Édouard Wawrzyniak

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Édouard Wawrzyniak or Wawrzeniak , called Waggi (born September 28, 1912 in Oberhausen , † 1991 ), was a Polish-born French football player .

Club career

Wawrzyniak belongs to the legion of Polish miner families who immigrated  to the coal mining district in northern France after the end of the First World War - often via the intermediate station in the Ruhr area (such as the footballers Jean Snella , Ignace Kowalczyk or Raymond Kopaszewski's ancestors). He began in the youth of RC Lens , for which he was used in the first team from 1931 - the first of several stations in his career, in which he stormed together with Ignace Kowalczyk on the left attacking side . From 1933 the attacker played for the US Valenciennes-Anzin in the newly created, professional Division 2 . In the summer of 1935 he rose to the top division with the USVA ; "Waggi" together with "Ignace", also here his neighbor on the left wing, played a decisive role in this success. In the first half of the 1935/36 season, the recently naturalized player was even appointed to the French national team (see below) . In Division 1 , however, it was less successful for the newly promoted: Valenciennes had to return to the second division in the end as penultimate in the table, although the left winger, missing in only one point game, had prepared numerous hits and netted ten times himself.

The "explosive left winger" then moved to Olympique Marseille together with Ignace . Marseille new coach József Eisenhoffer was able to draw from a pool of exceptional players - for example Emmanuel Aznar , Abdelkader Ben Bouali , Vilmos Kohut , Edmond Weiskopf , Mario Zatelli and goalkeeper Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos  - including a particularly large number of offensive forces, so that Édouard Wawrzyniak only made four league appearances in which he scored at least two goals. Nevertheless, he was able to celebrate his first championship title with the southern French at the end of the season . However, he then moved back to the north: with Le Havre AC he became second division champion in 1937/38; nevertheless he did not stay in Normandy , but laced his boots for the Lorraine league competitor USB Longwy , who finished the 1938/39 season only in the middle of the table.

After the outbreak of the Second World War he was presumably drafted into the army - in any case, his name is missing from the lists of these first "war championships" , which are only considered an unofficial title fight . After the German occupation of the country Waggi stormed for the suburban club SC Fives in Liller at the highest level. This part of France belonged to the zone interdite ("forbidden zone"), in which there was no league operation in 1940/41; However, the clubs were allowed to take part in the national cup , whose competitions during the war are still official today. In it, Fives eliminated the RC Lens and defeated Excelsior AC Roubaix 3-1 in the zone finals ; then the SCF met the Girondins Bordeaux (winner in the play-off between the winners of the competitions in the occupied and unoccupied zone). In this national final, Wawrzyniak's team, which included Marceau Somerlinck , Joseph Jadrejak , François Bourbotte and Norbert Van Caeneghem , lost 2-0 to the Girondins.

Then Wawrzyniak moved to Lyon OU in the so-called "free France" . Whether he still played there in 1944/45 when Lyon won the Groupe Sud championship and lost 4-0 in the subsequent, unofficial final against the champions of the occupied zone, FC Rouen , has not yet been clearly established. After the liberation of the country, he earned his living as a player-coach with the second division RC Vichy , at least in the 1945/46 season, according to another source until 1948.

Stations

  • Racing Club de Lens (before 1931-1933)
  • Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin (1933–1936, including 1933–1935 in D2)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1936/37)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1937/38, in D2)
  • Union Sportive du Bassin de Longwy (1938/39, in D2)
  • Sporting Club Fivois (1940/41)
  • Lyon Olympique Universitaire (1941–1945)
  • Racing Club de Vichy (1945/46 or longer, in D2, as player-coach)

In the national team

Édouard Wawrzyniak played his only A international match for France against Sweden in November 1935 , in which he prepared Roger Courtois ' goal for the 2-0 final with a fine one-two . Also in this game he formed the left wing together with Ignace Kowalczyk. In the early years of his career, he was also called several times in the selection eleven of Northern France, with whom he played against an Essen city ​​team, the professional game of Sheffield Wednesday and a selection from Lower Saxony.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1937 (and runner-up in 1945 [unofficial title])
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but finalist 1941)
  • 1 international match (no hit) for France
  • In Division 1 29 games and 10 goals for Valenciennes, 4/3 for Marseille (the numbers for Fives and Lyon cannot be determined at the moment)

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ only the homepage of the French association (see web links) gives his year of birth as 1913
  2. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 144
  3. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 141
  4. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1935/36. Paris 1936, p. 48
  5. ↑ Chaumier, p. 312
  6. ↑ Pécheral, p. 446
  7. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1936/37. Paris 1937, p. 44; according to Pécheral, pp. 379 and 385, even three goals
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 357
  9. ^ With Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 146, his name is not found in the 1944/45 LOU team.
  10. ^ Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 213; the information that Waggi worked in Vichy until 1948 comes from Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 144.
  11. ↑ Chaumier, p. 312
  12. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 144

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personal data
SURNAME Wawrzyniak, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wawrzeniak, Waggi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH 1991