Edouard Kargulewicz

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Édouard Kargulewicz (born December 16, 1925 in Górki , Poland ; † March 13, 2010 in Camblanes-et-Meynac , France ) was a football player who completed his entire sporting career in France and who also took French citizenship. There he was usually briefly called Édouard Kargu .

Club career

Édouard Kargulewicz immigrated with his parents to the northern Lorraine mining region at the age of two , where he received his football training in the 1930s at US Piennes , an amateur club from which numerous professional footballers with Italian or Polish roots emerged. According to the French association FFF , he is said to have played at two other clubs in the region, AS Giraumont and CS Blénod , as well as at the UA Cognac ; he may have moved to Cognac in southwestern France during the war and the German occupation . From there in any case, the professional club Girondins AS du Port brought him to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1940s . With the Girondins, the center forward was under contract throughout his career. From 1947 he played for the team in the second division , and in the following season he was part of the team, for which he scored 16 goals.

When the Girondins were promoted to the first division in 1949 , "Kargu" soon developed into the "horror of the opposing defensive ranks". And in his first year at the highest level, he became French champion with the newcomer and achieved seventh place in the league chasing list with 17 goals . In addition, he became a national player immediately after winning the title, and in the Coupe Latine in the same summer there was not much that he and his team would have brought an international title to the Gironde : in the final they forced Benfica Lisbon by a 3: 3 after extra time in a replay (1: 2).

Bordeaux never finished worse than sixth in the league table during the five following years, was runner-up in the 1951/52 season and then third twice. Kargulewicz was 1953 (18 goals) and 1955 (17) each the fifth most successful shooter in the league; In 1954 he even won the top scorer's crown with 27 goals. He benefited from the fact that the Girondins were well staffed in all parts of the team during these years - on the defensive with players like Pierre Bernard , Jean Swiatek (the team captain had also played for US Piennes earlier ) and Jacques Grimonpon , and distributed on the offensive the responsibility on several, also goal-scoring teammates like Antoine Rodriguez , Henri Baillot , Bertus de Harder , Joop de Kubber and Ben Mohammed Abdesselem . Also in the national cup competition Édouard Kargulewicz was twice in the final; however, Bordeaux had to bow to a stronger opponent both times. The French press raved about the 1952 final , in which the league runner-up met champions OGC Nice , that it was "a glorious, enthusiastically led and exuberant" one from both teams, "as we have never seen it before". Shortly before half-time, Kargulewicz brought his team up to 2: 3, but after 90 minutes Nice had prevailed 5-3. In 1955 there was another scoring final, which the Girondins lost again (2: 5 against OSC Lille ); this time he was without a goal.

A year later, however, the team rose as table-17. surprisingly from Division 1 ; “Kargu” remained loyal to his club, played almost every match in the following two seasons, but played more lagging behind and did not score as many goals. 1958 ended his professional career, in which he scored 105 goals in a total of 208 first division games for the Girondins Bordeaux. He settled near Bordeaux; He died there in 2010 at the age of 84.

Stations

  • ES Piennes (as a teenager)
  • AS Giraumont
  • CS Blénod
  • UA cognac
  • 1947–1958: Girondins Bordeaux (1947–1949 and 1956–1958 in D2)

In the national team

In June 1950, Édouard Kargulewicz made his debut against Belgium in the French senior team , after he had been naturalized when he came of age (1946) . He scored France's only goal on his debut and scored a goal in the following game against the same opponent; therefore he wore the blue dress in the next five matches, but was mostly used as a half-forward because the center-forward position was reserved for Jean Baratte . After June 1951, however, it was no longer considered in A international matches for a long time. It was not until May 1953 that he was preferred to André Strappe against Wales and also played in the next two games, scoring his third goal in this circle against Luxembourg . In November 1953 he came in the 2-4 home defeat against Switzerland for his eleventh and last appearance for France.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1950 (and runner-up in 1952)
  • French cup winner: Nothing but a finalist in 1952 and 1955
  • 11 senior internationals, 3 goals
  • Division 1 top scorer : 1954

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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

  • Datasheet on the website of the French Football Association

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 374
  2. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 174
  3. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 122
  4. ↑ see Kargus data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  5. ^ The corresponding individual placements, also for the following years, according to Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 149-155.
  6. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X , p. 83
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 368
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 371
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ see the message about Kargulewicz's death on the football association's website
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 312f.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 314f.
personal data
SURNAME Kargulewicz, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kargu, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Górki , Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2010
Place of death Camblanes-et-Meynac , France