Gaëtan Huard (born 12 January 1962) is a French former professional

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who played as a

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Football career

Born in

Montargis Montargis () is a commune in the Loiret department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Montargis is the seventh most populous commune in the Loiret, after Orléans and its suburbs. It is near a large forest, and contains light industry and farming, ...

Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434.< ...

, Huard played 357 Ligue 1 matches for

RC Lens Racing Club de Lens (, commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply Lens) is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, ''les sang et or'' (''the blood and gold''), co ...

, FC Girondins de Bordeaux and Olympique de Marseille, winning the

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and 1990 Division 1 championships with the latter. During the 1992–93 season with Bordeaux (which would finish third in the 1992–93 French Division 1 final standings), he enjoyed a run of 1,176 minutes (stretching between matchday 17 and 31 of the Division 1 campaign) of Division 1 football without conceding a goal. He helped Bordeaux win the

1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup The 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the first edition of the tournament administered by the UEFA. It saw Strasbourg and Bordeaux win their semi-finals to advance to the UEFA Cup, the latter eventually finishing runners-up. It also saw English repres ...

. Huard helped Bordeaux reach the 1996

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, where they lost to FC Bayern Munich. The 34-year-old had a brief stint in Spain. He played for Hércules CF during the 1996–97 season, serving as a backup goalkeeper. They were relegated from the

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men' ...

after finishing second-bottom in the table at the conclusion of the

1996–97 La Liga The 1996–97 La Liga season, the 66th since its establishment, started on 31 August 1996 and finished on 23 June 1997. Promotion and relegation Teams promoted from 1995–96 Segunda División * Hércules * Logroñés * Extremadura Teams rele ...

season, after which Huard retired from playing professional football. Afterwards, Huard worked several years as a sports consultant for

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References

External links

Racing Lens archives
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Huard, Gaetan 1962 births Living people People from Montargis Sportspeople from Loiret French footballers Association football goalkeepers Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players RC Lens players Olympique de Marseille players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players La Liga players Hércules CF players French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Spain Footballers from Centre-Val de Loire