Name: Yves Chauveau
Nickname: Tonton; Le gardien volant (the flying goalkeeper)



Country: France
Club: Olympique Lyon
Position: *GK
Side: RF/BS
Age: 23-28 years (14/04/1945)

Height: 178 cm
Weight: 75 kg


Attack: 30
Defence: 84
Balance: 78
Stamina: 62
Top Speed: 72
Acceleration: 73
Response: 88
Agility: 78
Dribble Accuracy: 52
Dribble Speed: 53
Short Pass Accuracy: 60
Short Pass Speed: 62
Long Pass Accuracy: 63
Long Pass Speed: 63
Shot Accuracy: 42
Shot Power: 78
Shot Technique: 44
Free Kick Accuracy: 45
Curling: 48
Header: 56
Jump: 88
Technique: 54
Aggression: 65
Mentality: 82
Goalkeeper Skills: 85
Team Work: 75

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 4
Weak Foot Frequency: 4
Consistency: 5
Growth Type: Standard/Lasting

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Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Defence Minded


INFO:
An agile and spectacular goalkeeper, Chauveau started being recognized for his performance in the 2nd leg of round of 16 against Tottenham Hotspur where, despite the defeat four goals to three, he was to be nicknamed by the English newspapers the “flying goalkeeper”. Imperial on his line, in the air, with the foot, with the hand, with the recovery, he truly commanded his defense. However, he often misjudged the ball or was not tall enough to get a hold of the crosses.

Yves Chauveau joined Olympique Lyonnais where he became Marcel Aubour's replacement, making his first appearances in the first team during the 1964-1965 season He was loaned the following season to FC Grenoble in Division 2, where coach Albert Batteux made him his goalkeeper. Back at OL, he competed with Michel Zewulko for the starting position and played in nineteen matches in the championship, which the Lyonnais finished in 15th place. The club reached the final of the Coupe de France the same season but Michel Zewulko was preferred to play the match won three to one over FC Sochaux. He played a few days after the second half of the Champions Challenge which saw the victory of the French champions AS Saint-Étienne with the score of three goals to nil.

In 1971 Lyon finished 7th in the championship and in the Coupe de France reached the disputed final against Stade Rennes. Yves Chauveau lost on a penalty scored by his former teammate André Guy in the 63rd minute and OL were beaten one goal to zero. The following year, the Lyonnais finished fifth but and the following again reached the final of Coupe de France where they found themselves opposed to FC Nantes, winner of the championship. The Lyonnais beat the Nantes by the score of two goals to one thus winning the third French Cup in the history of the club.

After two third places in the league in the following years, Yves Chauveau left the Lyon club and joined AS Monaco for a period of three years. At the end of the season, the Monegasque club was relegated to Division 2 but managed to move up the following year by winning group A. The club then lost in the championship final against the winner of the other group, RC Strasbourg. Back in Division 1, Yves Chauveau was injured before the start of the championship and Jean-Luc Ettori, goalkeeper number two replaced him. This one is essential in the goals and at the end of the season, the Monegasques win the championship. Yves Chauveau then returned to Olympique Lyonnais, as an amateur, and regained a starting position in place of Gilles De Rocco20. He found a club with fragile finances21 which had to go through the play-offs to stay in the first division during the 1979-1980 season. OL saved their place in Division 1 by beating Olympique Avignonnais, a Division 2 club, eight goals to four over the two games22. After a good 1981 season ending in sixth place, the Lyon club moved down to Division 2 at the end of the following season. Yves Chauveau, who lost his starting place during this season to the profile of Slobodan Topalović, ended his professional career on this relegation.

Yves Chauveau was called up for the French team for the first time in 1968 by coach Louis Dugauguez. Replacing Marcel Aubour, he attended from the stands the one-and-ever draw against Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals of the European Championship. He was also retained as a substitute for the return match where the French bowed on the score from five to one. Not retained in the group the following match, he returned to the "Blues" still as a substitute, this time for Georges Carnus, on October 17. In this match played at the Stade Gerland, the French lost three goals to one against Spain. This defeat was followed by another against the Norwegian amateurs in the context of the World Cup qualifiers. This defeat led to the resignation of Louis Dugauguez and the appointment of Georges Boulogne as coach. This keeps Yves Chauveau in the France group which lost five goals to zero against England

Yves Chauveau has had his last three appearances for France in 1970. He replaced Georges Carnus in the return match against Norway, which won three goals to one and then in the two-nil defeat against Sweden which ended France's hopes of qualifying for the final stages of the World Cup. . Fifteen days later, on November 1, 1969, he was part of the France group for the last time in the return match against the Swedes. The French won with a score of three goals to nil15. The coach later preferred Jean-Michel Fouché to him.