Henri Biancheri (30 July 1932 – 1 December 2019) was a
French association football player and sports executive. He played
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for 14 seasons including seven at
AS Monaco FC
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club SA, commonly referred to as AS Monaco () or Monaco, is a professional football club based in Monaco that is member of French Football Federation (FFF) and competes in Ligue 1, the top tier of Fre ...
where he was a member of two
Ligue 1
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championship squads and twice a winner of the
Coupe de France
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. He also earned two caps with the
France national team in 1960.
After he retired as a player, he became a commercial director at
Adidas
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from 1966 to 1986, and then technical director at Monaco until 2005. He left Monaco to work in recruiting for
Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club pl ...
.
[
Later in life, he became a naturalized citizen of Monaco and retired there after he left Marseille.]
References
External links
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Profile at FFF
Profile at a.s.monaco.free.fr
1932 births
2019 deaths
Footballers from Marseille
French men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
Expatriate men's footballers in Monaco
France men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Angers SCO players
AS Monaco FC players
Racing Club de France Football players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
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