Jean-Pierre Posca
Jean -Pierre Posca ( born March 10, 1952 in Colombier- Fontaine, † 1 January 2010) was a French football player.
Career
As a youth player is a native of eastern France Posca joined the regional professional club FC Sochaux, with whom he came in the course of the 1970/71 season on some missions in the second team, which took at that time in the second division. In 1971 he was appointed coach Paul Barret as a substitute for Albert Vanucci in the Erstligamannschaft; in a team, which at that time was one of the strongest in the country, he played but not more than some minor role until he aufrückte in the first team after a lack of performance of the team for the season of 1973/74. After the loss of key competitors to Posca injured in 1974 and had some time to fight with his teammate Jean -Paul Pfertzel before he could secure his place and defend in the course of subsequent years.
The late 1970s brought the club a mediocre results until Posca with the team in 1980 reached a second place and thus the runner-up of the country. He also qualified for the second time after 1976 to participate in the UEFA Cup, where he moved with Sochaux semi-finals and failed there against AZ Alkmaar. However, a heavily manned squad took shape after the good international performance, through which the player forfeited his place in the course of the 1982/83 season. Rate this place he could zurückerkämpfen before he was sent to the reserve team in 1984. For this he ran a year long and left Sochaux in 1985 with 33 years of 358 Erstligapartien and nine goals and seven second-division games and other inserts for reserve selection.
He continued his career at third division football Avignon, where he was coached by his former team- mate Robert Pintenat; In 1986, he returned after a year in the third division football finally back. The ex- professional who is together with René Gardien place three of the players of FC Sochaux with most league appearances for the club was, later as a director of a company that sold the pools. Posca was suffering from cancer and died in 2010 after a long illness at the age of 57 years.