Full name Dominique Rocheteau Years Team Name Dominique Rocheteau Height 1.77 m | Current team Retired 1972–1980 Saint-Etienne Role Football player Spouse Laurence Rocheteau | |
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Date of birth (1955-01-14) 14 January 1955 (age 60) Place of birth Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France Profiles | ||
France's World Cup 'Angel'
Dominique Rocheteau ([dominik ʁoʃəto]; born 14 January 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.
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Rocheteau began his professional career with AS Saint-Etienne, when they were the most successful and popular football team in France. He was a sinuous and incisive outside right who was nicknamed the "Green Angel". Injured, he played only the last eight minutes of the 1976 European Cup Final, which St. Etienne lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich. 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). In 1987 he was transferred to Toulouse FC, for whom he played two seasons before retiring in 1989. With the French National Team Rocheteau won 49 caps from 1975–1986 and scored 15 goals. He played in 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.
Away from football, Rocheteau has been noted for his far left views, and has been associated with the Ligue communiste revolutionnaire and the Lutte Ouvriere.[1]
