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 Bossis playing forFrance at the1978 FIFA World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1955-06-26)26 June 1955 (age 70)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Saint-André-Treize-Voies, Vendée, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Saint-André Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1973 | FC Yonnais | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1985 | Nantes | 379 | (24) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1989 | RC Paris | 120 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Nantes | 34 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 533 | (26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1986 | France | 76[3] | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Saint-Étienne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis (French pronunciation:[maksimʒɑ̃maʁsɛlbɔsis]; born 26 June 1955) is a French retired professionalfootballer who played as adefender.
Bossis spent most of his career playing forNantes, a club he helped win threeLigue 1 titles and oneCoupe de France. He obtained 76 caps (one goal) for the France national team, wonUEFA Euro 1984, and played in twoFIFA World Cup semi-finals.
Bossis was born inSaint-André-Treize-Voies, Vendée.[2] A longtime starter forFC Nantes during the club's most successful period during the 1970s and 1980s,[4] he was noted chiefly as afull-back on the left flank, but filled in at various roles in defence. Bossis spent much of his time at right back during Nantes' championship-winning seasons in 1977 and 1980, in whichThierry Tusseau normally started on the left, but made the left back position his own beginning in 1981. Bossis helped Nantes to finish first or second in every season between 1976 and 1981. The club added a third title in 1983, finishing ten points ahead of second-placeGirondins Bordeaux. In 1985, Bossis moved to the ambitiousRC Paris, but the Parisian club achieved only modest success in spite of heavy spending that acquired such players asEnzo Francescoli andPierre Littbarski. Bossis returned to Nantes for one final season in 1990, lining up next to future French internationalMarcel Desailly before retiring from play.[citation needed]
Bossis was named Footballer of the Year byFrance Football in 1979 and 1981.[5]
Bossis also represented theFrance national team for ten years, appearing at the1978,1982, and1986FIFA World Cups, reaching the semifinals of the latter two editions of the tournament.[6] He is mostly remembered for missing France's last penalty in the 1982 World Cup semi-final againstWest Germany. While the score was tied at 4–4, Bossis missed the next penalty, allowingHorst Hrubesch to score the last penalty and send the Germans to the final. Bossis was also an important member of the France team that wonUEFA Euro 1984 on home soil in 1984. From 1985 to 1992, he held the French record of caps, before fellow defenderManuel Amoros established a new mark with 82 caps. He also held the French record of matches played in the World Cup with 15, which was subsequently surpassed byFabien Barthez in 2006.[citation needed]
Bossis' younger brother,Joël, also played professional football and holds the all-time record for most goals scored forChamois Niortais.[citation needed]
After he retired in 1991, Bossis briefly embraced a career as a football executive, heading theCoupe de France Central Commission (1993–1995) before he joinedSaint-Étienne as sporting director (1996–1997).[7] He then reinvented himself as a TV commentator, working first forTPS, then forOrange Sport and since 2014 forBeIn Sport.[8]
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