| Dominique Rocheteau | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dominique Rocheteau | |
| Date of birth | January 14, 1955 | |
| Place of birth | Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France | |
| Height | 177 cm | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Retired | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| La Rochelle Etaules |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1972–80 1980–87 1987–89 |
AS Saint-Étienne Paris SG Toulouse FC Total |
153 (51) 204 (83) 60 (11) 417 (145) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1975–86 | France | 49 (15) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Dominique Rocheteau (born January 14, 1955 in Saintes, Charente-Maritime) is a former football striker from France, who is currently the head of the National Commission of Ethics of the French Football Association. Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Saintes may refer to the following places Saintes Belgium Saintes Charente-Maritime, a commune of France in the Charente-Maritime department Charente-Maritime is a department on the west coast of France named after the Charente River. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
Rocheteau began his professional career with AS Saint-Étienne, when they were the most successful and popular football team in France. Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire, ( ASSE or AS Saint-Étienne) are a French football team founded in 1920 He was a sinuous and incisive outside right who was nicknamed the "Green Angel". He played in the 1976 European Cup Final, which St. Etienne lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich. FC Bayern München is a German Sports club based in Munich, Bavaria (München Bayern He won three French championships (1974-1976) and one French cup (1977) with St. Etienne. He transferred to Paris St. Germain in 1980 with whom he won once more the French championship (1986) and two more French cups (1982-1983). Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, or PSG, is a French football club based in Paris. In 1987 he was transferred to Toulouse FC, for whom he played two seasons before retiring in 1989. Toulouse Football Club is a French football team playing in the city of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne. With the French National Team Rocheteau won 49 caps from 1975-1986 and scored 15 goals. The French national football team represents the nation of France in international football. He played in the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cup Finals and was part of the team that won the European Championship in 1984 (though Rocheteau missed the final due to injury). The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football The 1984 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in France. He also played for the French Olympic Football team which won the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal.
Away from football Rochetau has been noted for his far left views, and has been assocaited with the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire and the Lutte Ouvrière. Ultra-left|Radical left|Radicalism (historical|Hard left Far left and extreme left are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within a Political spectrum The Revolutionary Communist League ( Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) (LCR is a French democratic Revolutionary socialist Political party Workers' Struggle ( Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union ( Union Communiste) (Trotskyist a French Trotskyist [1]