HervÃ© Revelli

Hervé Revelli ( born May 5, 1946 in Verdun ) is a former French football player and coach.

The club career

The prolific, technical and strong in the head ball game, however most team relevant center forward came with 18 years at AS Saint- Étienne under the damaligem coach Jean Snella to his first stakes and was from the season 1966/67, for a regular for les Verts ( " the Greens " is the common French name for this club ). This season he won the first of seven league titles, became an instant with 31 -goal top scorer of the Division 1 and on top of that, so to speak, as icing on the cake, of Snella, who had temporarily additionally assumed the post of national coach after France disappointing verlaufenen World Cup in England, also appointed to the French national football team.

In the following four years, Hervé Revelli was - now under the new club coach Albert Batteux - another three -time national and even runner-up, two Cup Winners' Cup, French Footballer of the Year, won another top scorer and was twice in this Competition Second. He even had to prevail against excess strong competitor from the club as Robert Herbin and Salif Keïta especially. He benefited from the fact that he was spared injury, even though he acted always in the forefront.

1971, he moved for two years to OGC Nice, for whom he also shot 41 league goals in 1973 and was runner-up. A major reason for the change was that he there again on its sponsor, coach Snella met. But after his former teammate Robert Herbin had become the new coach at Saint- Étienne, Revelli returned to the Stéphanois. On the side of old and new players ( especially the young forward Dominique Rocheteau and his brother Patrick Revelli ) he added his already handsome trophy collection right away three more championship titles ( 1974-1976 ) and three Cup successes, also continued to deliver season after season, a two -digit number gates and to this day (January 2006) with 175 top scorer of AS Saint- Étienne and 216 and the second best french -born goalscorer of all time in France's top flight.

A highlight of Revellis career was the final of the European Cup of Champions: May 12, 1976, he was with the Greens on the lawn of Glasgow's Hampden Park, where it times not to score against the opposing goalkeeper had scored for a change, so that Hervé Revelli and the AS Saint- Étienne had to leave the European crown the German titleholder. In 1977, he added his collection of titles in fifth French Cup win and finished a year later his active career.

Stations

AS Saint -Étienne ( 1964-1971 )
OGC Nice (1971 to 1973)
AS Saint -Étienne ( 1973-1978 )

The National Players

Between September 1966 and March 1975 Revelli played a total of 30 games (15 each at Saint -Etienne and Nice) for the Équipe Tricolore, scoring fifteen goals. However, France was unable to qualify for the finals of the World and European championships in those years.

Life after playing career

1978 Revelli began a coaching education and then worked for LB Châteauroux (1980 to 1983) and in Draguignan. Further stations were clubs in Gabon and Mauritius, then again in France ( at AS Saint -Priest ) before he moved abroad again ( Tunisia). It was followed by four years as a councilor for social issues in the department of Loire, then for a time as a technical advisor to the Football Association of Qatar. Meanwhile, Hervé Revelli moved back to France.

Palmarčs

French Champion: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976 ( runner-up to 1971 [all with Saint- Étienne ] and 1973 [ with Nice ] )
French Cup Winners: 1968, 1970, 1974 ( but not used in the final ), 1975, 1977 [ with Saint -Etienne ]
European Champion Clubs' Cup: Finalist 1976; a total of 32 games ( 10 goals)
30 A international matches, 15 goals
389 games ( 216 goals) in Division 1; Top scorer in 1967 and 1970, the third-best scorer of all time D1
French Footballer of the Year: 1969

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