Bruno Bini

Bruno Bini ( born October 1, 1954 in Orléans ) is a French footballer. From February 2007 to July 2013, he coached the main responsibility of France women's national.

Career as a player

Bruno Bini, whose father Pierre had been a successful professional football player who was in the late 1940 champion and cup winner with Stade Reims, has never even played in the highest league. As a teenager, Bruno Bini belonged to two clubs from the home of his ancestors, first Laragne Sports and 1971-1973 AS Aix. His other stations were Nancy (1973 /74), Tours FC (1974 /75), Arago Sports Orléanais (1975 /76), FC Meung -sur- Loire ( 1976-1979 ) and U.S. Orléans ( 1979-1981 ).

Career as a coach and official

Getting Started

From 1976 to 1985 Bruno Bini worked as a sports teacher in the judicial service; the next three years he was responsible for the organization of gaming operations in the department of Eure- et- Loir. Since September 1993, he was also assistant coach of the Juniorinnennationalelf and since September, 1997 head coach of the French U-18/U-19 of women. On behalf of FIFA, he led the mid-1990s by the way repeated coaching courses in Africa, including in Guinea and Rwanda.

In 1998, he was in double feature also for the gaming operations in the Loiret, those responsible for the Ligue de Méditerranée in the southeastern region of France since January 1999. His greatest successes in the field of youth he reached when his players in Sweden in Germany European champions were in the U-19 European Championship in 2002 and runner-up at the European Championships in 2003.

Woman coach

When the woman head coach Élisabeth Loisel early 2007 announced her departure, certain of the national football federation FFF Bini her successor; his first big target with the women, the qualification for the 2009 European Championship in Finland, where the Bleues had to establish themselves especially against Iceland, he reached with only one defeat. Still sovereign succeeded his players, of which he gave some already taken care of in the youth selections, the qualification for the World Cup 2011. During the World Cup finals in Germany reached the Frenchwomen offensive and combination safe occurring the semi-finals, where they lost but equally (1:3 against the United States ) as in the match for third place ( 1-2 against Sweden). Nevertheless presented this fourth world rank represents the hitherto successful performance of Bleues, especially since he was associated with the first-time participation in the Olympic football tournament in 2012. Then FFF president Noel Le Graët Bini extended contract until 2013; after France had qualified for the European Championship in 2013, he was considered automatically for a further two years up to and including the World Cup 2015.

End of October 2011, FIFA had nominated Bruno Bini for their ten -member pre-selection for the award as the FIFA women's football coach ( in ) of 2011 ( Ballon d' Or), where he was elected to the third place; In 2012 he is again in the ten candidates, ranking at the end again in third place. After the French had also completed the Olympic tournament without a medal in 2012 - although they were the most successful European team there - the coach thought publicly about whether he was still the right thing to motivate the internationals. Subsequently, he joined not only the European Championship qualifiers with the Frenchwoman again without loss of points, but also - as the only participating nation - the three group matches at the finals in Sweden. That the favored France in the subsequent quarter-finals, as in 2009, was eliminated on penalties, threw in the domestic media, the question of the reasons for this, which is why the Bleues failed in crucial situations again and again, which is the proportion of the coach it. A few days later, the Executive Committee of the FFF decided to end Bini's 2015 contract early and set the previous U-18 national team coach Philippe Bergeroo in his place. After 28 years working for the FFF both sides agreed in November 2013 on the modalities of the contract.

Trainer Philosophy

Bini's credo is based on the realization that the French women "with the strength in the tackle and the running speed of Germans, Swedes or Norwegians can not keep up, which is why we must oppose this our technical and tactical advantages ". For this is the teamwork of outstanding importance; he justified his selection of the World Cup squad in 2011 with the words " These are not the 21 best players in France, but the best that can go far in the competition as a group ."

For his work as a trainer particularly influential were Albert Batteux, in which he was often at home as a child ( " he had the magic of the word " ), Michel Hidalgo ( " Because of its humanistic attitude and its emphasis on the educator role of the coach, I feel myself somewhat like his son " ) and, more recently, " Gaby " Robert, who convinced him of the primacy of playing in front of the fighting. His own interpretation of this educator role expressed, for example, during the World Cup 2011 is that the Camus lovers in the team hotel each have a room set up as a " sports and literary café ", which he stocked with about 50 titles ( including works of Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Saint -Exupéry, but also Coelho ).

Bruno Bini is married and father of a child.