Pierre Repellini

Pierre Repellini ( born October 27, 1950 in Hyeres ) is a former French football player and coach and current official of the French football coach union. His entire professional time as a player he spent at AS Saint- Étienne and he ran four times for the national team of his country.

As a player in the club

Repellini grew up in the southern French town of Hyères and in his youth when located there Hyères FC playing football, the 173 -centimeter-tall player was first striker. In 1969 he was discovered by a talent scout Pierre Garonnaire and this could convince him to go to the youth department of the professional clubs AS Saint- Étienne. With Albert Batteux it was the coach of the first team that moved the technically very gifted and are noted for aggressive play actor for change from the storm in the outer defense. However, he remained henceforth versatile and played in some cases also in the midfield and in the storm. Batteux enabled him during the 1970/71 season to join the Erstligamannschaft for which the then 20- year-old could make his debut in a match against AS Nancy on 13 December 1970. Despite many well-known competitors, he ran up to the end of the season to nine times for a team that took second place in the table.

In the season 1971/72 he became an integral part of the team and was regularly summoned, although he received no permanent regular place. Against 1 FC Köln of young players also completed his first two games in European competition, even if his team is not able to qualify for the next round. In 1973, he finally managed to break through and formed on the side of Oswaldo Piazza, Gérard Farison and Alain Merchadier a part of the defensive line. This allowed for less with 40 goals conceded, as the defender of all the other teams and performed by their contribution to winning the Cup in 1974, which was the first national title of his career for Repellini. This was crowned by the entry into the national cup final in 1974, in which the player was also on the square and thanks to a 2-1 victory against AS Monaco also won this trophy. Following this, the young talent Gérard Janvion Repellini challenged. Therefore, he was not entirely uncontroversial, but was still called up regularly and so did his contribution to the defense of the league title, which succeeded in 1975. Added to this was in the cup final 1975, the chance of the second double success in league and cup in series. Although this was achieved by a 2-0 win against RC Lens, but was not at the final Repellini on the lawn. In 1976, the third title in series next to the catchment succeeded to the finals of the European Cup of Champions 1975/76. In this he was summoned, had buried by a 0-1 defeat against Bayern Munich hopes for a possible international titles, however. Nevertheless, he and his teammates were invited in recognition of their achievements in European competition to a reception at the former president Valéry Giscard d' Estaing.

After 1976 Saint- Étienne was unable to repeat his winning streak in the league, but made ​​the leap into the national cup final in 1977. Repellini had to watch a second time when his colleagues claimed by a 2-1 win over the Stade Reims the trophy for themselves. Since he still had no permanent place in the back line, he was allowed to develop during the season 1977/78 at times to his old position in the storm trying than actually there playing Hervé Revelli suffered a crisis. As Piazza to the club in 1979 turned his back Repellini was able to take his place in defense. There was one last successful year, in which he presented himself one last time on the European stage and was with the team in third place. 1980 ended the then 29 - year-old after 190 Erstligapartien with 13 goals, he played exclusively for Saint -Etienne, his professional career and returned to his homeland to drittklassig antretenden FC Hyères. This was followed by 1983, a move to Olympique Saint- Maximin, for which he took until he finally gave up playing football in 1986.

National

On September 8, 1973 Repellini debuted at the age of 22 years with a 3-1 victory against Greece for the French national team. Then fell back regularly for him until he denied on May 18, 1974 a 0-1 against Argentina, his fourth and last international match. All inserts in the jersey of his country, he was thus able to register in the season of his first championship.

Career coach and official career

Directly after he had in 1986 stopped playing football, he was hired as head of the youth department at his former club Saint- Étienne. The post he kept until he went to the third division side AS Lyon- Duchère in 1991 and there took over as coach. In 1992 he took the second division club Red Star Paris a job as an assistant coach, as which he assisted his former teammates and coach Robert Herbin. In the 1994/95 season he was promoted to head coach and remained in office until he was dismissed in 1996 for lack of sporting success. In 1997 he returned to Saint- Étienne, where he worked as a trainer with Robert Herbin. By now only second-rate club he almost relegated at the end of season 1997/98, which is why he had to leave the club again. Together with Jean -Luc Girard in 1999 he took over his slid down to the third tier former employer Red Star Paris. In 2000 he moved to the youth center of the club, before he again became the coach of the first team in January 2001. But this he could not save them from relegation, so he gave up the office in the summer of 2001.

2002 Repellini was elected vice president of the national union coach UNECATEF. In this post he remained for many years from now.

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