ Auxerre . After a mixed season in 1996/97 at FC Barcelona , he moved back to France to Olympique Marseille . There he played from July 1997 to June 1999 before moving to Inter Milan in Italy. He played very successfully at Inter and was bought by the financially strong Manchester United in the summer of 2001.

National team

With the French national soccer team, Laurent Blanc won the 1998 soccer world championship in his own country and the 2000 European soccer championship in Belgium and the Netherlands. Overall, Blanc was used 97 times for the national team between 1989 and 2000 and scored 16 goals as a defender. The most important goal was the golden goal on June 28, 1998 against Paraguay . Blanc also played in the 1992 European Football Championship and the 1996 Euro .

Blanc was also known for kissing goalkeeper Fabien Barthez's bald head before the start of a game to conjure up the “luck of the football gods”.

Career as a coach

For the 2007/08 season, Blanc took over his first coaching position at Girondins Bordeaux . In his first season he was able to reach the runner-up championship and thus managed to qualify directly for the UEFA Champions League . In 2009 he succeeded in winning the championship title at Gironde after a duel with Olympique Marseille that was open until the last match day .

On July 1, 2010, Blanc has replaced Raymond Domenech as coach of the French senior team . After the poor performance and the scandals of the Bleus at the World Cup in South Africa , Blanc did not nominate a single one of the 23 World Cup "losers" for the first test match with the backing of the association's leadership . Instead, he appointed Karim Benzema , Samir Nasri and Philippe Mexès , who had been sorted out by his predecessor before the World Cup . In addition to these, seven other players have international experience, twelve others have not yet. Laurent Blanc started with two defeats, but then followed five wins in a row, including a 1-0 against Brazil and 2-1 away against England . The French selection lost the quarter-final match at the European Football Championship 2012 against world champions Spain on June 23, 2012 and was eliminated from the tournament. He then turned down the association's offer for a two-year contract extension.

After a year of waiting, Blanc succeeded Carlo Ancelotti for the 2013/14 season at Paris Saint-Germain . He signed a contract with the French champions for two seasons until June 30, 2015. After a contract extension, Blanc and Paris Saint-Germain separated in the summer of 2016; The club had this cost around 20 million euros, so that the trainer could afford to wait patiently for a new employer who would live up to his claims for success over a longer period of time.

successes

As a player

• 1987 - French champions in the 2nd division (Montpellier)
• 1988 - Champion d'Europe Espoirs (France)
• 1990 - French Cup Winner (Montpellier)
• 1990 - French Footballer of the Year
• 1992 - All-Star-Team of the European Championship 1992
• 1996 - French Cup Winner (Auxerre)
• 1996 - French Champion (Auxerre)
• 1996 - European Championship All-Star Team
• 1997 - Spanish Super Cup winner (FC Barcelona)
• 1998 - World Champion (France)
• 1999 - UEFA Cup finalist (Marseille)
• 2000 - European Champion (France)
• 2000 - European Championship All-Star Team
• 2003 - English Champion (Manchester United)

As a trainer

• French champion : 2009 (Girondins Bordeaux), 2014, 2015, 2016 (Paris Saint-Germain)
• French Cup Winner : 2015, 2016 (Paris Saint-Germain)
• French league cup winner : 2009 (Girondins Bordeaux), 2014, 2015, 2016 (Paris Saint-Germain)
• French Supercup winner : 2008, 2009 (Girondins Bordeaux), 2013, 2014, 2015 (Paris Saint-Germain)
• French Coach of the Year : 2009 (Girondins Bordeaux), 2015 (Paris Saint-Germain)

Awards

• Member of the Legion of Honor
• Member of the Association of Freemasons ( Lodge de Printemps No. 2 )

Web links

Commons : Laurent Blanc  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo by Laurent Blanc
• Laurent Blanc in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fff.fr/bleus/actu/533926.shtml
2. ↑ Blanc nominated Benzema and Nasri from August 5, 2010 on spox.com
3. ↑ Paris Saint-Germain chooses Laurent Blanc from June 25, 2013 on psg.fr (English)
4. ↑ France Football, January 9, 2018, p. 16
5. ↑ 1992 team of the tournament . In: Union of European Football Associations , October 17, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
6. ^ Wisdom Lodge List of Famous Freemasons . Wisdom Lodge # 202 Pasadena, CA. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.