AS Gardanne

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Avenir Sporting Gardannais , AS Gardanne for short , is the name of a French football club from the Provençal town of Gardanne . The club was founded in 1921. The first men's team will compete in the sixth class division d'Honneur in 2013/14 .

history

While the town of Gardanne was more industrial from the 19th century, towns like the town of Biver, which belongs to the municipality, lived more from mining. From this tradition, several football clubs emerged in the region. On February 14, 1921, Emile Escoffier, a lawyer in Aix-en-Provence , proposed the creation of a football club for Gardanne. The establishment of the club became official on October 10th when it was confirmed by the sub-prefecture . The club colors were initially set to be black and white. For the 1933/34 season, the club received a small stadium called Stade Saint-Roch near the center of the village from the community under the leadership of the then mayor Victor Savine . By winning the Provence Championship against a team from Aubagne in 1935 Gardanne secured the first regional amateur title in the club's history.

In the 1959/60 season , the team made it into the national main round of the French cup competition. This was already alone therefore a big surprise, because they at this time only in the sixth division, the Promotion d'Honneur B , took. In Zweiunddreißigstelfinale Avenir Sporting sat down with 5: 2 after extra time against a fifth division through and met in the following round on Valentine's Day on the Erstdivisionär Toulouse FC . As was customary in the Cup at the time, the game took place on a neutral pitch in Arles . The amateur team consisted of seven miners , two boilermakers - one of whom also worked at the local mine, the other at Pechiney  -, a carpenter and a motor mechanic. Among those eleven players were two whose families later grew up in France , namely Isidore Pardo, Bernard's father , and Roland Revelli, one of Hervé and Patrick's older brothers . They succeeded in what no sixth division had achieved since the introduction of professionalism in French football (1932) and made the club immortal in the history of the competition for the Coupe de France ("À jamais les premiers") : they switched Toulouse FC, the at this time, fourth in the top division and with the best line-up (including Léon Deladerrière , Robert Mouynet and Ernest Schultz ), 3-2 out. Toulouse was even 2-1 ahead, but the outsider - referred to in France as petit poucet or " thumbs up " - turned the game around. Gardanne even made it onto the front page of L'Équipe , whose headline on February 15, 1960 read “Enorm! Gardanne (30th best club in Provence) gives Toulouse (fourth best French club) a lesson! ”.

In the subsequent second round AS Gardanne met in Nice to the second division professionals of Lille who play the game with 2: 1 could decide for themselves after Gardanne with 1: 0 lead had gone. At the end of the season, the miners' team received the official association award for the best amateur club in the 1959/60 competition , donated by France Football .

In 1963, the club finally rose to the Division d'Honneur , then the fourth highest division in the French league system. Until 1987, AS Gardanne played mostly in the fourth division. After that, the team was relegated several times, only temporarily returning to the fifth division in 2007.

Well-known former players and coaches

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 - Chapter on AS Gardanne (“À jamais les premiers”) on pp. 221–223

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 376
  2. ↑ a b L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 221
  3. ↑ a b L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 223
  4. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , pp. 83f.
  5. ↑ Facsimile of this L'Équipe title page in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 223
  6. ^ Fédération Française de Football (Ed.): Cinquantenaire de la Coupe de France de Football. Amphora, Paris 1967, p. 146; there is also a photo of Gardanne's "Cup Heroes".
  7. ↑ Le football dans le bassin minier de Gardanne (PDF; 900 kB), wearefootball.org