Reynald Pedros

Reynald Pedros

Personal information
Full name	Reynald Pedros
Date of birth	October 10, 1971 (1971-10-10)
Place of birth	Orléans, France
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1986–1996	FC Nantes	152	(22)
1996	Olympique de Marseille	21	(1)
1997	AC Parma	4	(0)
1997	S.S.C. Napoli	3	(0)
1997–1998	Olympique Lyonnais	15	(2)
1998–1999	AC Parma	1	(0)
1999–2000	Montpellier HSC	3	(0)
2000–2001	Toulouse FC	8	(1)
2001–2003	SC Bastia	15	(0)
2004–2006	Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize	?	(?)
2006–2007	Bouchemaine La Baule-Escoublac	?	(?)
2007–2008	FC Baulmes	222	(26)
National team
1993–1996	France	25	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Reynald Pedros (born October 10, 1971 in Orléans, France) is a retired French footballer of Portuguese descent.

Career

Pedros is a left-footed attacking midfielder, formed in Nantes. He was part of the magic trio of FC Nantes with Patrice Loko and Nicolas Ouédec. He formerly plays for Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize, a club in CFA2.

Pedros is not a talkative player, but is known for speaking out wisely when things are not moving in the correct direction for him.

He won the Ligue 1 with Nantes in 1995. The following year he reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.

International

His career bears some similarity to David Ginola's – a horrible mistake in the last World Cup '94 qualifying game leading to French elimination, and subsequently being dropped from the national side.

Before Euro 96, he was considered one of the best French midfielders, on par with Zinedine Zidane.

However, the Euro 96 semi-final, against the Czech Republic, came to a draw. The game went through extra time, and into a penalty shootout. After 5 successful penalties for each team, Pedros was to take the first of the penalties in sudden death. His shot was weak and slow, and was easily saved by the Czech goalkeeper, Petr Kouba. Miroslav Kadlec came to take the next penalty, scored it, and knocked France out of the tournament.

Following this elimination, Pedros was made a pariah by the media and was greatly disliked by French fans. He attempted to make a comeback, in Ligue 2, but he was never able to come back to the top of his game.

External links

• Reynald Pedros at National-Football-Teams.com
• FFF profile (French)
• L'Equipe profile (French)
• Reynald Pedros French league stats at LFP.fr (French)