Xavier Gravelaine
Xavier Grave Laine ( born October 5, 1968 in Tours) is a French former football player whose sports biography has a higher than average number of club changes.
The club career
The hulking striker and top scorer was during his playing days (1987-2004) to the " tragic hero " in the world of football in France: Except for the first commitment at Caen, where he played so successful - with 20 goals, he was the 1992/93 second top scorer in the Division 1 - that his Paris Saint-Germain made an irresistible offer, he has brought for permanent deployment in almost any of his later associations talent and eye for goal, he had no doubt. This led to a whole series of club swings; while he was by the mid -1990s, always such a thing as " the right man in the wrong place ."
In Paris he was ( most likely as " Stinksocke " translate ) abused soon after his obligation of disappointed hardcore fans in corruption of his name as Bas -de- laine, and PSG has repeated throughout his multi-year contract to get rid of tries and other clubs borrowed.
This Grave Laine has also played at some of the most respected names in the French association football:
- FC Nantes ( to 1988 )
- Pau FC (1988-1989)
- AS Saint -Seurin (1989-1990)
- Stade Lavallois (1990-1991)
- SM Caen (1991-1993)
- Paris SG (1993-1994)
- Racing Strasbourg (1994-1995)
- Re: Paris SG (July- November 1995)
- EA Guingamp (1995-1996)
- Olympique Marseille (1996-1998)
- Re: Paris SG (briefly in 1998 )
- Montpellier HSC (1998)
- Re: Paris SG ( December 1998-1999)
- Watford, England (briefly in 1999 )
- Le Havre AC (briefly in 2000 )
- AS Monaco (2000-2001)
- SM Caen (2001-2002)
- AC Ajaccio ( briefly up to July 2002)
- FC Istres ( February 2003-2004)
- FC Sion, Switzerland (briefly in 2004 )
He was with Paris Saint- Germain in 1994 French Football Champion and stood with Strasbourg in 1995 in the Cup final.
After the active time
After the end of his career Grave Laine tried as manager: FC acquired by him in January 2005 Istres rose in the summer of the same year from the top division from; Although it would probably be even more experienced soccer instructors do not have fared better with this team - but somehow also fit this episode into the picture of the hapless man.
Then Xavier Grave Laine worked as co- commentator for football on television. In June 2007, the interim president of the Erstligaabsteigers FC Nantes appointed him to his athletic advisors. After a new presidential candidate has been proposed that activity ended after 47 days. From July 2008 to May 2010 he worked as sports director at En Avant Guingamp; in this function Grave Laine was involved in the Cup victory of the second division in 2009.
The National Players
Xavier Grave Laine denied in 1992 and 1993 four matches (no scoring ) in the Équipe Tricolore. Again, he came just in time in the game, France, for two consecutive World Cup finals (1990 and 1994) had been unable to qualify and also at the European Championship in 1992 no trees avulsion ( withdraws after the first round ).