Yvon Le Roux

Yvon Le Roux
Personnel
birthday	April 19, 1960
place of birth	Plouvorn ,  France
size	188 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1983	Stade Brest	167 (23)
1983-1985	AS Monaco	49 0(6)
1985-1987	FC Nantes	71 0(9)
1987-1989	Olympique Marseille	63 0(4)
1989-1990	Paris Saint-Germain	13 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1989	France	28 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Yvon Le Roux (born April 19, 1960 in Plouvorn , Finistère ) is a French football player and coach .

Player career

In the club

The tall and athletic central defender , whose strengths were his physical assertiveness, a hard shot and the header game , started at the club in his Breton birthplace. At the age of 15 he found himself in the training center of Stade Brest (from 1982: Brest Armorique FC ), at 17 he was already playing regularly in the second division , where he scored eight goals in the 1978/79 season. In July 1979 he played his first game in Division 1 for the promoted team . After prompt relegation and renewed promotion, he came in three first division years on 94 league appearances and 15 goals; his national team career began at Brest.

In 1983, Le Roux moved to AS Monaco , where he formed a strong central defense together with Manuel Amoros , which had to make do with second place in the championship and national cup in 1984, but won the Coupe de France in 1985 . In the final against Paris Saint-Germain of all places, however, the defensive giant was missing due to an injury. Then followed two years at FC Nantes , in which he could almost play through, but again only reached the runner-up. He won the championship title only in 1989 with Olympique Marseille , for which he had competed since 1987, and in the same season he was  also in the cup final - alongside three-time goalscorers Jean-Pierre Papin , Franck Sauzée , Karlheinz Förster and Klaus Allofs on the pitch, which his team won 4-3 against Monaco.

Nevertheless, Yvon Le Roux wore a different jersey again from the beginning of the 1989/90 season: for Paris Saint-Germain he was used in 13 league games up to October and in the last two of his total of 19 European Cup matches before the one he suffered with the French national team Injury (see below) made him a sports disabled person .

In two national teams

Yvon Le Roux, who had already been captain of the junior national team (Espoirs) , was appointed to a total of 28 senior international matches in the Équipe tricolore between April 1983 and October 1989 ; on his debut against Yugoslavia he also scored his only goal in the blue jersey. In 1984 he was European champion with the national team under coach Michel Hidalgo , and he was also in the squad for the 1986 World Cup . However, he was sent off in France's greatest international success in the 86th minute of the final against Spain ; and two years later he came only to a single use in the game for third place against Belgium (4-2 win after extra time), because the duo Battiston / Bossis was set by trainer Henri Michel .

Le Roux has also played several times with the Bleus against teams from German-speaking countries: three times against the GDR (1985, 1986, 1987), twice against West Germany (1984, 1987) and once each against Austria (1984) and Luxembourg (1985). In his last international match against Scotland , he injured his right knee so badly that he had to end his career at the age of 29.

Almost two decades later, however, he came to another international assignment that he is particularly proud of: He was in the ranks of the Breton national team that played against an African all-star in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire in April 2007 -Team played.

Trainer

After his forced departure from the sports field, Yvon Le Roux, who was often referred to as "le menhir" (in German: the menhir) or "Colossus of Plouvorn" because of his appearance, moved back to his home department of Finistère , where he initially opened a newsagents shop in Landivisiau and completed the trainer training at the same time. Very soon he worked again in this profession, first from 1991 to 1993 at his first professional club Stade Brest , which found itself in the amateur camp after bankruptcy and re-establishment, and then at Stade Quimper (1994-1997), where he was next to the league eleven coached the youth teams. This was followed by ten years as sports director at the amateur club Union Sportive from Concarneau, which is neighboring Quimper , until 2008 . He then took a step in football and now earns his living as a self-employed project developer; According to his own admission, he is “constantly on the move between Bénodet and Fouesnant , looking for building land,” which he develops, parcels and resells.

Palmarès

• French champion : 1989 (and runner-up 1984, 1986)
• French cup winner : 1985 (without final appearance), 1989 (and finalist 1984)
• a total of 290 first division appearances and 35 goals
• 19 games (one goal) in the European Cup, including 1 for Monaco, 9/1 for Nantes, 7 for Marseille, 2 for Paris
• 28 full international appearances (one goal), including 2 during his time with Brest, 10 with Monaco, 8 with Nantes, 5 with Marseille and 3 with Paris
• European Champion : 1984
• World Cup participant 1986 : 3rd place

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
• Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007. ISBN 2-916400-07-9

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the FFF website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 194
2. ^ Cadiou, p. 261.
3. ↑ Cadiou, p. 261; Pécheral, pp. 436f.
4. ^ Cadiou, p. 262
5. ↑ Article “Au milieu des terrains” in France Football of January 13, 2015, p. 66