Patrice Rio

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Patrice Rio (born August 15, 1948 in Le Petit-Quevilly , Seine-Maritime Department ) is a former French football player .

Club career

The central defender began his professional career in 1969 at first division club FC Rouen , for which his father, international striker Roger Rio , had also played. In the championship , Patrice Rio ended up only in 12th place at the end of the season, but he was on the pitch in all six games of the only European appearance of the “Red Devils” to date (2008). In the UEFA Cup -Vorgängerwettbewerb Fairs Cup turned Rouen initially Twente Enschede and RSC Charleroi from before the FCR in the third round with 0: 1 on: 0 and 0 Arsenal failed. When the financially troubled club returned its professional license at the end of the season, Rio moved from Normandy to Brittany .

With FC Nantes , for whom Patrice Rio laced his football boots from 1970, the physically but also technically strong player, who was also dangerous with his header in front of the opposing goal, achieved a number of successes during the following 14 years. In Division 1 he won four national championship titles with the Canaris - the players from Nantes are called "canaries" because of the color of their game dress - and was also four times runner-up. Once he won the national cup after a 4-1 final victory over AJ Auxerre , and was personally in the final of this competition for a second time in 1983 (3-2 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain FC ). In 1976 he also became a national player. In addition, he came to a total of 30 appearances in European club competitions, in which he also scored three goals. 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. From major injuries Rio was largely spared, so that he could complete less than half of the Canaris' competitive games in only two seasons (1972/73 and 1981/82).

At the age of 36, not yet ready for retirement, Patrice Rio played from 1984 for Stade Rennes, who had just been relegated to Division 2 . Although Stade had finished the 1984/85 season only in fourth place, he managed to get up immediately after successes in the Barrages over FC Rouen, FC Mulhouse and AS Saint-Étienne , and the defensive line had a good share in it. After two more first division years, at the end of which Rennes had to relegate to the second division again, the almost 39-year-old Rio, who had only made four league games in the last season, ended his long playing career in 1987 after 509 matches in the football upper house of France.

Stations

  • Football Club de Rouen 1899 (1969/70)
  • Football Club de Nantes (1970-1984)
  • Stade Rennais Football Club (1984–1987, including 1984/85 in D2)

National team

Between March 1976 and September 1978 Patrice Rio was appointed to 17 full international matches in the Equipe tricolore . During this time he had to compete in particular with Christian Lopez for the free place in central defense alongside Marius Trésor . Nevertheless, he was in the French World Cup squad in 1978 , and in Argentina coach Hidalgo gave him preference in the opening game against Italy ; after the 1: 2 defeat against the Azzurri, however, Lopez pushed Rio permanently out of the team, with the exception of the European Championship qualifier against Sweden immediately after the World Cup finals.

Palmarès

Life after the time as a footballer

After a brief episode as sports director at SCO Angers , Patrice Rio subsequently worked as a sales representative for a manufacturer of hydraulic tail lifts for trucks . In addition, his opinion as an expert on French league football is regularly asked for on the programs of the pay TV channel Canal + .

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 2-9519605-9-X , p. 330
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 256
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , pp. 285-287.
  4. ^ Cadiou, p. 298
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-9519605-3-0 , pp. 335/336
  6. ↑ after 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.
  7. ↑ Chaumier, p. 257; France Football, July 14, 2009, p. 22

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personal data
SURNAME Rio, Patrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Petit-Quevilly , Seine-Maritime department