Laurent Blanc Biography

Laurent Robert Blanc was born in November 19, 1965, he is French former footballer and was fluent playing in Center Allebr and is the current coach of PSG.

Playing career of Laurent Blanc:

Beginnings

Blanc began his career in Montpellier sports club, where he signed his first professional contract in 1983. First he played in the center middle attacker and contributed to the club in the rise of Montpellier to the first class in the season 1986- 1987. By an Advice from Montpellier coach Michel Mezy, then Blanc agreed to drop back and play in the center of Allebr commensurate with the length of 192 cm and weight of 82 kg. He could be consistent with the style of French football; scoring 12 goals in the season due to the exploitation of distinguish length in shooting the ball by head and shot penalty. He helped the club to win the French Cup championship season of 1989- 1990, beating in the final match at the Paris Club 1-2, where Blanc scored the first goal in 103 minutes. 

Local success

In 1991, Blanc decided to leave France and go to Italy to join Napoli club which was playing in the first division. During his only season there Blanc could score 6 goals in 31 matches. he Decided then to return to his country to join Nimes club, in 1993 he moved to the club Saint-Etienne where he was able through these clubs to become one of the best defenders of the French at that time and also featured in the score where he scored a club Saint-Etienne 13 goals in season 1993-1994 on Although the club suffering from the conflict not to relegation to the second division. Blanc stayed in Saint-Etienne club because the club which wants to go to a club Marseille did not allow him to return to first-class and still suffers from financial problems.

Guy Roux expressed interest in signing him to replace Dutchman Frank Verlat, and he was able to convince him to move to Auxerre in 1995 despite staying away from stadiums because of the injury that he had. Blanc quickly returned to action and contributed to Auxerre two Serie A championships and France Cup season 1995 - 1996.

Barcelona

High- level performance presented by Blanc with Auxerre who attracted the attention of many big European clubs, but in the end Blanc decided to approve the move to Spanish club Barcelona in the second Professional experience outside France. FC Barcelona coach was Dutchman Johan Cruyff strongly wishes to contract with Blanc, but a few days before Blanc coming, Cruyff was sacked from his post. Blanc contributed to the achievement of the Super Cup by beating Atletico Madrid 6 - 4 on aggregate. In the second leg Blanc suffered injury kept him out of the start of the league championship, but he returned quickly to receive a red card in front of club AEK Athens in the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup European and then was injured in the match in the club Extremadura in the league championship, which forced him to absence from derby famous in front of Real Madrid and also absence from the final of the European Cup Winners ' Cup in front of Paris St Germain. During his first season at FC Barcelona is full of absence due to either injury or suspension and before the start of the World Cup full year he decided to leave the Camp Nou Stadium. 

Marseille:

Marseille coach Roland Corbis could to convince Blanc to return to France and to join the club. Blanc became the commander of Marseille club despite his lack of self-confidence. Blanc participated in the occupation of Marseille club finished fourth in the first division championship broke up eleven goals and was awarded the title of president. Season, which was followed by the World Cup, was a success and very bad news for Blanc and Marseille at the same time. Blanc Succeeded in the leadership of Marseille to compete for the league title first, but eventually finished second, one point ahead of Bordeaux crowned champions also Blanc contributed to qualified Marseille to the final of the UEFA Cup, but lost to Parma Italy 0 -3 where objected Argentine striker Hernan Crespo Blanc pass toward goalkeeper Stefan Burato and scored the first goal. 

Manchester United:

At the end of that season Blanc decided to leave Marseille heading to Inter Milan and he was named the best player at the club by fans for the 1999-2000 seasons. Since 1996, the Scottish Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson was trying to contract with him, but every time he failed for several reasons even he succeeded in this matter in 2001. Although that was 35 - year - old was hired to replace the Dutchman Jaap Stam signing to Italian club Lazio. 

France national team:

Blanc achieved with his country team the World Cup 1998 by winning over Brazil 3-0.

Managerial career of Laurent Blanc:

On June 8, 2007, Blanc was appointed coach of Bordeaux replacing Brazilian Ricardo Gomes. In his first season 2007-2008 Blanc was able to lead Bordeaux club to occupy second place in the championship, two points behind champion Lyon. As a result, Blanc was chosen the best coach for that season. In his second season of success he achieved a wide victory by winning   in the 3 local tournaments a Champions Cup and French League Cup and then starred in the French first division, beating Marseille 3 - point lead. In spite of these tournaments , but Blanc lost the title coach of the season in favor of the Belgian Eric Gerets of Marseille , was appointed coach of the French national team after the withdrawal of France from the first round of the 2010 World Cup. After that he signed with PSG in June 25, 2013.