Dominique Rocheteau

Dominique Rocheteau (French pronunciation: [dɔminik ʁɔʃəto]; born 14 January 1955) is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger. A French international, he played in the final tournament of three World Cups, scoring at least a goal in each of them, and was part of the team that won the European Championship in 1984. At club level, he won four Division 1 titles, three Coupes de France and played in the 1976 European Champion Clubs' Cup final.

Dominique Rocheteau
Rocheteau with Saint-Étienne in 1979
Personal information
Date of birth (1955-01-14) 14 January 1955
Place of birth Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) 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)
National team
1975–1986 France 49 (15)
Teams managed
2010–2011 Saint-Étienne (president adviser)
2011– Saint-Étienne (sporting director)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Rocheteau began his professional career with AS 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 the 1976 European Champion Clubs' Cup final, which Saint-Étienne lost 1–0 to Bayern Munich. He won three Division 1 titles (1974–1976) and one Coupe de France (1977) with Saint-Étienne. He transferred to Paris 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 to Toulouse FC, for whom he played two seasons before retiring in 1989.

Asked in 2012 about his most memorable football moment, Rocheteau cited his 107th-minute decisive goal in the second leg of the 1975-76 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-final against FC Dynamo 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 the 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup.[1]

International career

With the France national football team, Rocheteau won 49 caps from 1975–1986 and scored 15 goals. He played in final tournament of the 1978 World Cup, 1982 World Cup and 1986 World Cup and was part of the team that won the European Championship in 1984 (though Rocheteau missed the final due to injury). He was injury prone.

Rocheteau played two matches and scored once in Argentina 1978, where France were eliminated in the group stage.[2] Four years later in Spain 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 shootout.[3] In Mexico 1986, Rocheteau scored only one goal but made four assists;[4] 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.

Personal and later life

Rocheteau grew up in Étaules, Charente-Maritime where his grandfather and father ran an oyster farm. The business was later taken over by his brother Antony.[5]

After his retirement, Rocheteau shortly became a sports agent, working for David Ginola and Reynald Pedros. In 2002, he became head of the National Ethics Committee of the French Football Federation. He joined the Saint-Étienne staff in 2010, and has since held various management positions in the club.[6]

Away from football, Rocheteau has been noted for his far left views, and has been associated with the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire and Lutte Ouvrière.[7] In 1995, he played a supporting fictional character in Maurice Pialat's film Le Garçu, starring Gérard Depardieu. He has appeared in a few other movies, TV shows and commercials.[8]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[9]
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Saint-Étienne1972–73Division 12000--20
1973–744021--61
1974–754010--50
1975–76221110833114
1976–772737060403
1977–782651020295
1978–79372150--4221
1979–80311161504212
Total 1535123221319756
Paris Saint-Germain1980–81Division 1371632--4018
1981–82221086--3016
1982–83261193303814
1983–843091030349
1984–853115102334420
1985–86351971--4220
1986–872332020273
Total 204834014113255100
Toulouse1987–88Division 12664142349
1988–8934720--367
Total 601361427016
Career total 4171476917368522172

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 197530
197620
197742
197851
197920
198020
198141
198262
198363
198451
198544
198661
Total4915

Honours

Club

Saint-Étienne

Paris Saint-Germain

International

France

References

  1. "Dominique Rocheteau: "On a retrouvé des valeurs"". Le Temps (in French). 7 December 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. "Dominique Rocheteau » World Cup 1978 Argentina". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. "Dominique Rocheteau » World Cup 1982 Spain". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. "World Cup 1986 Statistics". planetworldcup.com. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. "Les huîtres Rocheteau, de belles fines de claire, arrivent dans la Loire". Le Progrès (in French). 21 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. "Rocheteau, l'ange vain" (in French). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 December 2006. Retrieved 8 November 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "L'Ange vert refait surface". Le Parisien (in French). 10 June 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  9. "Dominique Rocheteau". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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