Bernard Bureau

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Bernard Bureau
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Bureau with RC Paris [a] in 1987
Personal information
Date of birth (1959-01-25) 25 January 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Lagny, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward [1]
Youth career
0000–1978 AS Chelles
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1981 Paris Saint-Germain 43 (11)
1981–1983 Brest 71 (16)
1983–1986 Lille 97 (24)
1986–1988 Matra Racing [a] 32 (1)
1988–1990 Nancy 58 (12)
1990–1991 Reims 13 (0)
Total304(64)
International career
1983–1984 France Olympic 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bernard Bureau (born 25 January 1959) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Contents

Club career

Bureau is a youth graduate of AS Chelles. At age 19, a couple of months before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 1978, he was preparing for a culinary arts certificat d'aptitude professionnelle  [ fr ] (CAP). [2] In three seasons with PSG, he would make a total of 46 appearances and score 11 goals in all competitions. [3] He continued his career at Brest, Lille, Matra Racing, [a] Nancy, and Reims. [3] At the end of his career, Bureau had made 304 league appearances and scored 64 goals, playing 10 of his 13 professional seasons in the Division 1, and the other 3 in the Division 2.[ citation needed ]

International career

From 1983 to 1984, Bureau played for the France Olympic team. [4] He would make a total of three appearances.[ citation needed ]

Style of play

Bureau was described as a "racy" forward. He was an excellent header of the ball. [2]

After football

In 1991, Bureau retired from football; he subsequently went to live in the area of Nantes. [2] He started a car cleaning company, and invested his capital in a night club called "Le Quai West". However, he would go back to one of his former passions, catering, in a restaurant in Nantes called “Aux délices de la pomme de terre”, before investing in real estate and apartment renovation in the Loire-Atlantique. [2]

Honours

Nancy

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 In 1987, RC Paris was renamed to Matra Racing.

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References

  1. ↑ "Bernard BUREAU". PSG1970.net (in French). Retrieved 5 April 2021.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Bureau Bernard". Paris.canal-historique (in French). 2 February 2013. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Bernard BUREAU". Histoire du PSG (in French). 27 May 2017. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Bernard BUREAU". PSG70 (in French). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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