Éric Di Meco

Éric Di Meco ( born September 7, 1963 in Avignon, Vaucluse ) is a French former football legends and the local politicians. With Olympique Marseille defender won the French championship five times, which is a club record. He also scored for the team in 1993 won the Champions League. Another league title he won with AS Monaco.

Later, Di Meco engaged in the UMP party as a local politician in Marseille and also held the post of deputy mayor of the city.

Biography

Football

Di Meco came in 1980/81 to the crisis-hit club Olympique de Marseille, who languished at that time in the second division in 1984 and returned back to the top flight football. It succeeded Di Meco but not to play on his outside left in the trunk formation and was therefore initially borrowed in 1986 to AS Nancy and the following year to FC Martigues. The breakthrough he failed there too, so he pulled a retreat from professional football into consideration itself.

The positive turning point in his career came when former Marseille coach Gerard Banide brought him back to Olympique and the former attacker ordered on the defensive. As Fullback Di Meco unfurled his full talent and proved over the years as a reliable and uncompromising defender, was hard to get past that.

Between 1989 and 1996 he was also 23 times wear the jersey of the French national team. In 1996, he was doing well in the squad at the European Football Championship in England. there he was, however, only in the first game in the 1-0 win against Romania to the train, where he was in the 66th minute, replaced by Bixente Lizarazu. France was eliminated in the tournament in the semi-finals on penalties to the Czech Republic. In addition to the European Championship in 1992, this was the only tournament for France is qualified in those years,

Judging by the number of titles won, he is the most successful OM player of all time. Including the title of 1993, which was the club denied later because of manipulation, he was from 1989. Fifth consecutive French champion and also won the 1989 French Cup But the highlight was winning the 1993 inaugural Champions League under coach Raymond Goethals with a 1-0 win over AC Milan in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

As Olympique Marseille had been sentenced to the end of season 1993/94 due to manipulations in the era of the club president Bernard Tapie for relegation, Di Meco moved to AS Monaco. With the Monegasque he won the championship of the season 1996 / 97th In 1998, he finished at the Red and Whites as close to 35 -year-old his playing career.

Policy

Afterwards, Di Meco established as a politician in Marseille. He came first for the UMP, the center - right party of President Nicolas Sarkozy, in the municipal council of the city. From 2001 until his resignation in 2008 he was deputy mayor of the city. During this time he worked mainly in youth work and headed various prevention programs.