Ligue 1 Team Of The Week: Round 4

Goal.com rounds up the best in France following another weekend of upsets in Le Championnat.

 Ligue 1 Round-Up: Lyon Stunned In Lorient, Sochaux Ease By PSG

It’s a perfect 12 from 12 for Toulouse, who will have watched gleefully as les Gones and les Parisiens stumbled once more.

 Ligue 1 Team Of The Week: Round 3

Le Championnat continues to throw up some unexpected results, though Marseille are at least on the board, while Toulouse have maintained their perfect start. Here’s the top performers from the third week of action.

 Olympique de Marseille 2-0 Lorient: Gabriel Heinze & Taye Taiwo Strike As OM Sneak The Points

Les Phoceens recorded their first win of the season thanks to a couple of goals from their full-backs.

 Ligue 1 Team Of The Week: Round 2

Another weekend of shocks in Le Championnat has brought more unheralded faces into the best XI reckoning.

 Ligue 1 Round-Up: Auxerre Held In Brest, Saint-Etienne Survive Sochaux Surge, Rennes Cruise

A breathtaking evening of Championnat football so more than a few thrills and spills, as Sainte nearly blew a three goal lead, while AJA struck late to deny SB29 three points.

 Ligue 1 Team of the Week: Round 1

It wasn’t a good start to the season for any of France’s three biggest clubs in recent years, with Olympique de Marseille, Olympique Lyonnais and Girondins de Bordeaux all failing to win. Nevertheless, there were some standout heroes, with faces new and old in Goal.com’s best XI.

 Ligue 1 Round-Up: Champions Marseille Shocked By Caen, PSG Start Strongly

OM were left red-faced as they lost at home to les Malherbes, while les Parisiens recorded a resounding victory on the opening evening of action...

 World Cup 2010: Christian Gourcuff At A Loss To Explain Son Yoann’s Poor France Form

Gourcuff doesn't know what went wrong with his son in South Africa.

 

FC Lorient (also known as FC Lorient Bretagne Sud or lorient) is a professional French football club based in Lorient and competes in the highest football division of French football; Ligue 1.

FC Lorient was founded in 1926 as an amateur football club called "Football Club Lorientais" and played in national amateur leagues. FC Lorient turned professional between 1967 – 1977 and between 1988 – 1991 but it was only in 1995 when FC Lorient turned professional and remained professional since.

Prior to 1995, FC Lorient was quite successful and achieved many honours including: Champion of the National, Runners-up Division 4, Division 3 Champions, Division d'Honneur champions and Coupe de l'Ouest winners.

In 2002, FC Lorient won the French Cup and was also finalist in the Coupe de la Ligue of the same year. FC lorient finished in the 3rd place in Ligue 2 and achieved promotion to Ligue 1 in the same year.

In the following 2006/07 season, FC Lorient finished the season in the 14th place of the first division. In both 2007/08 and 2008/09 season, FC Lorient finished in the 10th place. The team kept improving and finished the 2009/10 season in the 7th place.