Hervé Revelli

Hervé Revelli
	Revelli in 1968
Personal information
Date of birth	5 May 1946 (age 77)
Place of birth	Verdun, Meuse, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Gardanne
Senior career*
Years	Team
1964–1971	Saint-Étienne
1971–1973	Nice
1973–1978	Saint-Étienne
1978–1980	Chênois
1980–1983	Châteauroux
1983–1985	Draguignan
National team
1966–1975	France
Teams managed
1979–1980	Chênois (player-manager)
1980–1983	Châteauroux (player-manager)
1983–1984	Draguignan (player-manager)
1986–1987	CS Sfaxien
1987–1989	Château-Thierry
1989	Mauritius
1989–1993	Saint-Priest
1998	CA Bizertin
2003	MC Oran
2003–2004	MC Alger
2004	Benin
2005	ES Sétif
2007–2008	Toulouse Fontaines (director of sports)
2009–2011	US Feurs
2018	Lyon-Décines
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hervé Revelli (born 5 May 1946) is a French former footballer who played as a forward. He is well–known for having won the French Championship a joint–record seven times.^[a]

Career

Revelli scored 31 Ligue 1 goals during the calendar year of 1969. Fifty years later in 2019, Kylian Mbappé became the first French player to score at least 30 goals in a calendar year in Ligue 1 since Revelli's feat.^[2]

Revelli is the joint-top scorer in the Derby Rhône-Alpes between Saint-Étienne and Lyon with 14 goals along with former Lyon player Fleury Di Nallo.^[3] He finished his career in SC Draguignan, having already started a career as playing manager.^[4]

In addition to Switzerland and France, he managed in Tunisia and Algeria as well as the national teams of Mauritius and Benin.^[4]

Personal life

He is the brother of former professional footballer, Patrick Revelli.^[5]

Honours

Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1: 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76
Coupe de France: 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1976–77

Notes

^ The other players are Revelli's Saint-Étienne teammate Jean-Michel Larqué, Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti of Paris Saint–Germain, and Grégory Coupet, Juninho and Sidney Govou of Lyon.^[1]

References

^ "Thiago Silva and Verratti in seventh heaven". Ligue 1. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
^ "Mbappé is the first French player to Score 30 Ligue 1 Goals in Calendar Year in 50 Years". PSG Talk. 21 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^ "The Men of the Derby". Olympique Lyonnais. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b Footballdatabase
^ Tyers, Alan (12 December 2016). "AS Saint-Étienne scouting report: all you need to know about Manchester United's Europa League opponents". The Daily Telegraph.

External links

Hervé Revelli at L'Équipe Football (in French)
Hervé Revelli at the French Football Federation (in French)
Hervé Revelli at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)
news.bbc.co.uk

[2] The other players are Revelli's Saint-Étienne teammate Jean-Michel Larqué, Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti of Paris Saint–Germain, and Grégory Coupet, Juninho and Sidney Govou of Lyon.^[1]

[seventh_heaven-1] "Thiago Silva and Verratti in seventh heaven". Ligue 1. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.

[3] "Mbappé is the first French player to Score 30 Ligue 1 Goals in Calendar Year in 50 Years". PSG Talk. 21 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

[4] "The Men of the Derby". Olympique Lyonnais. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

[fdb-5] Footballdatabase

[6] Tyers, Alan (12 December 2016). "AS Saint-Étienne scouting report: all you need to know about Manchester United's Europa League opponents". The Daily Telegraph.

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