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1980 In France
Events from the year 1980 in France. Incumbents * President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing * Prime Minister: Raymond Barre Events *January – End of Renault 16 production after 15 years. The R16 was the first official production hatchback car in the world when it was launched in 1965. *February – Launch of the Renault Fuego sporting coupe, which replaces the Renault 15 and Renault 17 ranges. Births January to March *1 January – Jennifer Lauret, actress. *2 January – Jérôme Pineau, cyclist. *9 January – Arnaud Méla, rugby union player. *14 January – Guillaume Norbert, soccer player. *17 January – Jean-Daniel Padovani, soccer player. *23 January – Éric Berthou, cyclist. *27 January – Pascal Pédemonte, soccer player. *2 February – Florent Balmont, soccer player. *6 February – Ludovic Delporte, soccer player. *10 February – Sylvain Marchal, soccer player. *14 February – Frédéric Belaubre, athlete. *20 February – Imanol Harinordoquy, ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980
Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time Epoch (computing), epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In Saudi Arabia, 63 Islamist insurgents are beheaded for their part in the Grand Mosque seizure, siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979. * January 14 – Indian National Congress, Congress (I) party leader, Indira Gandhi returns to power as the Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister of India. * January 20 – At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at Sincelejo, Colombia. * January 21 – The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever of $843 per troy ounce ($2,249.50 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation). * January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow. * Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Daniel Padovani
Jean-Daniel Padovani (born 17 January 1980) is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At the end of the 2007–08 season, he received the " Etoile d'Or du meilleur gardien de Ligue 2" (Gold star for the best Ligue 2 goalkeeper) from the magazine France Football. Padovani was part of the Comoros national football team coaching team during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. Padovani is part of the Mali national football team The Mali national football team ( Bambara: '' Mali jamana ntolatantɔn'', ) represents Mali in men's international football and is governed by the Malian Football Federation. The team's nickname is Les Aigles. They represent the country at tou ... coaching team during the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Padovani, Jean-Daniel 1980 births Living people French sportspeople of Italian descent French men's footballers FC Martigues players FC Rouen players OGC Nice players AS Cannes players Anger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Érik Boisse
Érik Boisse (born 13 March 1980, in Clichy) is a French épée fencer. He is the son of Philippe Boisse. Boisse won the gold medal in the épée team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Spain in the final. He accomplished this with his teammates Ulrich Robeiri, Gauthier Grumier, and Fabrice Jeannet. Achievements : 2006 World Fencing Championships The 2006 World Fencing Championships were held at the Oval Lingotto in Turin, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, ..., team épée References External links * * * * 1980 births Living people French male épée fencers Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics ESCP Business School alumni 21st-century Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Moullec
Guillaume Moullec (born March 7, 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder or right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categ .... References * 1980 births Living people Footballers from Brest, France French men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders FC Lorient players Montpellier HSC players FC Nantes players Clermont Foot players USJA Carquefou players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Brittany men's international footballers 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djimi Traoré
Djimi Traoré (born 1 March 1980) is a former professional footballer who works as a coach for the Right to Dream Academy. He played as a left-back or centre-back. Born in France, Traoré played for Mali, and at club level, he played for Laval, Liverpool – with whom he won multiple honours including the 2004–05 Champions League – Lens, Charlton Athletic, Portsmouth, Rennes, Birmingham City, Monaco, Marseille and Seattle. Club career Liverpool Traoré started his career at home club Laval before moving on to Liverpool. He made his debut for the Reds on 14 September 1999 in a 5–1 win over Hull City in the League Cup. In the 2001–02 season, Traoré was loaned to Lens for the season, during which he made 19 appearances. He returned to Anfield for the 2002–03 season, scoring his first (and what turned out to be his only) Liverpool goal in the UEFA Cup against Steaua București. Traoré spent the 2003–04 season, manager Gérard Houllier's last at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Berson
Mathieu Michel Berson (born 23 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Berson played for Nantes, Aston Villa, Auxerre, Levante, Toulouse, and Vannes before retiring in 2013. He was a member of the successful Nantes side that won the Coupe de France in 1999 and 2000, followed by the Division 1 title in 2001, and the Trophée des Champions in 2002. Berson played youth football for France, playing a key role in their run to the final of the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship where they lost on penalties to Czechia's U21 side. Career Berson began his career with Nantes and made his senior debut during the 1999–2000 season, going on to start in the victorious 2000 Coupe de France Final. The following campaign, Nantes were crowned champions of France for the eight time, with Berson making 29 league appearances. He also played as Nantes won the 2001 Trophée des Champions. Having featured for the club consistently over a four-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find Control point (orienteering), control points. Originally a training exercise in Land navigation (military), land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering. For the purposes of this article, foot orienteering serves as a point of departure for discussion of all other variations, but almost any sport that involves racing against a clock and requires navigation with a map is a type of orienteering. Orienteering is included in the programs of world sporting events including the World Games (see Orienteering at the World Games) and World Police and Fire Games. History The history of ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Renard
Damien Renard (born 20 February 1980) is a French orienteering competitor. He has received silver medals with the French relay team in both world championships and European championships. He won Swedish middle-distance championship in 2005. He competed at the 2005 World Orienteering Championships in Aichi, where he finished 12th in the ''middle distance'', and received a silver medal in ''relay'' with the French team.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on 23 June 2008) He received a silver medal in the ''relay event'' at the 2006 in |
Imanol Harinordoquy
Imanol Harinordoquy (born 20 February 1980) is a French former rugby union player. He typically played as a number 8 for Stade Toulousain at club level in the Top 14 and for France internationally. Before signing with Biarritz ahead of the 2004–05 season, he played club rugby at Pau. Harinordoquy won two Top 14 titles (2005, 2006), five Six Nations victories (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010), which included three Grand Slams (2002, 2004, 2010) and the 2012 Amlin Cup. He has also lost 2 Heineken Cup finals, in 2006 and 2010. Early life A Basque-speaking native of Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Harinordoquy grew up in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (). He grew up playing many sports, among them pelota, swimming, football and judo. Harinordoquy began concentrating on the sport of rugby following a knee injury at the age of 14, which limited his football development. He began his career playing for US Nafarroa and quickly advanced in the sport. While excelling at Nafarroa and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Belaubre
Fred (Frédéric) Belaubre (born 14 February 1980 in Poissy Poissy () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Inhabitan ...), is a French professional triathlete. He was the European Champion of the years 2005, 2006, and 2008, the French Champion of the years 2007 and 2010. Belaubre took part in two Olympic Games, placing 5th in Athens (2004) and 10th in Beijing (2008). Sports career Fred Belaubre lives in St. Raphael and is part of the nearby high performance centrCREPS PACA in Boulouris, to which he was admitted in 1996. Since 2009, as in the years 2006–2007, his coach has been Pierre Houseaux, the head of the triathlon section of the ''Pôle Boulouris''. In France, Fred Belaubre represents the club Beauvais Triathlon, for which he could win the silver medal in the prestigious Club Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Marchal
Sylvain Marchal (born 10 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career Marchal began his career at FC Metz, making his Ligue 1 debut on 10 March 1999 in the 0–0 draw at AS Monaco. It was in the latter half of the 2001–02 season that he established himself as a regular in the Metz lineup, but fell out of favour by August 2004, when he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux. A year later he returned to Metz to start in the first two matches of the 2005–06 season, but then transferred to FC Lorient in Ligue 2. Lorient won promotion with him in the team, and he was a regular for them in the opening months of 2006–07 in Ligue 1. On 17 June 2010, Marchal joined Saint-Étienne until 30 June 2013. On 27 July 2012, he signed a two-year contract with the Corsican club Bastia. Only a season later, he left the Ligue 1 Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Delporte
Ludovic Delporte (born 6 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Having played professionally in Spain (nine years, mainly with Osasuna) and in his own country (four), his later career was blighted by injuries. Career Delporte was born in Sainte-Catherine, Pas-de-Calais. After an unassuming three-and-a-half-year spell at RC Lens which included a loan to Ligue 2 club Stade Lavallois, he moved, in January 2002, to Spanish Segunda División team Racing de Ferrol – still on loan – helping Albacete Balompié to achieve top-flight promotion the following season.¿Qué fue de Ludovic Delporte?: 'el Beckham' de la Mancha (What happened to Ludovic Delporte?: 'Beckham' of la Mancha)< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
