Dominique Bathenay

Dominique Bathenay ( born February 13, 1954 in Pont- d'Ain / Department of Ain ) is a French former football player and current coach.

The football player

Club career

The defensive midfielder (later used as Vorstopper ) came as a 17 -year-old for AS Saint- Étienne, that club where the coach (even before Bathenays exchange Jean Snella, then Albert Batteux and in 1972 Robert Herbin ) young talent consistently early in the internals Ligaelf and the Greens made ​​with this concept for today 's most successful French club. However, the left-footed Bathenay needed for longer than, say, approximately the same age Dominique Rocheteau, Gérard Janvion and Christian Lopez: first during his military service in the legendary " football battalion " of Joinville burst of nodes, only there he developed the attitude and maturity that fully for his qualities could come validity. His first official match he played in October 1973, and from that time was valuable team players from the "First" of the ASSE not to displace. Two years later, after a European match, lifted him by the then coach of PSV Eindhoven, Kees Rijvers, himself a former Stéphanois, with the words "May I choose my a player, I would Bathenay take " from the star-studded show.

1974, 1975 and 1976 was Dominique Bathenay with Saint -Etienne French champion, won 1974, 1975 and 1977, the Coupe de France in 1974 and 1975 and thus also the Doublé. Two years after his debut in the Division 1 he traded for the first time the green club jersey against the blue National Dress. In 1976 he was in the final of the European Cup national champion, in the family had to be beaten but the Bayern Munich 0-1 the Verts.

After five years of highly successful, he moved in 1978 to the capital club Paris Saint- Germain FC, ​​where he was his collection of titles to add 1982 and 1983, two more cup wins. In 1985, he joined the unterklassigen FC Sète, where he prepared for the second year as player-coach to his new role next to the touchline.

Stations

  • Grange- les- Valence, Tournon ( until 1971, as a teenager )
  • AS Saint- Étienne (1971-1978)
  • Paris Saint- Germain FC (1978-1985)
  • FC Sète (1985-1987)

In the National Team

Between October 1975 and April 1982 denied Dominique Bathenay 20 caps for the Equipe Tricolore (16 in his time with the Greens, 4 PSG ), scoring four goals. In his first appearance, he scored the 1:2 in the Leipzig Central Stadium ( European Championship qualifier against East Germany ) the French hit, but was then called again until the new national team coach Michel Hidalgo 11 months later. He was 1978 World Cup participants (2 inserts), lost after switching to PSG but his place.

The coach

Bathenay trained successively FC Sète, Stade de Reims (1988 /89), U.S. Monastir in Tunisia (1989 /90), SC Choisy- le- Roi, was two years coach of the Seychelles and jumped in early 1996 for four months as interim coach " its " AS Saint -Etienne a, to prevent without their descent.

From 1996 to 2000, the five -time French Cup Winners president of the Federation Commission for the Coupe de France. Then he returned to the dugout, worked until December 2001 ( early release ) at Nîmes Olympique and then the CS Sedan, but with which he descended from the first division in 2003 and has since been replaced by his assistant coach. In the second half of 2005 Bathenay coached the national team and the Olympic team of the United Arab Emirates, in the meantime, the Olympic team of Qatar. From 2008 to 2009 he was again coach of the UAE.

Palmarčs as a player

  • French Champion: 1974, 1975, 1976 ( with Saint- Étienne )
  • French Cup Winners: 1974, 1975, 1977 ( with Saint- Étienne ), 1982, 1983 ( PSG )
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup: Finalist 1975/76
  • A total of 38 inserts ( 6 goals) in European cup competitions ( 25/4 for ASSE, 13 /2 for PSG)
  • 388 D1 inserts and 57 goals, of which 158/25 for ASSE, 230/32 for PSG
  • 20 A internationals ( 4 Goals )
  • National football team (France)
  • Frenchman
  • Football coach (France)
  • Born in 1954
  • Man
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