Aimé Jacquet
Jacquet in 2005
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Aimé Étienne Jacquet | ||
| Date of birth | 27 November 1941 | ||
| Place of birth | Sail-sous-Couzan, France | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing 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) | |
| National team | |||
| 1968 | France | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1976–1980 | Lyon | ||
| 1980–1989 | Bordeaux | ||
| 1989–1990 | Montpellier | ||
| 1990–1991 | Nancy | ||
| 1993–1998 | France | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Aimé Étienne Jacquet (French pronunciation: [e.me ʒa.kɛ]; born 27 November 1941) is a retired French football coach and former player. He was manager of the France national football team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
He was born in Sail-sous-Couzan, Loire. He began his career as an amateur player for his local club, US Couzan, while working in a factory. Scouted by Saint-Étienne, he joined Les Verts in 1960. One of the most successful clubs of the time, Saint-Étienne, won an impressive five league titles and three French Cups in his 11 years with the club. He also played for the national side, but his international career failed to take off because Les Bleus performed poorly during his years on the team. In 1973, he left Saint-Étienne for bitter regional rivals Olympique Lyonnais, where he ended his career as a player.
Jacquet worked as a manager for clubs around France and gained an impressive list of accolades for Bordeaux during the 1980s, leading them to three league titles, two French Cups, two European semi-finals and one-quarter-final. Dismissed by President Claude Bez in 1989, he left Bordeaux to his managerial skills with more modest teams like Montpellier and Nancy.
In 1991, he accepted a position with the National Technical Training Centre (Direction Technique Nationale).
In 1992, he was appointed the assistant to then national team manager Gérard Houllier.
After the French national team was knocked out of the running for the 1994 FIFA World Cup by Israel and Bulgaria, Jacquet was made the manager of the national team, but only provisionally. After a promising series of friendly matches (notably a victory over Italy in Naples in February 1994), his provisional status was upgraded to permanent.
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