Simon Zimny

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Simon Zimny (born May 18, 1927 in Divion , Pas-de-Calais department , † April 3, 2007 in Épernay ) was a French football player .

The club career

As a teenager, Simon Zimny ​​played, among others, for US Nœux-les-Mines , the club from the birthplace of Raymond Kopa , with which he was then in a team from 1951 to 1956 at Stade de Reims , the then flagship of French and European football . Zimny ​​came to Champagne as early as 1949 , was initially a member of the amateur eleven and was used for the first time in some professional league games in 1950/51 . Here, the managed -back way, the only league goal of his eight years of Reims. 1951/52 he played almost half of the games in the first team, and when André Jacowski , the long-time right defender of the Red-Whites, vacated his place at the end of the season, coach Albert Batteux appointed the factual, angular Zimny ​​as his successor.

The first season as a regular player ended with a double title win for Simon Zimny: In 1953 Reims became French champions and then also won the Coupe Latine - the defenders Zimny ​​/ Marche played a not to be underestimated part of this, as it ensured together with the head of defense, Center runner Jonquet and goalkeeper Paul Sinibaldi for ensuring that the top-class attackers Kopa, Glovacki , Pierre Sinibaldi , Appel and Méano , who together scored 76 of the 86 goals in Division 1 , had to work little backwards. Against such a team that also with Penverne and Cicci also two excellent external rotor decreed also were Valencia and AC Milan a chance in the games to the Latin Cup.

1953/54 "only" runner-up, Zimny ​​won his second championship title with his Rémois in 1955, whereby the team qualified for the first ever European Cup. Mostly spared from injuries over the years, he also played 6 of the 7 games in this competition - including the final on June 13, 1956 in the Prinzenpark in Paris , in which Stade de Reims, however, had to bow to Real Madrid 3: 4.

At the end of the 1957/58 season, Simon Zimny ​​became national champion for the third time and also won the French Cup . But since Bruno Rodzik, a young, highly talented right-back, was "waiting in line" for the new season, Zimny ​​moved, not entirely voluntarily, to the Stade Français Paris in the second division, rose immediately to the capital and finished there after another Season in Division 1 his active career.

Stations

The national player

On October 9, 1955, Zimny ​​played his only game for the French national soccer team in the 2-1 win against Switzerland in St. Jakob-Park in Basel .

Life after football

In the early 1960s , Simon Zimny ​​settled in Épernay , just a few kilometers from Reims , and worked as a physical education teacher. He died there shortly before the age of 80 in April 2007.

Palmarès

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X
personal data
SURNAME Zimny, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Divion , Pas-de-Calais department
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2007
Place of death Epernay