Top 1000: the best players in the French championship (360-351)
Who is the best player in the history of the French championship since its creation in 1932 until 2022? Statistics, records, personal trajectories, class, draws, imprint left: so many criteria that have enabled us to establish our very subjective ranking of the thousand most outstanding players in Division 1 and Ligue 1. The creed of a soap opera that goes last exactly 100 days.
Claude Barret
Auxerre(1981-1990), Nancy (1990-1992)
Claude Barret and AJA, it’s a long and beautiful story. Versatile left-back, emblematic captain of Auxerre in the 80s, he led the Burgundy club to the first D1 podium in its history (1983-1984) and to the discovery of the European Cup (in 1984, with a quarter of C3 , during a decade when his team stabilized in the first half of the table of the championship (fourth in 1984-1985 and 1986-1987, fifth in 1988-1989). part of Michel Hidalgo’s group for Euro 1984 finally won by the Blues. He will sign in Nancy at the end of his career, to experience the fight for maintenance from the inside. Assessment after his last complicated year on the side of Marcel-Picot 322 appearances in the elite, for seven small achievements.
Jacques Delepaut
CO Roubaix-Tourcoing (1947-1955) and Lille (1955-56 and 1957-59)
It is a time that those under 60 cannot know. Unless they opened the history books or surfed Wikipedia in their spare time. In this case, they know very well that a few years ago the Roubaix-Tourcoing Olympic Club was a team that counted in Division 1, even winning the 1947 edition, the club’s second in the elite. after its creation in 1945 from a union between RC Roubaix, Excelsior AC and US Tourcoing. If the idyll does not last long (10 years in Division 1 then a loss of pro status in 1963), it will have been rich in emotions and talented players. Among them, Jacques Delepaut who is probably the player who best represents CORT since he was born in Tourcoing, died in Roubaix and played 8 seasons with the club of which he will forever remain the most capped player with 249 contested matches. So yes, he could have stayed at the club when the latter was relegated to…