André Cheuva

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André Cheuva (born May 30, 1908 in Hellemmes , a district of Lille since 1977 , † February 5, 1989 in Marcq-en-Barœul ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

At club level

André Cheuva made his debut as a youth at the Liller suburban club SC Fives , moved to Iris Club Lillois in 1926 and to local rivals Olympique in 1928 . With the introduction of professional football (1932) he returned to Fives, where he played in the first division for the next six years . He also continued to practice his learned profession as a furrier . With the SC Fives achieved the runner-up in the 1933/34 season as the best placement . For the season 1938/39 took Lille Olympique reliable, later always humble in success, but taciturn inside forward or external rotor again, and there he reached for the first time in his career, a Cup final in which his Red and Whites the Racing Club Paris but with 1: 3 documents . During the World War and the German occupation of France, he spent over two years in captivity, possibly playing again from 1942 or 1943 for the now merged OIC Lille and after the liberation of the country for another year at Olympique Marcq, an amateur club.

Stations

  • Sporting Club Fivois (until 1926)
  • Iris Club Lillois (1926–1928)
  • Olympique Lillois (1928–1932)
  • SC Fives (1932-1938)
  • Olympique Lillois (1938/39)
    • possibly Olympique Iris Club Lillois (1942–1945, 1943/44 as Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandes )
    • possibly Olympique Marcq (1945/46)

In the national team

André Cheuva was first appointed to the North of France selection and to the “Lions of Flanders”, then to the French national military team. Between May 1929 and January 1936, he finally played a total of seven international matches in the senior team , scoring two goals. In 1930 Cheuva was also part of the French squad for the first World Cup in Uruguay ; he'd already been given leave for this by his employer - but his fiancée insisted on getting married in those exact weeks, and the player didn't want to contradict her. This interrupted his career with the Equipe tricolore until October 1935.

Coaching career

In the summer of 1946, the Lille OSC signed André Cheuva as the successor to the British George Berry as a league coach; he entered a difficult legacy there, because Berry had just brought the championship title, national cup and thus also the doublé to northern France with the team, then after a disagreement with Lille's autocratic club president Louis Henno ("Louis XIX.") about his attempt to Berry to talk into the team line-up, but thrown the bailiff. In the following years, Cheuva developed into the undisputed sporting authority and the "soul of the great Liller time", which culminated in five other cup finals, of which the club won four, and another national championship. To date (2009) no other coach has won the Coupe de France four times more often than André Cheuva, only one has meanwhile also won four times . In addition, Cheuvas men were in 1951 in the final for the Coupe Latine , a regional forerunner of the European Cup ; in this, however, AC Milan proved to be insurmountable. From 1948 to 1951, his team finished four times in a row as runner-up in the French championship. In the second half of the 1950s, the star of the OSC slowly faded; In 1956 he even played only in Division 2 for a year , and when he was relegated from the top division again in 1959, the coach's engagement ended after 13 years.

After an interlude at RRFC Montegnée in Belgium , Cheuva worked from 1962 to 1966 for the second division US Boulogne , which he led three times in a row in the first national cup championship from 1963/64 , then three years for two amateur clubs, Olympique Saint-Quentin and US Tourcoing - there he replaced his former player Jean Baratte - before ending his career.

André Cheuva died at the age of 80 in his homeland in northern France. A good decade and a half later, he received special appreciation from a colleague; after Guy Roux had won his fourth Coupe de France in June 2005 and thus set Cheuva's record, he stated in the subsequent press conference:

"I would also like to remember André Cheuva, a coaching legend when I was a little boy."

Coaching stations

  • Lille Olympique SC (1946–1959, including 1956/57 in D2)
  • Royal Racing Football Club Montegnée (Belgium)
  • Union Sportive Boulogne (1962–1966, in D2)
  • Olympique Saint-Quentin (1966–1968)
  • Union Sportive Tourquennoise (1968/69)

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion: nil (but runner-up in 1934)
  • French cup winner: Neither (but finalist 1939)
  • 7 international matches (2 goals) for France

As a trainer

  • French champion: 1954 (and runner-up in 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951)
  • French cup winner: 1947, 1948, 1953, 1955 (and finalist 1949)
  • Finalist in the Coupe Latine: 1951

literature

  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 32
  2. ^ According to Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , pp. 101 and 113, Cheuva is said to have stopped playing (regularly) after his return from captivity.
  3. ↑ The "Lions de Flandres" was a selection team made up of players from the clubs from Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing .
  4. ↑ Chaumier, p. 73; Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 32
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 300-306.
  6. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 180
  7. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, esp. Pp. 84-96; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 141
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 141

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personal data
SURNAME Cheuva, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hellemmes
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1989
Place of death Marcq-en-Barœul