Yannick Plissonneau 2004, led them to promotion to the Division d'Honneur in 2008, and left during the 2008–09 season. Yannick Plissonneau Yannick Plissonneau (born 28 March 1956 in Pornic, Loire-Atlantique) is a French former football player and manager. As player, Plissonneau was a defender who played in Division 2 for Amicale de Lucé and US Orléans. With the latter club, he played in the 1980 Coupe de France Final against AS Monaco, and made the cross which led to Roger Marette's equalising goal, but Monaco won the match 3–1. As manager, he led Luçon to the last 32 of the 2001–02 Coupe
Tweener (tennis) version was called the "Gran Willy"), Yannick Noah, Ilie Nastase, Gabriela Sabatini (whose version became known as "the Sabatweenie"), Roger Federer, Juan Martín del Potro, Nick Kyrgios, Daria Kasatkina, Agnieszka Radwańska and Simona Halep. The origin of the backward shot is unclear; both Argentine Guillermo Vilas and French player Yannick Noah claim to have invented it. Both players used it somewhat regularly in the 1970s. Vilas was inspired by an advertisement where a polo player hit a backwards shot between his horse's hind legs. He debuted his version in a 1974 exhibition match at the courts of Obras Sanitarias Club