Bernard Bureau (born 25 January 1959) is a French former professional
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugb ...
who played as a
forward.
Club career
Bureau is a youth graduate of AS Chelles. At age 19, a couple of months before joining
Paris Saint-Germain in 1978, he was preparing for a culinary arts (CAP).
In three seasons with PSG, he would make a total of 46 appearances and score 11 goals in all competitions.
He continued his career at
Brest,
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the No ...
,
Matra Racing,
Nancy, and
Reims
Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne.
Founded b ...
.
At the end of his career, Bureau had made 304 league appearances and scored 64 goals, playing 10 of his 13 professional seasons in the
Division 1, and the other 3 in the
Division 2.
International career
From 1983 to 1984, Bureau played for the
France Olympic team.
He would make a total of three appearances.
Style of play
Bureau was described as a "racy" forward. He was an excellent header of the ball.
After football
In 1991, Bureau retired from football; he subsequently went to live in the area of
Nantes
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.
He started a car cleaning company, and invested his capital in a night club called "Le Quai West". However, he would go back to one of his former passions,
catering
Catering is the business of providing food service at a remote site or a site such as a hotel, hospital, pub, aircraft, cruise ship, park, festival, filming location or film studio.
History of catering
The earliest account of major servi ...
, in a restaurant in
Nantes
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called “Aux délices de la pomme de terre”, before investing in real estate and apartment renovation in the
Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population ...
.
Honours
Nancy
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Division 2:
1989–90
Notes
References
External links
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1959 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oise
French footballers
Association football forwards
Olympic footballers of France
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
Stade Brestois 29 players
Lille OSC players
Racing Club de France Football players
AS Nancy Lorraine players
Stade de Reims players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Footballers from Hauts-de-France