Albert Dubreucq

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Albert Dubreucq (born June 3, 1924 in Lille , † October 13, 1995 ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

The 178 centimeter tall defensive midfielder Dubreucq grew up in Lambersart in northern France , where his family lived right next to the Iris Club Lillois stadium . At this club he began playing football in his youth, before he played for the US Marquette and Olympique Marcquois . In 1945, the then 21-year-old was included in the squad of the first division club OSC Lille , for which he was able to play his first games in the national league a little later, even if he did not get beyond sporadic appearances at the beginning. Through the four games that he played during the 1945/46 season, he belongs to the championship team from 1946, as his team was able to secure the national title. In the following season he made the team-internal breakthrough after the contract of the national player François Bourbotte was dissolved in November 1946 for disciplinary reasons. From then on he was mostly part of the first team, although he failed with the team on a possible defense of the title. Nevertheless, he won his second trophy when he was one of the eleven players who won the national cup final for Lille 2-0 against RC Strasbourg in 1947 . At the cup final in 1948 Dubreucq was again on the pitch and was involved in the fact that the title could be won for the second time in a row by a 3-2 win against RC Lens . With a victory in the cup final in 1949 , the series could have been expanded, but Dubreucq suffered a 2-5 defeat against Racing Paris in his third and final final in the national cup . Around 1950, Lille was a top team that finished second in the league four times in a row without winning any further titles in those years. This succeeded in 1953 with the renewed win of the cup, but Dubreucq did not get involved because he was not called up despite his role as a regular player in the final.

In 1953 he turned his back on Lille and moved from the top club in the first division to the capital club Racing Paris, which had slipped into the second division . In this he was an integral part of the team when the return to the top division was achieved in the 1953/54 season. After that, however, he was almost completely ousted from the first team. Therefore, he signed in 1955 with city rivals CA Paris , who were competing in the second division , where he also took over the coaching responsibility and thus filled a role as a player- coach . In 1957 he gave up both and ended his professional career at the age of 33 after 208 first division games with seven goals and 98 second division games with five goals.

Coaching career and further life

The former professional, who had already gained experience as a coach in his last two career years at CA Paris, got a job as a coach of the amateur club LB Châteauroux in 1957 , which he remained until 1961. From 1962 to 1965 he carried out the same function at Calais RUFC and then worked as a coach for the Belgian club Excelsior Mouscron . In 1968 he took over AC Cambrai , which he led to the second division in 1970 and left a year later after relegation. Then he worked in Saint-Omer before coaching the team of the traditional Excelsior AC Roubaix from 1975 to 1977 . At the end of the 1970s he was a coach for the second time in Mouscron, Belgium, before he last worked for a club in Arques, France. In 1980 he ended his coaching career and settled in his home region on the northern edge of France.

With Serge Dubreucq (1948-2004), the son of the ex-professional, who had been married since 1947, also took up the profession of football player. He played 71 first division games, but unlike his father never won a title and never played for the national team.

National team

Dubreucq was 27 years old when he made his debut for the French national team on March 26, 1952 in a 1-0 loss to Sweden . The friendly game remained the only game he was allowed to play for the selection. There are also four encounters that he played in the B national team.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Dubreucq - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  2. ↑ a b c Albert Dubreucq complete profile ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
  3. ↑ Football: Serge Dubreucq , footballdatabase.eu
  4. ↑ Joueur - Albert DUBREUCQ , fff.fr
personal data
SURNAME Dubreucq, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille , France
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1995