Philippe Gondet

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Philippe Gondet
Personnel
Surname Philippe Gondet
birthday May 17, 1942
place of birth Blois ,  France
date of death January 21, 2018
Place of death Vertou ,  France
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
AAJ Blois
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
-1963 Stade Français
1963-1971 FC Nantes 194 (98)
1971-1972 Red Star Paris 18 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1970 France 14 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Philippe Gondet (born May 17, 1942 in Blois , † January 21, 2018 in Vertou ) was a French football player .

The club career

As a teenager, Philippe Gondet first played for AAJ Blois in his hometown. When he began studying in Paris, he joined the traditional Stade Français , which has long since disappeared from the amateur camp . In 1963, the first division 1 promoted FC Nantes signed the center forward , who quickly developed into a goal scorer feared by opposing defenders under coach José Arribas and alongside players like Jean-Claude Suaudeau , Jacques Simon and Ramón Muller . In the 1964/65 season Gondet played almost no game in the first half of the season because he had contracted a protracted infection at the World Military Championship; but in the second half of the season he made a decisive contribution to the fact that Nantes surprisingly won the French championship .

The next season started so well for him that he was not only called up for the first time in the national team, but was also voted Footballer of the Year 1965 . At the end of this season, FC Nantes had defended its championship title and Philippe Gondet scored 36 of the 84 league goals of his Canaris (the common name of the club in France) himself; this also brought him the top scorer's crown and at the end of 1966 again the title of best footballer in France. The only downer in an all-round successful year: The Doublé was denied to Nantes because FC surprisingly lost to Racing Strasbourg in the final of the French Cup ; Gondet also failed to score in the Prinzenparkstadion . His 36 goals have been a record for more than half a century that no Frenchman had achieved in the first division up to and including the 2016/17 season.

In the following years, the center forward never achieved such a wealth of successes; Numerous enemy attacks contributed to this. a. brought several cruciate ligament tears . In 1967 he was runner-up again with Nantes and in 1970 he was again in the cup final - but this time the favorite was not FC Nantes, but AS Saint-Étienne , and they impressively confirmed this role with a 5-0 win. In the summer of 1971 Gondet moved to league rivals Red Star Paris , where he met his long-time strike partner "Jacky" Simon; for Red Star he was only on the field in half of the matches. At the end of this season, the not quite 30-year-old striker had to give up competitive sport after 212 appearances and 100 goals in Division 1 because of his knee problems.

The national player

Philippe Gondet played 14 international matches for the Équipe tricolore between October 1965 and October 1970 , scoring seven goals. In his first encounter, a World Cup qualifier for which national coach Henri Guérin had set him up just before the start of the game instead of the regular Yvon Douis , he scored the only goal of the game, which also secured the ticket to England and the first victory an official international match against feared opponents Yugoslavia .

At the 1966 World Cup in England , Gondet, who was at his peak that year, was part of the French squad and played all three matches in a tournament that was disappointing for the Bleus , as they had to return home after the preliminary round.

Life after the active time

Philippe Gondet then worked for a large paper manufacturer for over two decades and then enjoyed an early retirement, which he spent in the immediate vicinity of Nantes .

Palmarès

literature

  • Louis Naville: Di Nallo - Gondet - Loubet - Revelli. Carré d'as du football. Solar, Paris 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FC Nantes. L'ancien attaquant Philippe Gondet est décédé . Le Télégramme, January 21, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Article "Gondet - a record for history" in France Football of January 23, 2018, p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Gondet, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Blois
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2018
Place of death Vertou