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| Full name | Aimé Étienne Jacquet[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1941-11-27)27 November 1941 (age 83)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sail-sous-Couzan, Loire, France | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1958–1960 | Sail-sous-Couzan | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1960–1973 | Saint-Étienne | 192 | (23) | |||||||||||
| 1973–1975 | Lyon | 22 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Total | 214 | (25) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1968 | France | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1980 | Lyon | |||||||||||||
| 1980–1989 | Bordeaux | |||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Montpellier | |||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Nancy | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | France (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 1993–1998 | France | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Aimé Étienne Jacquet (French pronunciation:[emeʒakɛ]; born 27 November 1941) is a French former professionalfootball player andmanager. He coached theFrance national team that won the1998 FIFA World Cup in France, the country's first title.
Jacquet was born inSail-sous-Couzan, Loire.[2] He began his career as an amateur player for his local club, US Couzan, while working in a factory. Scouted bySaint-Étienne, he joinedLes Verts in 1960. One of the most successful clubs of the time, Saint-Étienne, won an impressive fiveleague titles and threeFrench Cups in his 11 years with the club. He also played for the national side, but his international career failed to take off becauseLes Bleus performed poorly during his years on the team. In 1973, he left Saint-Étienne for regional rivalsOlympique Lyonnais, where he ended his career as a player.[citation needed]
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Jacquet worked as a manager for clubs around France and gained an impressive list of accolades forBordeaux during the 1980s, leading them to three league titles, two French Cups, two European semi-finals and one-quarter-final. Dismissed by PresidentClaude Bez in 1989, he left Bordeaux tohone his managerial skills with more modest teams likeMontpellier,[3] andNancy.[4][5][6][7]
In 1991, he accepted a position with the National Technical Department (DTN, Direction Technique Nationale).[8][9][10]
In 1992, he was appointed the assistant to then national team managerGérard Houllier.[9]
After the France national team was knocked out ofqualifying for the1994 FIFA World Cup byIsrael andBulgaria, Jacquet was made the manager of the national team, but only provisionally.[11] After a promising series of friendly matches including a victory overItaly, his provisional status was upgraded to permanent.[citation needed]
Jacquet initially selectedEric Cantona as captain and made him the team's playmaker. Cantona had successfully restarted his career in theFA Premier League and was playing some of the best football of his career, but he kicked a Crystal Palace fan in January 1995, which earned him a year-long suspension from all international matches.[12][13]
As Cantona was the key playmaker, Jacquet was forced to make major changes to the team in the wake of his suspension. Jacquet revamped the squad with some new blood and built it aroundZinedine Zidane and other younger players while dropping Cantona,Jean-Pierre Papin, andDavid Ginola. Jacquet succeeded in helping France qualify for theEuro 96.[14][15][16]
Making it all the way to the semi-finals,Les Bleus managed to show they could survive without veterans such as Papin, Cantona, or Ginola. Jacquet himself stated that the team had done well without Cantona, and that he wanted to keep faith with the players who had taken them so far.[17]
In the months that followed theEuro 96, Jacquet honed his team's skills in a series of friendly matches. He adopted a very defensive strategy. The press began to criticize the team manager, calling his methods "paleolithic".[citation needed][citation needed]
In June 1997 atLe Tournoi, cries of "Resign!" could be heard from the stadium as the French team finished third behindEngland andBrazil, only coming out ahead ofItaly by virtue of goal difference. The press continued to criticize Jacquet.[citation needed]
The media's distrust of Jacquet reached fever pitch in May 1998 when, instead of a list of 22 players meant to play in the World Cup, Jacquet gave a list of 28 players, causing the sports dailyL'Équipe to write an editorial arguing that Jacquet was not the right man to lead the French team to victory.[citation needed]
However, all that changed when the team began to play in the play-off rounds for the1998 FIFA World Cup. It was clear that though Jacquet's team was far from being the most flamboyant in French history, it was a perfectly well-oiled machine that neither injury, nor expulsions, nor suspensions, managed to stop. On 12 July 1998, France soundly beatBrazil 3–0 in theFinal. Key to the victory was when Jacquet pointed out to his players that Brazilian marking at set-pieces was somewhat suspect, and Zidane headed two goals in from corner kicks.[18]
Following the victory, Jacquet announced that he was leaving his position as manager of the France national team due to previous pressures and criticisms against him.[19] He then became technical director of French football in August 1998, a position which he held until his retirement in December 2006.[20]
| Club | Season | League | Coupe de France | Continental | Other[n 1] | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Saint-Étienne | 1960–61 | Division 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 1 | ||
| 1961–62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1962–63 | Division 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1963–64 | Division 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 1964–65 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 1965–66 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 2 | ||||
| 1966–67 | 36 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 38 | 5 | ||||
| 1967–68 | 35 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 4 | ||
| 1968–69 | 31 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 3 | ||
| 1969–70 | 23 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 5 | ||
| 1970–71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1971–72 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 1 | |||
| 1972–73 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 33 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 192 | 23 | 27 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 232 | 26 | ||
| Lyon | 1973–74 | Division 1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 |
| 1974–75 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | |||
| Total | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 214 | 25 | 28 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 259 | 29 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1968 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | |
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||||
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| Lyon | February 1976 | July 1980 | 183 | 65 | 42 | 76 | 035.52 | ||
| Bordeaux | July 1980 | February 1989 | 422 | 219 | 115 | 88 | 051.90 | ||
| Montpellier | July 1989 | February 1990 | 25 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 028.00 | ||
| Nancy | July 1990 | July 1991 | 40 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 030.00 | ||
| France | 17 December 1993 | 29 July 1998 | 53 | 34 | 16 | 3 | 064.15 | ||
| Total | 723 | 337 | 189 | 197 | 046.61 | ||||
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