Émile Veinante

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Émile Veinante (born June 12, 1907 in Metz , † November 18, 1983 in Dury , Somme department ) was a French football player and coach .

The player

The club career

Veinante, usually on the left side of the storm or as a left runner , began his career as a youth at FC Metz , which played in the German " Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine " until the end of the First World War . At the age of 21, he accepted an offer from the capital's Racing Club de France and then remained loyal to this club for many years, initially as an amateur, and from 1932 - with the introduction of Division 1 - also officially as a professional footballer. He was called up to the national team for the first time in 1929 , and in 1930 he was in the first of his three finals for the French Cup , in which his team, however, had to bow to FC Sète after extra time .

In the following years he grew in his club (renamed Racing Club Paris in 1932) into the role of playmaker and was also dangerous for goals: in 1934 he even made it into the "Top Ten" of the goalscorer list Free kicks and, even more spectacularly, his corners: in an encounter against RC Lens , Émile Veinante managed to avert the impending home defeat with three directly converted corner kicks within the final quarter of an hour.

In 1936 he won with the Racing Doublé , so French championship and cup in the same season. In 1939, he was already at that time as his team of player-coach in charge, in his third final, Coupe de France win one more time. Veinante scored the decisive goal in a 3-1 win against Olympique Lillois to make it 2-1. With the German occupation of France , his playing career in the club and in the national team ended.

Stations

  • FC Metz (1916–1928)
  • Racing Club de France / Racing Club Paris (1928–1940)

The national player

Between February 1929 and January 1940, Émile Veinante played 24 international matches for the Équipe Tricolore , scoring 14 goals. He also took part in the 1930 and 1938 World Championships . In 1930 he was only used in the insignificant final group game against Chile . In 1933 and 1934 he was rarely called up, so he remained only a reservist during the World Cup in Italy , but four years later he played both French World Cup games and scored 1-0 for the hosts in the first minute of the last 16 against Belgium .

The trainer

In the summer of 1940 Veinante was the coach of Racing Paris (until 1943); under the difficult conditions during the German occupation, however, he did not succeed in winning the title. After the liberation of the country he worked at Racing Strasbourg (1945-1947 and 1948/49), where in 1947 at least a third place in the top division (behind CO Roubaix-Tourcoing and Stade de Reims ) and reaching the cup final (0-2 against Lille) jumped out. However, he could not prevent the Alsatians from relegating in 1949 . In 1949/50 he led the OGC Nice in 5th place, in the following season the FC Metz , where he had acquired his footballing skills, from the second to the first division. Then Émile Veinante worked at the then still underclass FC Nantes (1951–1955). In the 1960/61 season he trained again for RC Strasbourg and brought it back to Division 1 .

Stations

  • 1940 to 1943: Racing Paris
  • 1945 to 1947: Racing Strasbourg
  • 1948/49: Racing Strasbourg
  • 1949/50: OGC Nice
  • 1950 to 1951: FC Metz
  • 1951 to 1955: FC Nantes
  • 1960/61: Racing Strasbourg

Palmarès as a player

personal data
SURNAME Veinante, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1983
Place of death Dury