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1980 In France
Events from the year 1980 in France. Incumbents * President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing * Prime Minister: Raymond Barre Events *January – End of Renault 16 production after 15 years. The R16 was the first official production hatchback car in the world when it was launched in 1965. *February – Launch of the Renault Fuego sporting coupe, which replaces the Renault 15 and Renault 17 ranges. Births January to March *1 January – Jennifer Lauret, actress. *2 January – Jérôme Pineau, cyclist. *9 January – Arnaud Méla, rugby union player. *14 January – Guillaume Norbert, soccer player. *17 January – Jean-Daniel Padovani, soccer player. *23 January – Éric Berthou, cyclist. *27 January – Pascal Pédemonte, soccer player. *2 February – Florent Balmont, soccer player. *6 February – Ludovic Delporte, soccer player. *10 February – Sylvain Marchal, soccer player. *14 February – Frédéric Belaubre, athlete. *20 February – Imanol Harinordoquy, rugby union p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980
Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In Saudi Arabia, 63 Islamist insurgents are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979. * January 14 – Indira Gandhi returns to power as Prime Minister of India. * January 20 – At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at Sincelejo, Colombia. * January 21 – The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever of $843 per troy ounce ($2,249.50 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation). * January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow. * January 26 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. * January 27 – Canadian Caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Norbert
Guillaume Norbert (born 14 October 1980) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Norbert featured during his career for FC Lorient, US Créteil-Lusitanos, Angers, Nantes and Le Havre. He is the head coach of Racing Club de France Football. Personal life His brother, Ludwig, has also played professional football. Honours FC Lorient Coupe de France finalist: 2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ... References External links 1980 births Living people People from Châtenay-Malabry French footballers FC Lorient players US Créteil-Lusitanos players Angers SCO players FC Nantes players Le Havre AC players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Association football midfielders Footballers from Hauts-de-Seine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Moullec
Guillaume Moullec (born March 7, 1980 in Brest) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder or right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s .... References * * 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Brest, France French footballers Association football defenders Association football midfielders FC Lorient players Montpellier HSC players FC Nantes players Clermont Foot players USJA Carquefou players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Footballers from Brittany Brittany international footballers {{France-footy-defender-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djimi Traoré
Djimi Traoré (born 1 March 1980) is a former professional footballer and was an assistant coach for Seattle Sounders FC. He played as a left back or centre back. Born in France, Traoré was a member of the Malian national team and at club level, he played for Laval, Liverpool – with whom he won multiple honours including the 2004–05 Champions League – Lens, Charlton Athletic, Portsmouth, Rennes, Birmingham City, Monaco, Marseille, and Seattle. Club career Liverpool Traoré started his career at home club Laval before moving on to Liverpool. He spent the 2003–04 season, Houllier's last at the club, in the reserve team, of which he was captain, and almost left Liverpool for their Merseyside neighbours Everton on the 2004 transfer deadline day but remained at Liverpool. He scored his first and what turned out to be his only Liverpool goal during this season, in the UEFA Cup against FC Steaua București. Traoré's career appeared to have been revitalised by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Berson
Mathieu Berson (born 23 February 1980) is a French former footballer who until 2013 played as a midfielder. Berson played for Nantes, Aston Villa, Auxerre, Levante, Toulouse, and Vannes. Career Berson began his career with Nantes and made his senior debut during the 1999–2000 season, going on to start in the victorious 2000 Coupe de France Final. The following campaign, Nantes were crowned champions of France for the eight time, with Berson making 29 league appearances. He also played as Nantes won the 2001 Trophée des Champions. Having featured for the club consistently over a four-year period, he was transferred to Premier League club Aston Villa in the summer of 2004. In January 2005, Villa signed Eric Djemba-Djemba in an attempt to replicate the successful partnership they had formed at Nantes, where they played 50 games together. However, six months later, Berson was back in France, having joined Auxerre on a season-long loan. In the summer of 2006, he was transferred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering. For the purposes of this article, foot orienteering serves as a point of departure for discussion of all other variations, but almost any sport that involves racing against a clock and requires navigation with a map is a type of orienteering. Orienteering is included in the programs of world sporting events including the World Games (see Orienteering at the World Games) and World Police and Fire Games. History The history of orienteering begins in the late 19th century in Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Renard
Damien Renard (born 20 February 1980) is a French orienteering competitor. He has received silver medals with the French relay team in both world championships and European championships. He won Swedish middle-distance championship in 2005. He competed at the 2005 World Orienteering Championships in Aichi, where he finished 12th in the ''middle distance'', and received a silver medal in ''relay'' with the French team.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on 23 June 2008) He received a silver medal in the ''relay event'' at the 2006 in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imanol Harinordoquy
Imanol Harinordoquy, . (born 20 February 1980) is a French former rugby union player. He typically played as a number 8 for Stade Toulousain at club level in the Top 14 and for France internationally. Before signing with Biarritz ahead of the 2004–05 season, he played club rugby at Pau. Harinordoquy won two Top 14 titles (2005, 2006), five Six Nations victories (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010), which included three Grand Slams (2002, 2004, 2010) and the 2012 Amlin Cup. He has also lost 2 Heineken Cup finals, in 2006 and 2010. Early life A Basque-speaking native of Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Harinordoquy grew up in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port ( eu, Donibane Garazi). He grew up playing many sports, among them pelota, swimming, football and judo. Harinordoquy began concentrating on the sport of rugby following a knee injury at the age of 14, which limited his football development. He began his career playing for US Nafarroa and quickly advanced in the sport. While excelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Belaubre
Fred (Frédéric) Belaubre (born 14 February 1980 in Poissy), is a French professional triathlete. He was the European Champion of the years 2005, 2006, and 2008, the French Champion of the years 2007 and 2010. Belaubre took part in two Olympic Games, placing 5th in Athens (2004) and 10th in Beijing (2008). Sports career Fred Belaubre lives in St. Raphael and is part of the nearby high performance centrCREPS PACAin Boulouris, to which he was admitted in 1996. Since 2009, as in the years 2006–2007, his coach has been Pierre Houseaux, the head of the triathlon section of the ''Pôle Boulouris''. In France, Fred Belaubre represents the club Beauvais Triathlon, for which he could win the silver medal in the prestigious Club Championship Series ''Lyonnaise des Eaux'' in 2009. In 2010, Belaubre also represented EJOT in the German ''Bundesliga'' circuit. In 2011, when his French club Beauvais will boycott the French Club Championship series ''Lyonnaise des Eaux'', he will again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Marchal
Sylvain Marchal (born 10 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career Marchal began his career at FC Metz, making his Ligue 1 debut on 10 March 1999 in the 0–0 draw at AS Monaco. It was in the latter half of the 2001–02 season that he established himself as a regular in the Metz lineup, but fell out of favour by August 2004, when he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux. A year later he returned to Metz to start in the first two matches of the 2005–06 season, but then transferred to FC Lorient in Ligue 2. Lorient won promotion with him in the team, and he was a regular for them in the opening months of 2006–07 in Ligue 1. On 17 June 2010, Marchal joined Saint-Étienne until 30 June 2013. On 27 July 2012, he signed a two-year contract with the Corsican club Bastia. Only a season later, he left the Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Delporte
Ludovic Delporte (born 6 February 1980) is a French retired footballer who played as a left midfielder. Having played professionally in Spain (nine years, mainly with Osasuna) and in his own country (four), his later career was blighted by injuries. Club career Delporte was born in Sainte-Catherine, Pas-de-Calais. After an unassuming three-and-a-half-year spell at RC Lens which included a loan to Ligue 2 club Stade Lavallois, he moved, in January 2002, to Spanish Segunda División team Racing de Ferrol – still on loan – helping Albacete Balompié to achieve top-flight promotion the following season.¿Qué fue de Ludovic Delporte?: 'el Beckham' de la Mancha (What happened to Ludovic Delporte?: 'Beckham' of la Mancha) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florent Balmont
Florent Balmont (born 2 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Balmont began his career at Olympique Lyonnais in the 2002–03 Ligue 1 season after coming through the junior ranks. In the 2003–04 season, Balmont was sent out on loan to Toulouse FC making a total of 35 appearances. After returning from loan, Balmont signed with OGC Nice. In his time with Lyon, Balmont won the 2002–03 championship and the 2004 Trophée des Champions, converting his penalty in the latter after the match went to a shoot-out. Balmont spent four seasons at Nice making 139 appearances before signing with Lille OSC. Balmont won an historic double with the club during the 2010–11 season, making 39 appearances across all competitions as Lille won the Ligue 1 title and the Coupe de France trophy. In July 2017, Balmont announced he had left Lille to join Dijon FCO, newly promoted to Ligue 1, on a two-year contract. On 11 May 2019, Balmont m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
