Alain Gilles

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Alain Gilles (1980)

Alain Gilles (born May 5, 1945 in Roanne , † November 18, 2014 in Montpellier ) was a French basketball player and coach.

career

He began his basketball career at the age of 15 with Chorale de Roanne. With the team he appeared from 1961 to 1965 in the first division of France.

From 1965 to 1984 and in the 1985/86 season, the playmaker wore the colors of ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne (from 1980 as player-coach) and was eight times French champion (1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981) as well twice French cup winner (1965, 1967). In the 1970/71 season he was the best local scorer in the French league with 25.5 points per encounter. In 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1975 he was named the best French player in the league. He did not accept an offer from Real Madrid that he received during his career.

Gilles played 160 international matches, in which he scored a total of 2282 points. In 1963 he took part in the world championships, in 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971 and 1977 in European championships.

From 1980 to 1989 he was in charge of ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne as a (player) coach, under his direction the team won the championship title in 1981 and was runner-up in 1985 and 1986. In 1983 he stood as a player-coach with ASVEL in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , where you had to bow to US Scavolini Victoria Libertas from Italy. From 1990 to 1993, Gilles trained Montpellier.

Gilles, nicknamed Monsieur Basket , was a Knight of the Legion of Honor , he was also awarded the Ordre national du mérite , Gloire du Sport and the French Basketball Federation Medal of Merit in gold. A committee of players, coaches and media representatives voted him France's best basketball player of the 20th century. In 2015, the Flachet underground station in Villeurbanne near the former ASVELs venue was renamed Flachet-Alain Gilles.

In 2015, the French Basketball Federation donated the Alain Gilles Trophy as an award for French Basketball Player of the Year and French Basketball Player of the Year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [VIDEO] Montpellier: Alain Gilles est décédé, le monde du basket est sous le choc. In: Midilibre. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Alain Gilles. In: Le site des archives du basket per francais. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ http://www.ffbb.com/sites/default/files/ndeg77_78_toujours_verts_-journal_buffiere_et_gilles_0.pdf
  4. ↑ Alain Gilles s'en est allé. In: Fédération Française de BasketBall. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Alain Gilles profile, World Championship for Men 1963. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Alain Gilles "Monsieur Basket", est mort. In: Le Monde. November 19, 2014, accessed on July 22, 2020 (French).
  7. ^ Cup Winners' Cup 1982-83. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ RHÔNE. TCL: la station de métro Flachet sera rebaptisée "Flachet-Alain Gilles". In: Le Progrès. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Présentation du trophée Alain Gilles. In: Fédération Française de BasketBall. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Gilles, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Roanne
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2014
Place of death Montpellier