Name: Bernard Boissier




Country: France
Club: Nîmes Olympique
Position: *SB, CB
Side: RF/BS
Age: 21-26 years (03/11/1952)

Height: 172 cm
Weight: 73 kg

Attack: 68
Defence: 81
Balance: 79
Stamina: 84
Top Speed: 78
Acceleration: 79
Response: 82
Agility: 77
Dribble Accuracy: 73
Dribble Speed: 76
Short Pass Accuracy: 73
Short Pass Speed: 72
Long Pass Accuracy: 73
Long Pass Speed: 73
Shot Accuracy: 63
Shot Power: 79
Shot Technique: 64
Free Kick Accuracy: 64
Curling: 75
Header: 73
Jump: 78
Technique: 74
Aggression: 70
Mentality: 86
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 78

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Early/Lasting

CARDS:
S07 - Man Marking
S09 - Covering


SPECIAL ABILITIES: Marking - Covering

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Defense-Minded

INFO:
Bernard Boissier spent a large part of his career at Nîmes, his hometown, where he arrived in the first team at the age of twenty, during the 1972-1973 season. Very regular, he became one of the pillars of this team in the 70s, for nine seasons where it rather frequented the middle of the table. Boissier was an athletic, aggressive, tough full-back. Very effective in marking the attacker, he was also endowed with a good recovery to launch the offensives of his team. He was a spirit of bullfighting, fighting, self-giving, wetting the jersey, truly presenting coach Firoud's philosophy. For the strikers of his time, the accomplishment was to succeed in their match against Boissier, it would mean that player was a good attacker. From the beginning of his career until the injury in 1978, he was almost always in the typical team of the Championship, as Boissier was one of the best full-backs. After Raymond Domenech and Gérard Janvion, he was one of the two, three best French full-backs. The thing that handicapped was that he injured his meniscus at the wrong time in 1978. He was at the top level. A lot of clubs solicited him like Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg. If it wasn't for that injury, as Boissier said in his words, he would have left - so this injury put a brake on his career.

In 1981, Nîmes was relegated and he signed for Lyon, a team that ensured its maintenance by a narrow margin. He stayed there only one year, before ending his career with four seasons at Toulon, one in D2 and three in D1. He retired as a player at the age of 34.

In 1975, he won his only selection in A, replacing Jean-François Jodar. He touches a single ball and remains for 30 years the holder of the shortest career of the Blues, before being surpassed by the handful of seconds played by Franck Jurietti.