Philippe Gondet , born the May 17th 1942 with Blois (Loir-et-Cher), is old a Football French international professional or.

Biography

Gondet begins football with a.A.J from Blois, then joined Paris to follow its studies. It tries young person the professional adventure with the French Stade but goes back to Blois in front of its difficulty of adapting to Parisian life. FC Nantes comes to unearth there and starts again its career. Gondet is selected in team of France military junior then, with which it marks in particular four goals against the England in the Kentish Challenge. It carries out part of sound Military service in Algérie where it contracts an infection with the Amibe S which the doctors put of time to detect, which slows down its return under the Nantes colors in 1964-65. It will mark only three goals at the time of this season which sees the Canaris taking down their first championship.

The following year, it is the bursting within an irresistible Nantes team which gains its second consecutive title. Gondet marks goal on goal and becomes the best striker of the history of Division 1 with 36 achievements. Its regularity such as is accustomed Southern platform of the Stade Marcel-Saupin take the practice to howl it from now on celebrates “Gondet, your goal! ” when the Canaris trample in front of their public. The interested party seldom misses obtempérer in a sometimes spectacular style, as testify to it Jean-Philippe Réthacker and Jacques Thibert in their work the fabulous history to football (O.D.I.L.): “One of its larger matches, it carries it out on October 20th, 1965, against the Red Star, at the Marcel-Saupin stage. In a dazzling form, it makes a success of all that it undertakes and plays manner of a big boss of English or Hungarian attack. It draws a dozen from time at the unfavourable goal and, each time, the balloon is " cadré" , putting Dantheny at the torment. It marks four goals but could have personally marked of them six or Nantes Sept. gains this match by 7 goals with 2. ”

Such a course naturally propels Gondet towards the team of France. The national sport selector Henri Guerin convenes it for the first time for a capital match of eliminating heats of the World cup to Paris vis-a-vis the Yugoslavia, on October 9th, 1965. Initially envisaged like reserve, Gondet must replace with the foot raised the holder Yvon Douis, wounded, and marks of a splendid shooting of twenty meters the single goal of a victory (1-0) which qualifies the Bleus for the final stage in England. Gondet settles with the point of the tricolor attack but cannot avoid a disappointing elimination with the first tower of the World cup.

Thereafter, and in spite of the fall of mode of Nantes, Gondet remains one accustomed of the national selection until very serious wounds with the two knees undergone at the end of 1967 do not move away it from the grounds for more than two years. Gondet returns in the foreground in spring 1970, contributing inter alia qualifying Nantes for the final of the Coupe de France (lost 0-5 vis-a-vis Saint-Etienne). It finds the team of France on September 5th, 1970 in friendly match vis-a-vis the Czechoslovakia (3-0), marking even a goal there, but definitively leaves it a month later after a last selection (demolished 1-0) vis-a-vis the Austria. In fall of form and under the push of a new generation in Nantes, Gondet leaves to the intersaison 1971 for Paris and the Red Star, then takes the way of Caen later one year where it carries out a last season without convincing. Gondet puts a term at its professional path in 1973 and leaves the world of football definitively.

Clubs

• 19?? - 61: AAJ Blois

• 1961-63:
• 1963-71:
• 1971-72: Paris-Joinville
• 1972-73:
• 1973-74:

Prize list

• Champion of France 1965 and 1966 with FC Nantes

• Finalist of the Coupe de France in 1966 and 1970
• Better striker of the Championship of France (1966: 36 goals) with FC Nantes
• 14 selections in team of France of 1965 to 1970 (7 goals)

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