Marcel Domingo

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Marcel Domingo (born January 15, 1924 in Salin-de-Giraud , † December 10, 2010 in Arles ) was a French football player and coach who, in addition to his country of origin, also worked successfully in Spain .

Player career

Marcel Domingo played as a goalkeeper since his youth , initially for the amateur club of his southern French birthplace, AC Arles . At the end of the Second World War , he first went to OGC Nice and was then obliged by the capital club Stade Français . With this team, trained by Helenio Herrera , Domingo rose from the second to the first division in 1946 , but then did not succeed despite a number of well-known teammates (including Larbi Ben Barek , Louis Hon , Alfred Aston , Joseph Ujlaki and André Simonyi ) To win titles in the championship or national cup . In April 1948, however, he also played an international match for France (1: 3 against Italy ). It remained the only one of the "tall, slim and spectacular goalkeeper" because the regular place belonged to Julien Darui in those years ; in addition, foreign professionals were no longer considered at that time.

When Herrera left Paris in 1948 to work in Spain, the goalkeeper also followed him. He first played for Espanyol Barcelona and then for two years for Atlético Madrid . In the country of origin of his ancestors, Domingo was not only awarded the Trofeo Zamora as the best goalkeeper in the league in his first season , but also Spanish champions in 1950 and 1951 - under coach Herrera and in a team with Ben Barek. He then returned to France and won two titles with the OGC Nice twelve months later: Nice even won the double as champion and cup winner . On the Côte d'Azur he formed the reliable support of a team of veterans and talents such as Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , Antoine Bonifaci , Luis Carniglia and Victor Nurenberg . In addition, he reached the final of the Coupe Latine with the Aiglons after the end of the season , but in the end FC Barcelona won 1-0.

Nevertheless, he immediately moved back to Spain, where he guarded the Espanyol Barcelona goal for the next four years . In 1953 he was again awarded the Trofeo Zamora . From 1956 Marcel Domingo played for Olympique Marseille , won the Coupe Charles Drago in 1957 and ended his playing career a year later after 152 first division games in Spain and around 120 in France.

Club stations

  • AC Arles (until 1944, as an amateur)
  • OGC Nice (1944/45)
  • Stade Français Paris (1945–1948, 1945/46 in D2)
  • Espanyol Barcelona (1948/49)
  • Atlético Madrid (1949–1951)
  • OGC Nice (1951/52)
  • Espanyol Barcelona (1952-1956)
  • Olympique Marseille (1956-1958)

Coaching career

Immediately afterwards Marcel Domingo returned to Spain; there he trained a large number of teams over the next 25 years (see below) and earned a good reputation. His first club as a coach had also been his last Spanish player, Espanyol Barcelona . He was most successful at Atlético Madrid in the early 1970s . The team he supervised, in which players such as Javier Irureta , José Eulogio Gárate , Luis Aragonés , Rodri and goalkeeper Adelardo stood, won the Spanish championship title in 1970 and the competition for the King's Cup in 1972 . In addition, Atlético reached the semi-finals of the European Champions' Cup in 1971 , in which, however, Ajax Amsterdam retained the upper hand. The FC Valencia coached by Domingo also won the Spanish Cup in 1979; however, the coach was sacked shortly before the final.

In this quarter of a century, Marcel Domingo only worked in France for one year: In the 1981/82 season, the attempt to save OGC Nice from falling into the second division failed . In 1984 he finally returned to the country of his birth. With second division Olympique Nîmes , he failed twice to get promoted, in 1985 even in the barrages . At the end of his career he coached the league team of AC Arles , the club where he had spent his first years as a player. In this city he retired after a last short interim with Hércules Alicante and died there, a month before his 87th birthday.

Club stations

Palmarès

As a player

  • Spanish champion: 1950, 1951
  • French champion: 1952
  • French cup winner: 1952
  • Coupe Charles Drago winner : 1957
  • Coupe Latine finalist : 1952
  • 1 international match for France (1948)
  • Winner of the Trofeo Zamora : 1949, 1953

As a trainer

  • Spanish champion: 1970
  • Spanish Cup winners: 1972, 1979 (no longer coach in the final)
  • Semi-finalist in the European Champions' Cup: 1971

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 108
  2. ↑ 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, n.d.; for 1946 to 1948 the exact number is not available.
  3. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 430
  4. ↑ see this message from El País
  5. ^ Obituaries at El Mundo Deportivo and Foot Espagnol

Web links

  • Datasheet on the website of the French Association
personal data
SURNAME Domingo, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Salin-de-Giraud
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2010
Place of death Arles