Philippe Gondet
Philippe Gondet ( born May 17, 1942 in Blois ) is a French former football player.
The club career
Philippe Gondet played as a teenager, first with the AAJ Blois in his native city. When he began studying in Paris, he joined the traditional but long since vanished in the amateur stock Stade Français. In 1963 the first-time Division 1 team FC Nantes the center forward contract, which developed under coach José Arribas and on the side of players like Jean -Claude Suaudeau, Jacques Simon and Ramon Muller quickly became a feared by the opposing defenders scorer. In the season 1964/65 Gondet played almost no game of the first round because he had suffered a protracted infection in the Military World Championship; but in the second half he was still wearing a crucial role in Nantes that quite surprisingly won the French league title.
The next season started so well for him that he was not only the first time called into the national team, but the same also voted Footballer of the Year in 1965. At the end of 1965/66 season, FC Nantes had defended his championship title and Philippe Gondet had ( so the common name of the club in France) scored 36 of his 84 league goals Canaris himself; the addition again brought him the top scorer at the end of 1966 and the title of best soccer player in France a. The only downer in an all-round successful year: the Doublé Nantes was denied because the FC surprisingly defeated in the final of the French Cup against Racing Strasbourg; Gondet also remained in the Parc des Princes stadium without scoring.
In the following years, the center forward never reached such a wealth of successes; this also contributed numerous enemy attacks, which it, inter alia, multiple ACL tears bestowed. In 1967 he was again runner-up with Nantes and 1970 he was also again in the cup final - but this time the favorite was not called FC Nantes, but AS Saint -Étienne, and confirmed this role with a 5-0 impressive. 1971/72 Gondet moved to league rivals Red Star Paris where he met his long-time strike partner " Jacky " Simon; But for Red Star he was only in half of the encounters on the pitch. At the end of this season of not quite 30 -year-old striker had to finally give up because of his knee problems to competitive sports.
Club stations
- Association Amicale de la Jeunesse Blois ( as a teenager )
- Stade Français Paris (1961? -1963 )
- FC Nantes (1963-1971)
- Red Star Paris (1971 /72)
The National Players
Philippe Gondet has denied tricolore between October 1965 and October 1970 14 caps for the Équipe and scored seven goals in it. In his first match, a World Cup qualifying game in which set it up coach Henri Guérin until shortly before the game instead of etat even veterans Yvon Douis, he scored the only goal of the game at the same time secured the ticket to England and the first victory in a official international match against nemesis Yugoslavia meant. In the 1966 World Cup in England Gondet, who was this year in his power zenith, the French squad and played in all three games in one for the Bleus disappointingly running tournament, as they had to go home after the first round belonged.
Life after the active period
Philippe Gondet then worked for two decades as a representative of a large paper company today and enjoys his early retirement, which he spends in the vicinity of Nantes.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1965, 1966 ( and runner-up 1967)
- French Cup Winner: None (but Finalist 1966, 1970)
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 6 games, 4 goals
- 14 'A' matches, 7 goals; World Cup participant in 1966
- French Footballer of the Year: 1965, 1966
- Scorer in Division 1: 1966 ( 36 hits )
- 212 inserts and 100 goals in Division 1, of which 194 /98 Nantes, 18 /2 for Red Star