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{{Short description|French footballer (born 1955)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Maxime Bossis
| image = 1978_FIFA_World_Cup_-_Italy_v_France_-_Maxime_Bossis.jpg
| upright = 0.8
| caption = Bossis playing for [[France national football team|France]] at the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]] 
| full_name = Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.verif.com/en/leaders/Maxime-BOSSIS-2985954/ |title=Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis |website=Verif |publisher=Altares-D&B |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|6|26|df=y}}<ref name="Lequipe">{{cite news |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur11311.html |title=Maxime Bossis |newspaper=L'Équipe |location=Paris |access-date=21 April 2025 |language=fr}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Saint-André-Treize-Voies]], Vendée, France
| height = 1.86 m<ref name="Lequipe"/>
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]<ref name="Lequipe"/>
| currentclub = 
| youthyears1 = 1969–1970
| youthclubs1 = Saint-André Sport
| youthyears2 = 1970–1973
| youthclubs2 = FC Yonnais
| years1 = 1973–1985
| clubs1 = [[FC Nantes|Nantes]]
| caps1 = 379
| goals1 = 24
| years2 = 1985–1989
| clubs2 = [[Racing Club de France Colombes 92|RC Paris]]
| caps2 = 120
| goals2 = 2
| years3 = 1990–1991
| clubs3 = [[FC Nantes|Nantes]]
| caps3 = 34
| goals3 = 0
| totalcaps = 533
| totalgoals = 26
| nationalyears1 = 1976–1986
| nationalteam1 = [[France national football team|France]]
| nationalcaps1 = 76<ref>{{cite web|title=Maxime Bossis: International Matches|website=[[RSSSF]]|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/bossis-intl.html|access-date=30 December 2013}}</ref>
| nationalgoals1 = 1
| manageryears1 = 1996
| managerclubs1 = [[AS Saint-Étienne|Saint-Étienne]]
| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{fb|FRA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIFA World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|3rd|[[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship]]}}
{{Medal|Winner|[[UEFA Euro 1984|1984]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[1985 Artemio Franchi Cup|1985]]|}}
}}
'''Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis''' ({{IPA|fr|maksim ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl bɔsis}}; born 26 June 1955) is a French retired professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[defender (association football)|defender]].

Bossis spent most of his career playing for [[FC Nantes|Nantes]], a club he helped win three [[Ligue 1]] titles and one [[Coupe de France]]. He obtained 76 caps (one goal) for the France national team, won [[UEFA Euro 1984]], and played in two [[FIFA World Cup]] semi-finals.

==Early life and club career==
Bossis was born in [[Saint-André-Treize-Voies]], Vendée.<ref name="Lequipe"/> A longtime starter for [[FC Nantes]] during the club's most successful period during the 1970s and 1980s,<ref>FCNantes.com. [http://www.fcnantes.com/club/champions.php "Les équipes championnes du FC Nantes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170706/http://www.fcnantes.com/club/champions.php |date=3 March 2016 }}. Retrieved on 5 July 2014.</ref> he was noted chiefly as a [[Defender (association football)#Full-back|full-back]] on the left flank, but filled in at various roles in defence. Bossis spent much of his time at right back during Nantes' championship-winning seasons in 1977 and 1980, in which [[Thierry Tusseau]] normally started on the left, but made the left back position his own beginning in 1981. Bossis helped Nantes to finish first or second in every season between 1976 and 1981. The club added a third title in 1983, finishing ten points ahead of second-place [[Girondins Bordeaux]]. In 1985, Bossis moved to the ambitious [[Racing Club de France Colombes 92|RC Paris]], but the Parisian club achieved only modest success in spite of heavy spending that acquired such players as [[Enzo Francescoli]] and [[Pierre Littbarski]]. Bossis returned to Nantes for one final season in 1990, lining up next to future French international [[Marcel Desailly]] before retiring from play.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Bossis was named Footballer of the Year by [[France Football]] in 1979 and 1981.<ref name="France - Footballer of the Year">Garin, Erik & Pierrend, Jose Luis. [https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/franpoy.html "France - Footballer of the Year"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905115225/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/franpoy.html |date=5 September 2015 }}. ''[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|RSSSF]]'', 19 December 2013. Retrieved on 5 July 2014.</ref>

==International career==
Bossis also represented the [[France national football team|France national team]] for ten years, appearing at the [[1978 FIFA World Cup|1978]], [[1982 FIFA World Cup|1982]], and [[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986]] [[FIFA World Cup]]s, reaching the semifinals of the latter two editions of the tournament.<ref>[[FIFA]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140716155548/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=174423/ "FIFA Player Statistics: Maxime BOSSIS"]. Retrieved on 5 July 2014.</ref> He is mostly remembered for missing France's last penalty in the 1982 World Cup semi-final against [[Germany national football team|West Germany]]. While the score was tied at 4–4, Bossis missed the next penalty, allowing [[Horst Hrubesch]] to score the last penalty and send the Germans to the final. Bossis was also an important member of the France team that won [[UEFA Euro 1984]] on home soil in 1984. From 1985 to 1992, he held the French record of caps, before fellow defender [[Manuel Amoros]] established a new mark with 82 caps. He also held the French record of matches played in the World Cup with 15, which was subsequently surpassed by [[Fabien Barthez]] in 2006.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

== Personal life ==
Bossis' younger brother, [[Joël Bossis|Joël]], also played professional football and holds the all-time record for most goals scored for [[Chamois Niortais F.C.|Chamois Niortais]].{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

== After retirement ==
After he retired in 1991, Bossis briefly embraced a career as a football executive, heading the [[Coupe de France]] Central Commission (1993–1995) before he joined [[AS Saint-Étienne|Saint-Étienne]] as sporting director (1996–1997).<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|url=http://www.footengo.fr/L-entretien-FOOTENGO-Maxime-BOSSIS-Revenir-a-Nantes-Pourquoi-pas_a255.html |title=L'entretien Footengo - Maxime Bossis : "Revenir à Nantes ? Pourquoi pas..."|publisher=footengo.fr |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> He then reinvented himself as a TV commentator, working first for [[Télévision Par Satellite|TPS]], then for [[Orange S.A.|Orange Sport]] and since 2014 for [[BeIn Sport]].<ref>{{cite news|language=fr |url=http://www.nantes.maville.com/sport/detail_-maxime-bossis-j-espere-voir-du-spectacle-en-ligue-1-_37933-2610373_actu.Htm |title=Maxime Bossis : " J'espère voir du spectacle en Ligue 1 "|newspaper=[[Ouest France]]|date=1 September 2014|access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref>

== Honours ==
'''Nantes'''
*[[Ligue 1|Division 1]]: [[1976–77 French Division 1|1976–77]], [[1979–80 French Division 1|1979–80]], [[1982–83 French Division 1|1982–83]]{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
*[[Coupe de France]]: [[1978–79 Coupe de France|1978–79]]{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

'''France'''
*[[UEFA European Championship]]: [[UEFA Euro 1984|1984]]{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
*[[Artemio Franchi Trophy]]: [[Artemio Franchi Trophy#1985|1985]]{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
*[[FIFA World Cup]] third place: [[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986]]; fourth place: [[1982 FIFA World Cup|1982]]{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

'''Individual'''
*[[French Player of the Year]]: 1979, 1981<ref name="France - Footballer of the Year"/>
*[[Onze d'Or|Onze Mondial]]: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985<ref>{{Cite web|title="Onze Mondial" Awards|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/onze-awards.html|access-date=2021-12-17|website=[[RSSSF]]|archive-date=4 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704020132/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/onze-awards.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[World Soccer (magazine)#Eric Batty's World XI|World XI]]:1984, 1986<ref name="BTLM80s">{{cite web |url=https://beyondthelastman.com/2014/03/10/eric-battys-world-xis-the-eighties-and-nineties/ |website=Beyond The Last Man |date=10 March 2014 |title=Eric Batty's World XI's – The Eighties and Nineties |access-date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=31 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131120633/https://beyondthelastman.com/2014/03/10/eric-battys-world-xis-the-eighties-and-nineties/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== References ==
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