Maxime Bossis

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Maxime Bossis
1978 FIFA World Cup - Italy v France - Maxime Bossis.jpg
Personnel
birthday June 25, 1955
place of birth Saint-André-Treize-VoiesFrance
size 186 cm
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973–1985 FC Nantes 379 (20)
1985-1989 RC Paris 120 0(3)
1990-1991 FC Nantes 34 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1976-1986 France 76 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Maxime Bossis (born June 25, 1955 in Saint-André-Treize-Voies in the Vendée department ) is a former French football player .

Club career

The angular central defender Maxime Bossis played from 1973 to 1985 for FC Nantes , with whom he was national champion three times (1977, 1980 and 1983) and also won the Coupe de France in 1979 . Here he also became a French international .

In 1985, the player , who had won several awards as the best footballer in the country , moved to Racing Paris in Division 2 , but with this he returned to the top division after only one year and stayed there until 1989. In the 1990/91 season, Maxime Bossis was 35th -Year-old once again his football boots for FC Nantes, played 34 point games and scored two more goals before finally ending his career after more than 500 first division appearances.

The national player

Between March 1976 and June 1986 Maxime Bossis played 76 international matches for France (64 for Nantes, 12 for Paris) and scored one goal. Under coach Michel Hidalgo , he was a regular in the French back team and first took part in an international tournament at the Football World Cup in Argentina in 1978 . At the Soccer World Cup in Spain in 1982 he made it to the semi-finals and had the saddest moment of his football career in the game against Germany : he failed on penalties against the German goalkeeper Toni Schumacher . When Horst Hrubesch was the next penalty taker, his team was eliminated from the tournament. At the European Football Championship in 1984 he finally managed to win a title with France. He also took part in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico ; there, however, his team was eliminated again in the semifinals against Germany .

From 1985 to 1992 Bossis was France's record international player before Manuel Amoros overtook him.

successes

Life after player time

Bossis was sports director at AS Saint-Étienne for a few months and was able to market his image as an advertising medium for the French post office. Consulting activities for the telecommunications companies Canal + and Orange followed in the 21st century .

Remarks

  1. France Football of July 14, 2009, p. 22