Marie-Louise Butzig

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Marie-Louise Butzig (born November 15, 1944 in Chablis , † March 6, 2017 in Vrigne-aux-Bois ) was a French football player .

Career

The in Burgundy grew goalkeeper played after the French federation FFF the women's football was legalized in March 1970 for a small club from Vrigne-aux-Bois in the department of Ardennes . On April 17, 1971 Marie-Louise Butzig guarded the French goal in the first international match of the women's national team against the Netherlands and did not allow any goals against in the 4-0 victory. At the unofficial World Cup in Mexico in 1971, she was fifth with the French after a 3-2 win over England . Also in November 1971 Marie-Louise Butzig was in the goal of the French women's match against Italy, now counted by the FFF as the official international debut , and in the following years she was France's first female “number 1”. Women kicking football to the west of the Rhine often encountered prejudices, as Butzig remembers: "Many of my work colleagues were of the opinion that I shouldn't play football but knit socks."

In the summer of 1972, national coach Pierre Geoffroy brought her to Stade Reims , where he also worked as a trainer. Their women were leading in the national championships from 1974/75, won five national titles within eight years - namely 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1980 and 1982  - and stood in 1978, 1979 and 1981 in the final , which Reims each against its big northern French competitor , AS Étrœungt , lost. Even when he won the unofficial club world championship in Taipei (1978), Butzig guarded the Reims goal; she had a strong competitor in Danielle Vatin , who was also a goalkeeper in the national team several times. For this tournament and the numerous trips by their team to other continents, the often working players had to take some disadvantages, as the goalkeeper remembers:

“I had to take all of my vacation for a trip in August. When we played overseas again in September and October, I had to ask my boss to give me unpaid leave. I was afraid of losing my job. But my boss said that I didn't have to worry and that I could drive without hesitation. "

In November 1980 she played her 20th and last international match - 18 of them during her time at Stade Reims - and after winning the national championship title in 1982 she had actually ended her career at the club. When, however, Danielle Vatin was canceled due to a serious injury in the autumn of that year, the now 38-year-old returned to Reims Tor for several months.

In her last years, Marie-Louise Butzig lived as a pensioner again north of Reims in Vrigne-aux-Bois, the location of her first football club, in the Ardennes. There she was active as a councilor until 2014 . She died at the beginning of March 2017 at the age of 72.

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Web links

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ a b c see the article “Women from the very beginning” on the FIFA website
  2. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, pp. 230f .; a photo of the 1975 master squad can be found in Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 158/159.
  3. ↑ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 180; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 157
  4. ↑ see the article “Un Stade de Reims en demi-teinte” in Le football au féminin, no. 1, Ed. Nouveauté, Paris 1983, here p. 15
  5. ↑ Article “ With the passing of Marie-Louise Butzig, another pioneer is leaving ” from March 17, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Butzig, Marie-Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH chablis
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2017
Place of death Vrigne-aux-Bois