Philippe Piat

Philippe Piat (born June 18, 1942 in Casablanca ) is a former French football player and union leader . In the latter function, he is president of the French professional players' union UNFP to the present day and also heads the global trade union umbrella organization FIFPro .

Player career

Born in Morocco at the time , Philippe Piat first played in adulthood for the second division club AS Cannes and the amateur club Cercle Laïque Dijon . In 1965 the striker moved to the first division Racing Strasbourg . With the Alsatians he played 29 of the 38 point games, scored nine goals and finished the season as eighth in the league. But his name was missing in the final team that won the national cup ; he had scored a total of four of the six hits in the last sixteen and quarter-finals. There followed a year at AS Monaco , in which he even scored 16 goals, which earned him sixth place among the league goalscorer. Nevertheless, he returned to Strasbourg in 1967 , where he was the undisputed striker leader for the next three years and in 1970 - as the newly elected president of the professional footballers union (see below)  - with his team as fifth in the league, he achieved his best ranking to date. In the 1969/70 season, Piat's 20 league goals even meant fourth place among all goal scorers.

Nevertheless, he then signed with FC Sochaux , with whom he even finished the 1971/72 season in third place in Division 1 and in 1971, as in 1972, again appeared high on the scorer list (21 and 17 hits, 5th and 8th). Rank). In the winter break of 1972/1973 Piat returned after a total of 240 first division games in which he scored 101 goals but had not won a title, back to the second division; at Stade Laval he ended his playing career in 1974.

Club stations

• 1963/64 AS Cannes
• 1964/65 Cercle Laïque Dijonnais
• 1965/66 Racing Strasbourg
• 1966/67 AS Monaco
• 1967–1970 Racing Strasbourg
• 1970 – late 1972 FC Sochaux
• Early 1973–1974 Stade Laval

At the head of the soccer union

Philippe Piat joined the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels early on . In September 1969 the union members elected him for the first time as successor to Michel Hidalgo as their president. He still held this position at the end of 2014, when he was re-elected for two more years; However, Piat took care of his successor at an early stage and since 2006 has been an equal co-president with Sylvain Kastendeuch . From 2005 to 2007 he also chaired the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels ; since then he has been President of the European continental subdivisions of this umbrella organization. In October 2013 he was again elected President of FIFPro to succeed Leonardo Grosso .

Web links

• Piats data sheet at racingstub.com

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see the personalized data sheet for the 1965/66 season at racingstub.com
2. ↑ All information on Piats placements among the first division goal scorers according to Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 165-172.
3. ↑ Use figures 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.
4. ↑ see "Philippe Piat 3ème président de l'UNFP" ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the anniversary website of the UNFP, there the message of September 17, 1969 (No. 8 of 49) 
5. ^ Announcement in France Football of October 14, 2014, p. 11
6. ↑ see "Sylvain Kastendeuch élu coprésident de l'UNFP" ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the anniversary website of the UNFP, there the message of December 9, 2006 (No. 40 of 49) 
7. ↑ see the corresponding reports from 2005 ( memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and 2007 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on unfp.org  
8. ↑ FIFPro family welcomes six more members Press release on the FIFPro website of October 22, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013. (English)