Jean-Louis Cazes
Jean -Louis Cazes ( born October 2, 1951 in Bayonne ) is a French former football player and coach.
Playing career
Cazes began playing football at two small clubs in his hometown of Bayonne. As a teenager, his decision against the football seemed to have fallen when he played from 1967 to 1969 rugby, but then returned to his club. He made the talent scouts of AS Saint- Étienne attention and was taken at the professional club in 1971. However, neither Albert nor Batteux Robert Herbin offered him as a coach a perspective on a place in the team. He therefore played for the reserve team, with whom he won the third league championship in the season 1974/75. At the same time he made his debut during the season in the first division, complimented with a one insert portion of the profits of the championship, which will then count it as a title.
Despite his hopeless role in Saint- Étienne is Cazes could recommend thanks to his performances in the reserve team at Erstligakonkurrenten SEC Bastia in Corsica, where he was taken in 1975 under contract, after he had completed before a three-week trial program. Unlike in Saint- Étienne sat with Pierre Cahuzac the coach on him, so that at the time of the change 23 -year-old established himself as a regular player from the start. In this role, he experienced the UEFA Cupsaison 1977/78, when the team reached the final. Cazes was in two finals against PSV Eindhoven on the court, failed after a 0-0 draw in the first leg but due to a 0:3 in the second leg in a possible title. He then joined the team several times in the relegation battle. The first Cup win of his career he was able to celebrate, as he entered the final of the 1981 Bastia Coupe de France and this won against his former club Saint- Étienne 2-1. This was also associated with a further participation in the European Wettbewarb, although not so successful was like four years earlier. A shin injury ended in the season 1983/84 his time as a regular player. An attempt to return to the first team was unsuccessful, so without the use of 1985, he ended his career after one year, during which he had played 277 first division matches and scored seven goals.
Coaching career
Directly after end of his career Cazes returned to his home region around Bayonne. There he took over in 1990 the responsibility as a coach at a club unterklassigen from Anglet. In 1994 he returned for a year to one of his youth clubs from Bayonne, before he again coach in Anglet in 1995. He led the team first in the fifth and then up to the fourth league and retained his post until he moved to the post of sporting director in 2010.