Reynald Pedros

Reynald Pedros (2017)

Reynald Pedros (born October 10, 1971 in Orléans , Loiret ) is a former French football player who then worked as a coach .

Club career

Pedros, whose parents immigrated from Portugal , started his career at FC Nantes , from whose talent factory he came from. In the 1994/95 season he won the French championship with Nantes . Together with Patrice Loko , Christian Karembeu , Claude Makélélé and Nicolas Ouédec - all almost equally young - the talented, left-footed, offensive midfielder played a key role in the title. The fans spoke of the so-called "Trio magique". In the same season, Pedros' Nantes made it to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup , where they failed at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In the 1995/96 Champions League season , Pedros was there when Nantes eliminated Spartak Moscow in the quarter -finals, but then lost the semifinals to Juventus Turin . 1996/97 followed six months at Olympique Marseille .

In 1997 Pedros moved to Italy in Serie A for AC Parma . There he could not prevail because of the strong competition, moved to SSC Napoli in the first half of the season and left the country that same season. He returned to France and signed on to Olympique Lyonnais . In 1999 he moved to the south of France to play for HSC Montpellier . There he met his former companions Loko and Ouédec again. His time in Montpellier was ambivalent: on the one hand, he won the Inter-Toto Cup with the club in the summer of 1999 (final victory against Hamburger SV ), on the other hand, the club was relegated to the second division the following summer . After brief stints in Toulouse and at SC Bastia , Pedros ended his professional career in 2003, during which he made a total of 217 first division appearances in France , scoring 25 goals.

Stations

• FC Nantes (1990–1996): 152 D1 appearances, 22 goals
• Olympique de Marseille (1996): 23 D1 appearances
• AC Parma (1997): 4 Serie A appearances
• SSC Napoli (1997): 3 Serie A appearances
• Olympique Lyonnais (1997/98): 15 D1 appearances, 2 goals
• Montpellier Hérault SC (1999/2000): 4 D1 appearances
• Toulouse FC (2000/01): 8 D1 appearances, 1 goal
• SC Bastia (2001-2003): 15 D1 missions
• Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize (2004-2006)
• La Baule (2006/07)

National team

Pedros played a total of 25 times for the French national team between July 1993 and November 1996 (22 of them during his time with Nantes and three with Marseille) and scored 4 goals. In 1996 he was part of the French squad at the European Championships in England . In this tournament he became a tragic figure when he missed the last, decisive penalty in the semifinals against the Czech Republic and France was eliminated.

Activities after the time as a player

Reynald Pedros initially trained two amateur teams from the immediate vicinity of his native city from 2008; in the 2008/09 season he worked for FCO Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle , from 2009 to 2012 for FC Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Hilaire , which he moved from fifth to fourth league, the Championnat de France Amateur , led. He then worked for five years as a consultant for the pay TV channel Canal + . Since the summer of 2017 it is equipped with a contract for two seasons, succeeds Gérard Prêcheur head coach at the Erstligafrauen of Olympique Lyon .

Evidence and Notes

1. ↑ Article Reynald Pedros new trainer of the orienteering women from May 22, 2017 at footofeminin.fr