Charles Orlanducci

Charles Orlanducci ( born October 28, 1951 in Vescovato in Corsica ) is a French former football player, who played almost his entire career on the SEC Bastia and ran aground once for the national team of his country.

Club career

The 175 -centimeter defender Orlanducci moved when settled in Corsica Bastia SEC during the 1969/70 season in the first team and was able to present themselves in the course of the season twice in France's highest league. In 1971 he was called up for army service he was allowed to perform in specially created for athletes battalion de Joinville near Paris. Given met the leaders, the decision to loan him to the league rivals Red Star Paris. In the capital club, he was initially so unknown that he had to purchase a ticket before his first game to ever get into the stadium. However, he could increasingly be established and regularly stood for a team on the pitch with which he narrowly avoided relegation in 1972. In the same year he returned to Bastia, where he during the 1973/74 season could win a regular place itself. From then on, he was able to assert its place in the starting eleven and work your way to the relegation during his early career club into the upper mid-table. 1977 moved the team up to third place, which they 1977/78 entitled to participate in the UEFA Cup. Orlanducci was consistently used and struck with his comrades all competitors until the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven we faced in the final. The finale was still being played in two finals and the defender led the team in both as master on the court, although he after a goalless draw in the first leg, hopes for the title had buried due to a 0-3 defeat in the return leg.

After moderate success in European competition Orlanducci had to witness the crash of his team back into the lower half of the league table, but his club remained faithful even in these times. This paid off, as Bastia made ​​the entry into the national cup final in 1981. With a pass to Roger Milla, he served as a preparer to hit to make it 2-0 standings and ultimately accomplished by a 2-1 final score against AS Saint- Étienne winning the trophy. To this end, the team secured a participation in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1981/82, where the actors were unable to match their strength of 1977 and were eliminated in the second round against Dinamo Tbilisi. Orlanducci subsequently experienced more years on the brink of relegation, before he lost his place in the course of the 1985/86 season and the team had to join the second division as Table simultaneously. After 17 years of excellence of the players went in with the second- highest division, but managed not even there the return to the first team. In 1987, he finished with 35 years of 440 Erstligapartien with 13 goals and ten second-division games with a goal his professional career. As he played his 430 top-flight appearances in the jersey of Bastia, he is the record player of the club in the top domestic league championship. 2006, the former footballer was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of his now renamed SC Bastia former clubs. This office he said, until he resigned in May 2010 from the post.

National

Orlanducci was 24 years old when he died in a 0-0 draw against Belgium on 15 November 1975 his debut for the French national team. The meeting, in which concerned the already missed qualifying for the European Championship in France in 1976 remain his only use in the jersey of his country.

Game style

His role in the defense led Orlanducci mostly in the style of a bias Oppers. By his own admission he disobeyed well partly the usual style of the ball as quickly as possible to pass on, with the intention to get involved in the offensive game. The target he calls here to help the players in critical situations to build outnumbered situations in the game forward. This was not initially approved by coach Pierre Cahuzac, who supervised the team of Bastia in the 1970s, which, however, did not change his style according Orlanducci.