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| Full name | Dominique Claude Rocheteau[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1955-01-14)14 January 1955 (age 71)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Saintes, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Winger | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| La Rochelle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Etaules | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1980 | Saint-Étienne | 153 | (51) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1987 | Paris Saint-Germain | 204 | (83) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Toulouse | 60 | (13) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 417 | (147) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975–1986 | France | 49 | (15) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Saint-Étienne (president adviser) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011– | Saint-Étienne (sporting director) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dominique Claude Rocheteau (born 14 January 1955) is a French former professionalfootballer who played as awinger. AFrench international, he played in threeFIFA World Cups, scoring at least one goal in each of them, and was part of the team that wonUEFA Euro 1984. At club level, he won fourDivision 1 titles, threeCoupes de France and played in the1976 European Cup Final.
Born inSaintes,Charente-Maritime,[2] Rocheteau began his professional career withAS Saint-Étienne, when they were the most successful and popular football team in France. He was a sinuous and incisive outside right who was nicknamed l'Ange Vert ("The Green Angel"). Injured, he played only the last eight minutes of the1976 European Cup Final, which Saint-Étienne lost 1–0 toBayern Munich. He won threeDivision 1 titles (1974–1976) and oneCoupe de France () with Saint-Étienne. He transferred toParis Saint-Germain in 1980 with whom he won one Division 1 title (1986) and two Coupes de France (1982–1983). In 1987, he was transferred toToulouse FC, for whom he played two seasons before retiring in 1989.[citation needed]
Asked in 2012 about his most memorable football moment, Rocheteau cited his 107th-minute decisive goal in the second leg of the1975–76 European Cup quarter-final againstDynamo Kyiv. Saint-Étienne had lost the first leg 2–0 but won the second leg 3–0 after extra-time. Dynamo Kyiv were the previous year's winners of the1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup.[3]
With theFrance national football team, Rocheteau won 49 caps from 1975 to 1986 and scored 15 goals. He played in threeFIFA World Cups, in1978,1982 and1986, and was part of the team that wonUEFA Euro 1984 (though Rocheteau missed the final due to injury).[citation needed]
Rocheteau played two matches and scored once at the 1978 World Cup, where France were eliminated in the group stage.[4] Four years later in 1982, he played four matches and scored twice. He started for France in their semi-final defeat against West Germany, and successfully converted his penalty in the shoot-out.[5] In 1986, Rocheteau scored only one goal but made four assists;[6] he played four matches, including the quarter-final against Brazil (he was injured and substituted during that match in extra-time and hence did not partake in the penalty shootout), but did not play in the semi-final against West Germany.[citation needed]
Rocheteau grew up inÉtaules, Charente-Maritime where his father and grandfather ran anoyster farm. The business was later taken over by his brother Antony.[7]
After his retirement, Rocheteau shortly became a sports agent, working forDavid Ginola andReynald Pedros. In 2002, he became head of the National Ethics Committee of theFrench Football Federation. He joined the Saint-Étienne staff in 2010, and has since held various management positions in the club.[8]
Away from football, Rocheteau has been noted for hisfar-left views, and has been associated with theLigue communiste révolutionnaire andLutte Ouvrière.[9] In 1995, he played a supporting fictional character inMaurice Pialat's filmLe Garçu, starringGérard Depardieu. He has appeared in a few other movies, TV shows and commercials.[10]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Saint-Étienne | 1972–73 | Division 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| 1973–74 | Division 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | ||
| 1974–75 | Division 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1975–76 | Division 1 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 31 | 14 | |
| 1976–77 | Division 1 | 27 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 3 | |
| 1977–78 | Division 1 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 5 | |
| 1978–79 | Division 1 | 37 | 21 | 5 | 0 | — | 42 | 21 | ||
| 1979–80 | Division 1 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 12 | |
| Total | 153 | 51 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 197 | 56 | ||
| Paris Saint-Germain | 1980–81 | Division 1 | 37 | 16 | 3 | 2 | — | 40 | 18 | |
| 1981–82 | Division 1 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 6 | — | 30 | 16 | ||
| 1982–83 | Division 1 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 14 | |
| 1983–84 | Division 1 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 9 | |
| 1984–85 | Division 1 | 31 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 44 | 20 | |
| 1985–86 | Division 1 | 35 | 19 | 7 | 1 | — | 42 | 20 | ||
| 1986–87 | Division 1 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 3 | |
| Total | 204 | 83 | 40 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 255 | 100 | ||
| Toulouse | 1987–88 | Division 1 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 9 |
| 1988–89 | Division 1 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 0 | — | 36 | 7 | ||
| Total | 60 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 70 | 16 | ||
| Career total | 417 | 147 | 69 | 17 | 36 | 8 | 522 | 172 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| France | 1975 | 3 | 0 |
| 1976 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1977 | 4 | 2 | |
| 1978 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1981 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1982 | 6 | 2 | |
| 1983 | 6 | 3 | |
| 1984 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1985 | 4 | 4 | |
| 1986 | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 49 | 15 | |
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