Reynald Pedros

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Reynald Pedros

Full name	Reynald Pedros
Date of birth	October 10, 1971
Place of birth	Orléans, France
Height	180cm
Nickname	Trio magique
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1996 1996 1997 1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2003 2004-	FC Nantes Olympique de Marseille AC Parma Napoli Soccer Olympique Lyonnais AC Parma Montpellier HSC Toulouse FC SC Bastia Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize	152 (22) 21 (1) 4 (0) 3 (0) 15 (2) 1 (0) 3 (0) 8 (1) 15 (0)
National team
1993-1996	France	25 (4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Reynald Pedros (born October 10, 1971 in Orléans, France) is a French footballer of Portuguese descent. He 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 currently plays for Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize, a club in CFA2.

Petros 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 and the French Cup in the same year. This year also led him to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

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, knocking 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.

His career bears some similarity to David Ginola's – a horrible mistake in an international tournament leading to French elimination, and subsequently being dropped from the national side.

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(French) FFF profile
(French) L'Equipe profile

	France squad - 1996 European Football Championship Semi-finalists
1 Lama \| 2 Angloma \| 3 Di Meco \| 4 Leboeuf \| 5 Blanc \| 6 Guérin \| 7 Deschamps \| 8 Desailly \| 9 Djorkaeff \| 10 Zidane \| 11 Loko \| 12 Lizarazu \| 13 Dugarry \| 14 Lamouchi \| 15 Thuram \| 16 Barthez \| 17 Madar \| 18 Pedros \| 19 Karembeu \| 20 Roche \| 21 Martins \| 22 Martini \| Coach: Jacquet