Marc Berdoll

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Marc Berdoll (born April 6, 1953 in Trélazé , Maine-et-Loire ) is a former French football player .

Club career

The fast and dangerous center forward , who grew up on the outskirts of Angers , joined SCO Angers at the age of 15, where he played in the starting eleven in the 1970/71 season. Between 1971 and 1974 the club always belonged to the top group of Division 1 (twice 4th and once 5th place in the final table ), and the young Berdoll, whose external characteristics were shoulder-length hair and a mustache "à la Vercingetorix ", contributed significantly in: 1973/74 he finished second in the top scorer list with 29 goals behind Carlos Bianchi . This season he succeeded against goalkeeper Ivan Ćurković also one of two "fours" of his career, with which he "shot" AS Saint-Étienne almost single-handedly; the present national coach Ștefan Kovács called him immediately to the national team. 1974/75 his 17 goals (4th place in the league shooters) could not prevent the sudden fall of SCO Angers into the second division . Twelve months later, the club returned as second division champions to the upper house of football, and Berdoll had become Division 2's most successful goalscorer .

Nevertheless, Berdoll changed clubs in the summer of 1976 when Bundesliga club 1. FC Saarbrücken signed him for 440,000 DM. The striker, who was married to a Lorraine woman, took up residence across the border in Sarreguemines . The intensity of the training and the tough cover in Germany caused him greater problems, and he also didn't get along well with the coach Slobodan Čendić , who spoke no German. His first - and ultimately only - point goal he scored on matchday 2 at 1: 2 at Borussia Dortmund . When Cendic no longer considered him in the fall of 1976, he owed his next missions for 1. FCS to the loud demands of the spectators in the Ludwigsparkstadion and the advocacy of the club president, who shortly afterwards dismissed Cendic prematurely. But even under his successor Manfred Krafft , Marc Berdoll was not particularly convincing in the Bundesliga, so that at the end of the season, after relegation, he returned to France.

In 1977 sports director Josip Skoblar brought him to Olympique Marseille , for whom he scored many goals again until 1980 - 20 in the 1977/78 season alone (seventh best shooter) - and Marc Berdoll also returned to the national team. Two years later, however, Marseille had to be League-19. relegate, among other things because the attacker no longer played so consistently. He then rejoined his first professional club, the SCO Angers, which also left Division 1 in the summer of 1981 . During the following season, the no longer so dangerous Berdoll was even loaned to the lower class SC Amiens . From there he did not return to Angers, but stormed for its league rivals US Orléans , who always played for promotion over the next three years, but Berdoll did not succeed in returning to the top division there either. In 1985, at the age of 32, he ended his professional career.

Stations

  • Foyer de Trélazé
  • Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers (1968–1976)
  • 1. FC Saarbrücken (1976/77)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1977-1980)
  • Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers (1980–1982, only 1980/81 in D1)
  • Sporting Club d'Amiens (1st half of 1982, in D3)
  • Union Sportive Orléanaise (1982–1985, in D2)

In the national team

Between September 1973 and May 1979, Marc Berdoll, who had also played in the junior national team (Espoirs) , played 16 senior internationals for the Équipe tricolore , in which he also scored 5 goals. Half of his appointments, however, consisted of substitutions. In 1978 he was part of the French squad at the World Cup finals in Argentina , where he played two of the national team's three games. In this tournament too, he was  one of the French goalscorers in the 3-1 win over Hungary .

Life after football

Since the mid-1980s, Berdoll has been working in the municipal administration of L'Hôpital , only around 25 km west of Saarbrücken , where he was responsible for sports for many years. He has now been entrusted with urban and landscape planning there.

Palmarès

  • French champion : Nothing
  • French cup winner : Nothing
  • 16 full international matches with 5 goals, 5 of which were in his time with Angers and 11 with Marseille
  • a total of 251 first division games with 102 goals scored in France (159/62 for Angers and 92/40 for Marseille) and 17/1 in Germany

literature

  • 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
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pécheral, p. 421.
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 38
  3. ^ French first division numbers from 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.
  4. ↑ according to DFL (ed.): Bundesliga Lexikon. The official reference work. Europa, Zurich 2003 ISBN 3-9522779-0-8 , p. 87

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personal data
SURNAME Berdoll, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Trélazé