Jean-Marc Guillou

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Jean-Marc Guillou

Jean-Marc Guillou (born December 20, 1945 in Bouaye , Loire-Atlantique ) is a former French football player and coach . With the football schools he founded (Académies JMG), particularly on the African continent , he is one of the promoters of systematic training for talented people there, but also one of the pioneers of a constant supply of players for European football.

Player career

In his clubs

Jean-Marc Guillou, who grew up a few kilometers southwest of Nantes , learned to play football as a child and adolescent at two small amateur clubs in Paimbœuf and Saint-Nazaire . At the age of 20, the attacking midfielder did not go to FC Nantes - he had just become French champions for the second time in a row - but to SCO Angers ; there he came in the season 1966/67 for his first use in France's highest league . After a season (1968/69) in Division 2 , he played with Angers for the championship almost every year until 1974, and the “intelligent, technically brilliant, creative playmaker ” decisively shaped the offensive direction of the SCO “with his non-conformism”. However, the team could not win the title; two fourths and one fifth in the final table were their best placements during this time. After all, Guillou even played in the UEFA Cup in 1972/73 ; In this, however, Dynamo Berlin prevailed 1: 1 and 2: 1 against SCO Angers. However, his personal performance meant that national coach Nationtefan Kovács appointed him to the circle of the French national team in 1973. At Angers, Jean-Marc Guillou was also named best player in Division 1 in 1973/74 and 1974/75 and was voted France's Footballer of the Year at the end of 1975 . The SCO Angers had a surprising table-18 in the summer of 1975. cannot avoid the descent.

Guillou then moved to OGC Nice , with whom he was runner- up a year later behind AS Saint-Étienne . In 1978, the team from the Côte d'Azur reached the final of the French Cup , in which the midfielder again failed to win the title: the Coupe de France won AS Nancy , whose decisive goal was Michel Platini , Guillou's offensive counterpart in the national team, scored. 1979 Guillou left Nice and played for two years for the Swiss national league club Xamax Neuchâtel , where in 1981 a third place jumped out in the final table. Nevertheless, Jean-Marc Guillou then went back to France, where he led the second division FC Mulhouse as a player- coach in 1982 in the first division. When the Alsatians promptly relegated from this in 1983, Guillou took one last engagement at AS Cannes and ended his playing career in 1984.

Club stations
  • Sporting Club Paimbœuf (1956–1958, as a child)
  • Sporting Club Saint-Nazaire (1958–1966, as a youth)
  • SCO Angers (1966–1975, of which 1968/69 in D2)
  • OGC Nice (1975–1979)
  • Neuchâtel Xamax (1979–1981)
  • FC Mulhouse (1981–1983, 1981/82 as player-coach in D2)
  • AS Cannes (1983/84 as player-coach in D2)

In the national team

Between March 1974 and June 1978 Jean-Marc Guillou made 19 full international appearances for France , scoring three goals. When Ștefan Kovács made his first appointment to the team of the Équipe Tricolore (September 1973, without a job), he was already relatively old for a debutante. Nevertheless, he was a regular member of the Bleus squad in the following years and was nominated by Kovács' successor Michel Hidalgo for the French squad at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina . There he was in the starting line-up in the opening game against Italy . After the 2-1 defeat, Hidalgo no longer took him into account - "not because he played badly, but I had to change some positions against Argentina " - and did not recall him later.

Guillou has also played two international matches against teams from German-speaking countries, both against the GDR on the occasion of qualifying for the 1976 European Championship . At 2-2 in November 1974, his subsequent goal to 2-1 brought the French back into the game, but eleven months later in the Leipzig Central Stadium he was unable to prevent the French 2-1 defeat.

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1976
  • French cup finalist: 1978
  • Winner of the Étoile d'Or as the season's best player in the league: 1973/74, 1974/75
  • France's Footballer of the Year: 1975
  • 19 senior internationals, three goals
  • 393 games (26 hits) in Division 1 , including 227/14 for Angers, 136/12 for Nice, 30/0 for Mulhouse

Coaching career and football schools in Africa

After his previous experience as a player- coach , Guillou initially trained Servette Geneva for a good year from 1985 . He then started building his first football school in the Ivory Coast , the Académie de Sol Beni (opened in 1994) in Abidjan , and later set up this type of institution in other countries ( Algeria , Egypt , Mali , Ghana , Madagascar , Thailand ) . In Abidjan, Guillou personally leads his staff of exercise instructors to the present day and also conducts training units himself. At the same time he worked from 1993 to 2000 as a trainer and in other functions at ASEC Mimosas ; the club served to enable many of its young players to have match practice and also benefited from the cooperation with numerous championship titles. From 1999 to 2000 he also advised the Ivory Coast Football Association ; In early 2010 he was a favorite to succeed Vahid Halilhodžić as coach of the Ivorian national team . Since 2001 he has worked for KSK Beveren , a Belgian club that was considered a particularly good “buyer” for African talent: during this time, up to eleven Ivorians were in Beveren's league team at individual encounters . In 2006 the club separated from Guillou after a court sentenced Beveren to pay more than one million euros to ASEC Mimosas.

A large number of players who are now under contract in the major European leagues come from Jean-Marc Guillous training centers, such as Bonaventure and Salomon Kalou , Blaise Kouassi , Aruna Dindane , Bakari Koné , Didier Zokora , Kolo and Yaya Touré , Romaric , Gilles Yapi Yapo , Emmanuel Eboué , Arthur Boka , Gervinho and many more. But there are also the numerous others who end up with lower-class clubs, remain almost anonymously and have to play for little money. That is why the role of Guillous and his schools in Third World countries is not without controversy. It is true that they help young men - including numerous street children in a country torn by civil war - to get out of the everyday misery in the bidonvilles and to realize their dream of becoming famous footballers. In addition, they receive not only a sporting, but also general education; Lessons, accommodation and meals are free. On the other hand, it is complained that they contribute to the "million dollar business with the hope ... in which there are serious managers, but also unscrupulous pushers". The criticism culminates in formulations such as “child kidnappers” (according to former UEFA President Lennart Johansson ) and “human traffickers who suck up Africa”. Guillou also earns from it; To this end, he made use of his good relationships, such as those with Arsène Wenger in the Kolo Tourés case , formerly his assistant coach at Cannes and, since 1996, has been the main manager at Arsenal London . It is also no coincidence, according to Raffaele Poli, that Guillou “chose the former French colony of Côte d'Ivoire to implement his project”.

Since the 2012/13 season, Guillous' Algerian branch, whose pupils can gain their first league experience at the local club Paradou AC , has been cooperating with the French third division club Paris FC to enable young African players to get started in European football.

literature

Used for this article
  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004, ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Paul Dietschy / David-Claude Kemo-Keimbou (co-editors: FIFA): Le football et l'Afrique. EPA, o.r. 2008, ISBN 978-2-85120-674-9
  • Raffaele Poli: Africans 'Status in the European Football Players' Labor Market. in: Soccer & Society 7, issues 2-3, pp. 278–291, 2006 (available as PDF here (PDF; 350 kB))
Further information on the topic of "Soccer migration from the third world"

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 150
  2. ^ Cadiou, p. 234
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 326
  4. ↑ Michel Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-84724-146-4 , p. 100
  5. ↑ after Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  6. ↑ "Guillou vise les Éléphants" on AfrikFoot.com
  7. ^ David Goldblatt: The ball is round. A global history of football. Viking / Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-670-91480-0 , p. 883; Dietschy / Kemo-Keimbou, p. 308
  8. ↑ Dietschy / Kemo-Keimbou, p. 312
  9. ↑ a b Poli, p. 12 of the PDF
  10. ^ Cadiou, p. 235
  11. ↑ Quotes from “The House of Hope” in Spiegel from May 31, 2010
  12. ↑ France Football of March 27, 2012, p. 14

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personal data
SURNAME Guillou, Jean-Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bouaye