Francisco Rubio
Francisco " Paco" Rubio ( born December 6, 1953 in Saint- Amand- Montrond ) is a former French football player and later coach.
As a player in the club
Entry into professional football ( until 1975)
The 174 -centimeter midfielder Rubio began playing football in 1964 in infancy at the U.S. Ainay -le- Château. In 1971 he went to EDS Montlucon, where he aufrückte a year later in the second division team. In this he was promoted after a few months for regular players and busy especially the offensive department, where he was with eight goals in his first two years, even as the scorer successful. Already at 20 he was considered a key player of the team and aroused by his performance the interest of some first division. In the summer of 1975 before him lay two approximately equivalent bids the first division club AS Nancy AS Monaco. Possibly due to his personal contact Michel Platini of Nancy, whom he knew from the Military team of France, he chose this club.
Time in Nancy (1975-1983)
On August 8, 1975, he made his debut in a 3-3 draw against the U.S. Valenciennes Anzin in the jersey of his new club in the top French league. At Nancy he was from the beginning such a integral part of the starting eleven that he missed a match during the 1975/76 season. 1977, the team made the jump into fourth place and a year later the leap took place in the national cup final in 1978. Rubio was taken into account for the final and was able to celebrate a goal by Platini winning the trophy thanks to a 1-0 victory. This eligible to participate in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1978/79, helping the player to his debut in European competition, even if Nancy had been defeated in the second round Servette Geneva. 1979 Platini returned to the club 's back, after which the disposals of other performers followed, during Rubio remained faithful to Lorraine. He was temporarily placed as a striker and was able to contribute approximately ten goals per season. Despite consistently good performance for a club that was in the mid-table first division, a possible vocation escaped him in the national team. In 1983, he left Nancy to eight years in which he had hardly missed a meeting and had become by 299 Erstligaeinsätze to Rekorderstligaspieler of the club.
Slow progress towards the professional business ( after 1983 )
With Olympique Marseille in 1983 it was a abgerutschter to the second division club tradition, who took him under contract. For this he achieved in the course of the season 1983/84 a total of twelve gates, which he personally reached its best yield and at the same time contributed to the second division championship and the associated rise. In 1985, he was able to keep up with Marseille just in the first division, the division left but because he moved at the same time to the second division FC Tours. Although he, despite his relatively advanced age, a fixed regular place held in this and still failed to get the required services, aimed rise was two times in a row clearly missed. In 1987, the then 33 -year-old decided after 328 Erstligapartien with 61 hits and 180 second-division games with 42 hits for the termination of his professional career. He went to the fourth division U.S. Joue -les- Tours, at the same time he perceived the tasks of the coach from 1989 in a role as player-coach. With the team he managed in 1990 promotion to the third division before he finally gave up the active games in 1991 and the club at the same time also left as a coach.
National
For an insert in the French national team Rubio never came, but he took for his country at the Olympic football tournament in Montreal in 1976 in part. His debut at Olympic turf he succeeded on 19 July 1976, when he was called up in the first group match in a 4-1 win against Mexico. He stood with the two preliminary round games in the square and moved the team to the quarter- finals. He was also used and had to accept the resignation during his fourth Olympic game by a 0-4 defeat against the selection of the GDR. During the game, Rubio and his team-mate Jean Fernandez both had received a red card in the 57th minute. In addition to his participation in the Olympics he was a member in the early phase of his career, the French military team.
Coaching career and future life
After Rubio had already gained in Joue -les -Tours between 1989 and 1991 experience as a player-coach, he coached the then U.S. Autonomous Pouancé and then, around 1995, a club from Fontainebleau. He let himself henceforth firmly settled in the region around the capital Paris and got a job as a sports official for the department of Val- d'Oise. In addition, he took over in 2008, the French U-17 national team of women. In the summer of 2013, he returned after thirty years to Nancy, where he was given the responsibility as a coach for the second team.