Ligue 1, Montpellier - Stade Rennais, Sunday at 17:00. For his team’s third match in eight days, Frédéric Antonetti decided to leave Stéphane Dalmat and Vincent Pajot to rest. Both midfielders as well as Yacine Brahimi have been left out of the eighteen-player squad which will travel to Hérault on Saturday.
Ligue 1, Stade rennais - Paris Saint-Germain, Saturday at 19:00. Frédéric Antonetti called a group of eighteen players for the reception of Paris Saint-Germain. Despite some uncertainty around the participations of Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, Tongo Hamed Doumbia and Yann M' Vila during the week, all three players seem like to hold their place on Saturday, for the second game week of the Ligue 1 season.
Born in Rennes, Jean-Luc Arribart went up the ranks at Stade Rennais all the way up to the first team. During his training, he also won the Gambardella Cup in 1973, one and a half year before the start of his professional career. Versatile, he then evolved equally at midfield or in defence, before settling at the position of centre back. Standing out in first team, Arribart becomes one of the main sports values of a club in the midst of economic turmoil. In 1978, to balance its budget, the Stade Rennais has no other choice but to transfer him, together with Patrick Delamontagne, to the Stade Lavallois. In Mayenne, he confirmed his status of good Division 1 player. And although he dropped to D2 during three years spent in Reims, he later returned to the top flight with Nancy. In 1988, after his final two professional years spent in Orléans then Laval, Arribart put an end to his player's career. He then became a TV consultant, a job in which he became one of the recognized actors. In parallel, between December 1999 and October 2000, he briefly occupied the position of technical director at the RC Lens.
Born in Rennes, it took a long time to Michel Audrain escaped before he joined the Stade Rennais. After debuting at the Cercle Paul-Bert Guinguené, he joined the SCO Angers at 17, where he made his professional debuts one year later. Convincing, he was recruited by the Girondins de Bordeaux of Aimé Jacquet in 1982. In Aquitaine, he gained two France champion titles, before being transferred to Marseille. Following a one year loan to Laval, he joined the Stade rennais in 1987. Audrain got involved in the challenges of the second division within a team freshly relegated and in full reconstruction under the management of Raymond Keruzoré . Two average seasons later, he landed in Quimper, then later in Annecy, still in D2. In 1992, he put an end to his professional career, but continued as a player-manager with Châteaubriant and then with Notre-Dame-des-Champs near Le Mans. He then went on to take on training duties, joining his former club of Angers in 1994 to take responsibilities at the Academy before managing the reserve team. He occupied relatively similar functions later in Saint-Etienne, Laval then Lorient, before becoming the assistant of Denis Troch at the Stade lavallois in 2005. Having followed the manager in Troyes, he then returned to Laval in 2008 to second Philippe Hinschberger.
A Moroccan International, Houssaine Anafal arrived at Stade rennais in 1974. In attack, he played alongside players such as Laurent Pokou or Philippe Redon, but his first season in Brittany ended with a relegation to D2, and only three goals scored. Moving back to the midfield in 1975-1976, he realised a much better season, and contributed widely to the immediate return to the top flight. But Anafal suffers from homesickness, and wants to return to Morocco. In October, 1976, his contract was cancelled and the player returned to the KAC Kénitra, his former club. A year and a half later, he eventually returned to Stade rennais, and realised an excellent 1979-1980 season, scoring no less than twelve goals. Unfortunately, the club failed to clinch promotion in the end of season in play-off, and Anafal would not play for the club any more despite the major role he had on that season. Indeed, his career with Rennes was shattered by a bad meniscus injury. In 1982, he returned to KAC Kénitra for the second time, but he would return to Brittany once again. Today, he is one of the educators at the Stade rennais football school.
Arrived in June 1998, Dominique Arribagé was forced to wait for a few weeks before making his debuts with Rennes. Controlled positive for nandrolone when he still played for Toulouse FC, he was suspended of all competitions for six months. Rehabilitated afterward, Arribagé would spend six seasons at Stade rennais FC. Previously, he had played for various clubs in Toulouse, before joining the TFC directly as a professional in 1992. A charismatic captain of Stade Rennais, gifted with excellent heading abilities (which would allow him to score some important goals in difficult moments for the club), he played close to 200 matches under the red and black colours. In 2004, the Stade Rennais let him return to Toulouse for free, in recognition for his time in Rennes. Arribagé returned to his favourite club, where he would continue playing for four other professional seasons. He since integrated the recruitment unit at Toulouse FC.
A French-Moroccan forward, Yacine Qasmi completed all his training at Paris Saint-Germain, the club where he made his debut at the age of eight. Making his way up to the reserve in Paris, he even appeared with the first team during a Europa League match in December 2010. Finally not retained by the club of the capital, the U21 Moroccan international was recruited as a free agent by Stade rennais. Qasmi reinforces the reserve team in CFA2, with the opportunity to express his qualities and target appearances in the first team.
Born in Guyana, Jean Claude Darcheville arrived in mainland France in 1995 to sign for Stade Rennais. After two initial seasons in which he barely played (four games in D1 in two years), he gained more play time in 1997-1998, before moving on loan to Nottingham Forrest. After the English club didn’t keep him, he joined the FC Lorient where he finally broke through. After two seasons with over ten goals scored, he blossomed in D1 and scored nineteen goals. Better, Darcheville played a dominating role in the excellent performances by “Les Merlus” in the cup competitions, scoring the winning goal in the Coupe de France final. While Lorient was relegated, Darcheville was logically transferred. He landed in Bordeaux where he would remain for the following five seasons, alternating the good with the less good. After he left the Girondins in 2007, he drifted from club to club, with experiences in Scotland with the Glasgow Rangers, in L1 with Valenciennes, in L2 with Nantes, or in Greece with Kavala.