AS Étrœungt

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The Association Sportive d'Étrœungt or AS Étrœungt for short is a football club from the small northern French community of Étrœungt . The amateur club 's women footballers have won the French national championship three times .

history

The women's department was founded around 1970, even before the French federation legalized women's football . The first players reflected a cross-section of the population, were still schoolgirls or were already working - as workers, employees and auxiliaries in a physical training facility. Although Étrœungt only had a little over 1,500 inhabitants, the association had around 30 women. The first team of AS quickly developed into the strongest team in the Franco-Belgian border region and qualified for the first time in 1975/76 for the France-wide championship finals. There she failed, however, in the group games at FC Rouen . A year later she made it to the semi-finals, and in 1978 she even won her first title after 1-0 and 1: 1 over the "subscription champions" Stade Reims in the two finals. AS Étrœungt was able to defend this title in 1979, and after a 1: 2 home defeat they won the second leg in Reims 2-0.

After an early retirement in 1980, the "Dorfkickerinnen", who in the meantime also had some national players in their ranks (see below) , had the third championship follow in 1981; Again the opponents were Stade Reims, from which Étrœungt separated after the regular time of the now only final 1: 1, but won the subsequent penalty shootout . In 1982 there was the fourth and last meeting of the two teams in a final, and this time the northern French lost it for the first time (final score 1: 2). The following year it became clear that AS Étrœungt itself was no longer without competition in the region: Olympique Hénin-Beaumont prevailed against ASÉ in the main round of the country, and in the subsequent seasons they did not even get that far. In the 2011/12 season, the name of this successful club can no longer be found in the current six-tier league system of French women's football.

Inextricably linked with the successful years is the name of the reigning coach Daniel Bertrand from 1978 , who looked after the women's team in 177 games until the end of 1982, in which only 13 defeats faced 144 wins. Up to this point in time, ASÉ was not allowed to play its mandatory home games on the local sports field; mostly she avoided going to Aulnoye-Aymeries, 15 kilometers away .
Bertrand also pointed out early on that French women's football needed performance differentiation:

“The championship format is laughable. In the first phase [carried out at regional level] you just lose your time. The difference between the best teams and the others is too big. ... [During this time] we hardly had to train. "

successes

  • French women's champion: 1978 , 1979 , 1981 (and runner-up in 1982)

National players during their time at Étrœungt

A total of eight players from this club had worn the blue dress of France, starting with the club record national player (20 appearances) Marie-Noëlle Warot (married Warot-Fourdrignier) , who from February 1977 worked there for several years with her club mate Marie-Noëlle Degardin (14 games ) formed the central defense of the Bleues . Étrœungts goalkeeper Sandrine Colombier became the successor of Marie-Louise Butzig from Reims in the national team from 1981 and had eleven encounters. Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier was the last international player for AS Étrœungt in 1985, for which she played almost half of her 41 internationals before moving to neighboring Belgium to Cercle Bruges . In addition, Isabelle Flament , Chantal Pani , Martine Petit and Chantal Prouveur made the name of the small club internationally known.

literature

  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 207
  2. ↑ see the article "L'étonnant défi de l'AS Étrœungt" in Le football au féminin, no. 1, Ed. Nouveauté, Paris 1983, p. 17
  3. ↑ see the game sheet on the website of the French association
  4. ↑ see the line-ups and the data sheets of the national players on the association's website (each individually controllable via the search window)