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PASSING
SHIPS
FC
Nantes
have
earned
their
place
in
French
football
history.
The
club
was
founded
in
1943
in
the
middle
of
the
Second
World
War,
and
it
wasn’t
long
before
they
were
successful.
Just
22
years
after
the
foundation
of
the
club
they
won
their
first
league
title,
a
triumph
achieved
under
the
guidance
of
coach
José
Arribas.
With
Arribas
in
charge,
Nantes
won
two
further
league
titles
(1966
and
1973)
and
the
League
Cup
(1965).
They
also
developed
a
crowd-pleasing
game
that
would
become
known
as
le
jeu
à
la
nantaise
(the
Nantes
style
of
play).
This
club
from
the
Atlantic
coast
charmed
French
football
with
their
attacking
strategy
built
on
a
quick,
short-passing
game
and
great
mobility.
During
the
1980s
and
’90s
the
coaches
Jean-Claude
Suaudeau
and
Raynald
Denoueix
further
developed
this
playing
style,
which
was
reminiscent
of
Barcelona’s
‘tiki-taka’.
In
spite
of
the
flattering
comparisons
with
Barcelona,
FC
Nantes’
story
is
not
always
a
happy
one.
In
1992
the
club
was
forced
into
a
restructuring
process
because
of
its
financial
problems.
They
managed
to
get
over
this
quite
quickly,
going
on
to
win
the
league
title
in
1995.
They
secured
another
league
title
in
2001
(their
eighth),
but
Nantes
did
not
manage
to
build
on
their
successes.
Instead,
they
collapsed,
and
in
2007
they
dropped
out
of
Ligue
1
for
the
first
time.
While
struggling
with
poor
finances
and
shrinking
attendances,
Nantes,
with
their
iconic
crest,
have
managed
to
re-establish
themselves
in
the
top
tier.
CLUB:
FC
Nantes
NICKNAME:
Les
Canaris
(the
Canaries)
and
La
Maison
jaune
(the
Yellow
House)
FOUNDED:
1943
STADIUM:
La
Beaujoire
-
Louis
Fonteneau,
Nantes
(37,473
capacity)
HISTORIC
PLAYERS:
Henri
Michel,
Vahid
Halilhodžic,
Didier
Deschamps,
Claude
Makélélé
and
Mickaël
Landreau
Didier
Deschamps
played
for
FC
Nantes
between
1985
and
1989,
an
era
that
saw
the
western
France
team’s
crest
depicted
as
a
green
wave,
a
motif
taken
from
the
town’s
crest.