Benoît Cauet

Benoît Cauet

Personal information
Date of birth	(1969-05-02) 2 May 1969
Place of birth	Châtellerault, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1990	Marseille	33	(1)
1990–1994	Caen	144	(8)
1994–1996	Nantes	56	(4)
1996–1997	Paris Saint-Germain	35	(4)
1997–2001	Inter Milan	147	(7)
2001–2002	Torino	16	(1)
2002–2003	Como	31	(0)
2003–2004	Bastia	32	(2)
2004–2005	CSKA Sofia	15	(0)
2005–2006	Sion	15	(1)
Total		524	(28)
Managerial career
2011–2016	Inter Milan (youth)
2016–2018	Inter Milan (scout)
2019–2020	Concarneau
2021	Châteauroux
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Benoît Cauet (born 2 May 1969) is a French professional football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder.

Playing career

Cauet was born in Châtellerault. He won the Ligue 1 in 1989 and 1990 with Marseille and in 1995 with Nantes. He also won the Coupe de France in 1989 with Marseille and the UEFA Cup in 1998 with Inter Milan, as well as the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group in 2005 with CSKA Sofia. He appeared in the 1998 UEFA Cup Final as a substitute. In spite of his qualities as a player, he was never called up to the France national team at international level.

Style of play

Cauet was a strong, dynamic, tenacious, and hard-working two-way midfielder, with a solid technique, who was known for his combative playing style and movement off the ball, as well as his ability to link-up with other midfielders and start attacking plays. Usually a defensive or central midfielder, he was regarded for his tactical intelligence and qualities as a ball-winner, although he was also capable of playing on the left flank, as well as in a more offensive midfield role.

Coaching career

Inter Milan

Cauet worked as a coach in Inter Milan's youth system from 2011 to 2016. He would also become a scout there from 2016 to 2018.

Concarneau

From 2019 to 2020, Cauet worked as manager of Concarneau.

Châteauroux

Cauet was briefly Châteauroux manager from 1 January to 9 March 2021. With the club facing relegation, he replaced Nicolas Usaï in the role, but was sacked following the purchase of La Berichonne by Saudi prince Abdullah bin Musa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his United World Group.

Honours

Marseille

• Ligue 1: 1988–89, 1989–90
• Coupe de France: 1988–89

Nantes

• Ligue 1: 1994–95

Inter Milan

• UEFA Cup: 1997–98

CSKA Sofia

• Bulgarian A Group: 2004–05

Individual

• Pirata d'Oro (Internazionale Player Of The Year): 1999

External links

•  Benoît Cauet at L'Équipe Football (in French)
• (in Italian) TuttoCalciatori.net
• Benoît Cauet at pari-et-gagne.com