Yannick Le Saux

Yannick Le Saux (born May 11, 1965 in Rennes ) is a former French football player .

Career

Youth (until 1984)

The 174 centimeter tall striker Le Saux began playing football as a teenager at a club from Mordelles in the greater Brittany region of Rennes. In 1978, as a C-youth , he succeeded in moving to the youth department of the Stade Rennes professional club . He had already shown interest in the young player two years earlier, but he could not have come to training at the time. He went through the different age groups, appeared regularly as a goal scorer and took part in a semi-final of the Coupe Gambardella junior cup competition as an A-youth . In addition, he carried out auxiliary work for the association. It turned out, however, that he had no prospect of appearances in the first team at Rennes, which is why he moved to the amateur club Stade Saint-Brieuc in 1984 at the age of 19 .

Into professional football via Saint-Brieuc (1984–1992)

He quickly established himself at Saint-Brieuc, but was only an amateur and at the same time employed by the energy supplier Électricité de France . On the football field, he presented himself very promisingly, which is why he came back into the focus of his previous club from Rennes, where his suitability for its professional team was tested. However, nothing came of that and so he remained loyal to the fourth-class Stade Saint-Brieuc until he was contacted by Noël Le Graët and in the summer of 1987 went to the second division club EA Guingamp led by this .

During the 1987/88 season, the then 22-year-old made his professional debut in the second highest division, but was mainly called up in the Guingamps reserve team. This changed in the following season, in which he was regularly used with the professionals and scored his first goal for the team against Stade Reims . He scored a total of eleven goals by the end of the season.

In 1989 he left Guingamp and signed with league rivals US Orléans . He also managed to score eleven goals for him, but after a year he said goodbye and found work at Stade Laval, who also played second class . The West French had promised him a regular place, but shortly afterwards signed a player, the Dane Tammy Haddaoui , who was mostly preferred. He stayed two years in which he did not get more than six goals, and returned in 1992 to his now third-rate club from Saint-Brieuc.

Return to Saint-Brieuc and last professional years (1992–1999)

His step back into the amateur field was accompanied by a job at the radio station Europe 2 . At the same time, he experienced a resurgence in his footballing career when he became the top scorer of the third division with 30 goals in the course of the 1992/93 season and also helped his club to rise. He was able to build on this when he scored 27 times immediately after his return to the professional field and was also the top scorer in the second division. In addition, his team with the sixth place in the table was not too far removed from promotion to the top division. The subsequent 1994/95 season was different, in which he was only able to record six successes and ultimately had to accept relegation due to the poorer goal difference. He was then given a strike partner in Didier Monczuk , who was also considered a dangerous striker. In fact, they managed to return directly to the second division in 1996, but in the spring of 1997 Saint-Brieuc had to withdraw from the game due to financial problems and crashed into a significantly lower amateur division.

With Red Star Paris he found another second division club in April 1997 who signed him. However, he did not feel particularly comfortable with this one, was less successful as a goalscorer and then had to struggle with a long-lasting knee injury. In the summer of 1998, his contract ended prematurely, which after 187 second division games with 79 goals meant his departure from professional football. The traditional club SCO Angers , which had crashed into the third division , signed him, but he continued to suffer from injuries and finally gave up playing football in January 1999 at the age of 33. However, he remained loyal to the SCO and worked for its communications and marketing department until 2003. He later worked in the media industry.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football: Yannick Le Saux , footballdatabase.eu
2. ^ Yannick Le Saux - Fiche et statistiques , stade-rennais-online.com
3. ^ Yannick Le Saux: "Rennes est sur la bonne voie" , stade-rennais-online.com