Xavier Collin — Wikipedia
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Xavier Collin is a footballer then French coach, born on in Charmes (France).
Evolving to the post of lateral defender, he began his professional career at SAS Épinal during the rise in division 2 of the club in 1995. After two seasons at this level, he leaves the Vosges is becoming an amateur for a season at the Poitevin FC stadium. Engaged in 1998 by Amiens SC, there was only one season there before being transferred to FC Gueugnon. After three seasons in Division 2 and a victory in the final of the League Cup in 2000, he signed at AC Ajaccio where he left six seasons and knew the descent in Ligue 2 in 2006. In 2008 he joined the Montpellier Hérault Sport Club and knows the rise in Ligue 1 from its first season in Hérault. THE , he put an end to his career after fifteen seasons at the highest level of hexagonal football.
His retraining is immediate, since he takes in hand from the following season AS Béziers which plays in the French amateur championship to replace Stéphane Crucet.
Xavier Collin has a major title to his record, the victory in the League Cup obtained in 2000 with FC Gueugnon while it evolves in Division 2.
Youth [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Xavier Collin was born in Charmes in the Vosges on .
Evolving at the post of defender, he underwent training at the Spinalian athletic stadium of which he joined the sports section [Ref. necessary] .
He joined the first team of SAS Épinal in the 1994-1995 season while the club’s pennant team evolves in National 1.
Player [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
During the seventeen seasons that marked the course of Xavier Collin, he will have played in six different clubs on the three highest levels of French football.
Its beginnings in the Vosges [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Holder upon arrival in the first team, evidenced by his thirty-one games played during his first season at this level, he will participate in the title of national 1 champion of his training club and will sign his first professional contract during The following season with SAS Épinal [Ref. necessary] .
However, after two seasons in division 2 where he will play more than thirty games, he will know the descent with the Vosges team and decides to go to Poitou-Charentes [Ref. necessary] .
The return to amateurism [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Arrived at the Poitevin FC stadium in 1997, when the club plays in the very recently created national championship, it will only play a few championship and cup games [Ref. necessary] .
In addition, the administrative demotion of the Poitevin club at the end of the season will precipitate its departure and its return to division 2 [Ref. necessary] .
Recognition in Ligue 2 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
In the 1998-1999 season, he joined Amiens SC which plays in Division 2, where he played eighteen championship games and three cups. Little used, however, by René Marsiglia, he left the sum at the end of the season for FC Gueugnon [Ref. necessary] .
He arrives at FC Gueugnon then a resident of Division 2, where he will win the only major title of his career. Indeed, FC Gueugnon will win the final of the 2000 League Cup against Paris Saint-Germain which then plays in division 1 on the score of two goals to zero. This is his first professional goal in official competition during the quarter -final of this same competition against RC Strasbourg [ first ] .
The following two seasons see the participation in the UEFA Cup 2000-2001. After two seasons as a club holder, he is spotted by a division 1 club and left Burgundy in 2002 [Ref. necessary] .
Ligue 1 and relegation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
During the summer of 2002, he reached the highest level of French football by signing at AC Ajaccio which then evolves in the brand new Ligue 1 [Ref. necessary] .
He plays for six seasons in Corsica by participating in the vast majority of the matches of his team becoming captain of it [Ref. necessary] . During his visit to Corse-du-Sud, he knew the descent to Ligue 2 during the 2005-2006 season. After six years in the service of AC Ajaccio, he decided to join his former coach Rolland Courbis in Hérault [Ref. necessary] .
The rise and the end of his career [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
He signed at Montpellier HSc during the summer of 2008 for a two -year contract [Ref. necessary] .
After a first season as a holder on the left side and a climb to Ligue 1 with Pailladins teammates, He pays the price [evasive] The change of coach, René Girard taking the place of Rolland Courbis who had brought him, and from the arrival of Cyril Jeunechamp, much more used to Ligue 1.
After three seasons in Hérault, he decided to retire during the 2010-2011 season [Ref. necessary] . He will still have participated in the climb of the club in Ligue 1 as well as the good first season of the latter in the elite, allowing him to make a second appearance in C3 in his career [Ref. necessary] .
His coach career [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The , the leaders of the future Sports Béziers announce that Xavier Collin becomes the new coach of the club thus succeeding Stéphane Crucet [ 2 ] , [ 3 ] .
He evolves for his first season as a coach with AS Béziers in CFA since the club, after not having succeeded in maintaining itself during the 2010-2011 CFA season [ 4 ] , was drafted following the administrative demances of other clubs [ 5 ] . Under its orders, the club obtains the rise in National in 2015 [ 6 ] .
In , while the club is seventeenth of the championship, it is removed from its functions [ 7 ] . He finds the SAS Épinal on By integrating the staff [ 8 ] .
As a player [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Xavier Collin is a defender of SAS Épinal to leave his first season while the club was crowned national vice-champion in 1995. However, after a relegation and lightning passages at the Poitevin FC stadium and at Amiens SC, it is not that at FC Gueugnon that he found a holder’s place and won the League Cup in 2000 against Paris Saint-Germain.
He then spent six seasons at AC Ajaccio, then after a relegation in Ligue 2, he relaunched his career at Montpellier Hérault SC with whom he ended Vice-Champion of Ligue 2 in 2009. Barred by the arrival of Cyril Jeunechamp and by The rise of young Pailladins, he decided to end his career in the summer of 2011.
As a coach [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
He took charge of AS Béziers from the season following his end of career.
| Season | Club | Championship | National cuts | Continental cuts | Others | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Matches | IN | N | D | Bp | Bc | Matches | IN | N | D | Bp | Bc | Type | Matches | IN | N | D | Bp | Bc | Type | Matches | IN | N | D | Bp | Bc | ||
| 2011 – 2012 | AS Béziers |  |
34 | ten | ten | 14 | 39 | 50 | 3 | 2 | first | 0 | 8 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2012 – 2013 | AS Béziers | |
28 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 35 | 32 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Last update
- Buts by Xavier Collin
- Xavier Collin becomes coach
- The new ASB coach is known
- Momes, Beziers AND St-PriceVé Brothers EN CFE2
- Erwann Penland, ‘ Chasselay, Mantes, Lille and Béziers saved in CFA » , on http://www.foot-national.com/ ,
- ‘ Xavier Collin at the foot of the large world » , on www.vosgesmatin.fr , (consulted the )
- Erwann Penland, ‘ Béziers: Xavier Collin removed from his functions » , on www.foot-national.com , (consulted the )
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