Career
Rocheteau began his professional career with AS Saint-Étienne, when they were the most successful and popular football team in France. He was a sinuous and incisive outside right who was nicknamed l"Ange Vert ("The Green Angel"). Injured, he played only the last eight minutes of the 1976 European Cup Final, which Saint-Étienne lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich.
In 1987 he was transferred to Toulouse Football Club, for whom he played two seasons before retiring in 1989.
Asked in 2012 about his most memorable football moment, Rocheteau cited his 112th-minute decisive goal against Kiev in the 1976 Champions League quarter-finals. He was injury prone. Rocheteau played two matches and scored once in Argentina 1978, where France were eliminated in the group stage.
Four years later in Spain, he played four matches and scored twice. He started for France in their semi-final defeat against West Germany, and was still on the field for the penalty shooutout, successfully converting his kick.
In Mexico 1986, Rocheteau scored only one goal but made four assists.
He played four matches, including the quarter-finals against Brazil, but was injured during extra-time and missed the penalty shootout and the semi-finals. After his retirement, Rocheteau shortly became a sports agent, working for David Ginola and Reynald Pedros. In 2002, he became head of the National Ethics Committee of the French Football Federation.
He joined the Saint-Étienne staff in 2010, and has since held various management positions in the club
Away from football, Rocheteau has been noted for his far left views, and has been associated with the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire and Lutte Ouvrière. In 1995, he played a supporting fictionnal character in Maurice Pialat"s film Le Garçu, starring Gérard Depardieu.
He has appeared in a few other movies, television shows and commercials.