Éric Pécout

Éric Pécout ( born February 17, 1956 in Blois ) is a French former football player, who won a total of five national titles as Master or Cup Winners' Cup. The club soccer, he has remained intact even after his playing days in different functions.

Club career

Éric Pécout came as a 14 -year-old, freshly baked winner of the Concours du jeune footballeur in the youth development center of Nantes, where his older cousin Philippe Gondet was successful as a striker for years. Three years later, coach José Arribas also acting as the center-forward left-footed Pécout for the first time in its Erstligaelf on. 1977, at the end of his third season, he won with the Canaris - so the players of FC Nantes are often referred because of their yellow dresses in France - his first league title, and it developed under new coach Jean Vincent becoming the top scorer. In the 1978/79 season he was with 22 point game gates even the second most successful league goal scorer, and up to the mid-1980s he was on this list repeatedly in the top 20. He was considered " a shock striker too cute to team player and technically adept ."

In 1979, he was instrumental in that Nantes in its history won the National Cup for the first time. In the final game against AJ Auxerre, he brought his team a 1-0 lead and put in the extension of two more hits to make it 2-1 and a 4-1 final score after. He was the first of up to now (2009 ) only two players who get three goals in a final of the Coupe de France. By 1981 his career was a steep climb: on the side of players like Henri Michel, Jean -Paul Bertrand- Demanes, Patrice Rio, Maxime Bossis, Oscar Muller and Loïc Amisse was Pécout 1978, 1979 and 1981 runner-up in 1980 again champion, also personally 1979 also to the national team ( see below). In Europe Cup Winners' Cup 1979/80 contributed his seven goals to any significant extent to the fact that the Canaris reached the semi-finals he met three times against Cliftonville FC Steaua Bucharest and, one more time against FK Dynamo Moscow. Only against Valencia he managed no goals. The following season in Division 1, he opened with a double strike in the 3-2 in Nîmes - but after the third round of the doctors diagnosed a malignant Wade disease that sentenced him to a five-month break. But he was back in the league game, the FCN in April 1981 lost at the Stade Marcel- Saupin 0-1 against Auxerre; this was Nantes ' first home defeat after 92 point games, so almost three years, and to date league record. Shortly afterwards, the very expensive commitment of Vahid Halilhodžić the upcoming season, the club presidency was early known; in the summer left Éric Pécout Nantes and was hired by the AS Monaco on.

With the Monegasque his soaring sat seamlessly continued: In 1982, he won his third championship there. The following season, however, closed the ASM "only" as in sixth from. This took Pécout the occasion of a renewed change of club: 1983/84 he played at FC Metz, and in turn, where he won a title after the Lorraine had the upper hand in the final of the Coupe de France with 2-0 - he himself was against the AS however, Monaco has succeeded not score because coach Kasperczak had withdrawn him into midfield. In the championship, but only a mediocre placement for Metz jumped out, and therefore the attacker wore from 1984 to the dress of Racing Strasbourg. Although he was back there on the side of Walter Kelsch to old danger - he scored in 1984/85, as well as the German, twelve point Goals -, the Alsatian found yet in this and the following season only in the basement table again. 1986 Racing had under his new trainer Robert Herbin actually relegated to the second division, and Éric Pécout accepted an offer of the ambitious Premier League rivals SM Caen. In 1988, he led the Normans to climb, did not return even though the " footballing upper house " back, but moved to FC Tours, who had asked him a job in club management in view. During the season, he played even two third league games for Tours; thereby pass him his last three competitive goal, and he belonged to the squad of a team that accomplished the ascent to a higher league again.

Stations

• Football Club de Nantes (1970-1981, from 1974/75 as a professional )
• Association Sportive de Monaco (1981-1983)
• Football Club de Metz (1983 /84)
• Racing Club de Strasbourg (1984-1986)
• Stade Malherbe Caen (1986-1988, in D2)
• Football Club de Tours (1988 /89, D3)

In the National Team

Although he was a total of just over 30 times in the squad, Éric Pécout came only five more meetings between February 1979 ( debut against Luxembourg ) and May 1980 in the French A- national team to use. Here he managed a hit against Czechoslovakia. To his personal regret he was neither 1978 nor 1982 World Cup squad of Les Bleus. Had with coach Michel Hidalgo, the Pécout 1978 not yet seriously considered, Bernard Lacombe was set as a center forward.

Life after the player time

Until 1993 he worked in the management of FC Tours, was there at times also sports director. Then he worked in an event agency as head of sports marketing. For several years, called his employer Paris Saint- Germain FC, ​​where he was one of the main individuals responsible for recruiting new players is present.

Palmarčs

• French Champion: 1977, 1980 ( each with Nantes ), 1982 ( with Monaco)
• French Cup Winners: 1979 ( with Nantes ), 1984 ( Metz )
• 5 'A' matches ( 1 results) for France
• 277 games and 112 goals in Division 1, of which 156 /73 Nantes, 38/17 for Monaco, 29 /8 for Metz 54/14 for Strasbourg
• 16 European Cup bets and 7 goals, including 13/7 for Nantes, 3/ 0 for Monaco