André Grillon

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André Grillon (born November 1, 1921 in Paris , † June 20, 2003 ) was a French football player and coach. In the latter function, he also looked after France's amateur national team .

Player career

In his clubs

André Grillon played as a teenager for the USA Clichy and then during World War II and the German occupation of France for the amateur club FEC Levallois . When in the "War Championship" 1943/44 in the first division due to an order of the Vichy regime only regional teams with state-paid players were allowed to compete, Grillon strengthened the ranks of the Équipe Fédérale Bordeaux-Guyenne , which finished the season in fifth place. He then moved back to the capital, where he joined the Stade Français . The club had to spend the first post-war season in the second division , from which he returned in 1946 as second in the top division. Since 1945, coach Helenio Herrera around players like Larbi Ben Barek and Marcel Domingo had formed a team that was strong at the same time as defending and playing, in which the right-back Grillon had an essential role to play. He soon acquired a good reputation as "robust and determined, tough, but never vicious", and was already a national player in the second division season 1945/46 (see below) ; At the same time, he contributed a lot to the build-up of the game, because his wide balls from the defense "were not free strokes, but regularly precise openings of counter attacks by his own team". But although Stade Français had other well-known additions up to 1948 - including Louis Hon , Alfred Aston , Joseph Ujlaki , István Nyers and André Simonyi - it did not win a championship title , but achieved only a fifth as the best placement in 1947 and 1948 Rank in the final ranking. In the national cup competition , too , the eleven were eliminated four times in a row in the quarter-finals or semi-finals.

1949 coach Paul Baron brought André Grillon to local rivals Racing . In Division 1 , things went no better with the “penguins” - the nickname widespread in the country and even officially adopted by the club - than with Stade Français; for the team, which was also well-known with goalkeeper René Vignal and field players Lucien Leduc , Jean Courteaux , Albert Guðmundsson and Ernest Vaast , reached the final in the 1949/50 Cup . In this, however, Racing was defeated by 0: 2 despite phases of overwhelming superiority against Stade Reims . In 1951/52 Grillon played for the first division newcomer Olympique Lyon , who, however , had to return  promptly to Division 2 at the end of the season despite some experienced forces - apart from the defender these were in particular player-coach Oscar Heisserer , Antoine Rodriguez and Pierre Flamion . From 1952 to 1955 André Grillon wore the dress of Stade Français Paris again, but although the club management there continued to spend a lot of money on new footballers - Grillon's teammates of these three years included Dominique Colonna , Egon Jönsson , Henri Guérin , Roger Vandooren , Kees Rijvers and Kazimir Hnatow  - the team did not repay these investments with sporting success. In 1954, she even rose to the second division , albeit only after two tight barrages against Racing Club Paris.

When the immediate resurgence failed, André Grillon, who by then had played well over 157 first division games, in which he had also scored six goals of his own, accepted an offer from the amateur league team SM Caen to work as a player-coach in Normandy . In his first season there, he and his new team advanced to the second round in the national cup after victories over Racing Paris and Olympique Alès , in which the professionals from Racing Lens needed an extension to eliminate Caen. Grillon himself was on the pitch in all three matches and was praised in the national sports press for the tactical attitude of the team and his own defense organization, especially after the 3-2 win against Paris; against second division Alès, he personally scored the only goal of the encounter with a header . The following year he led Caen again in the national cup main round, in which the SMC forced first division AS Monaco in a replay in the sixteenth finals . In 1958 he moved to US Le Mans , another amateur club, and for this he was also in the focus of a wider public in two national cup games; However, his team retired both in 1959 as a fourth division against Toulouse FC and in 1962 - when Grillon was already 40 years old - as a third division against AS Saint-Étienne in the thirty-second finals from the competition. Afterwards he concentrated exclusively on his coaching position.

Stations

  • USA Clichy (as a teenager)
  • FEC Levallois
  • 1943/44: Équipe Fédérale Bordeaux-Guyenne
  • 1944–1949: Stade Français Paris (1945/46 in D2)
  • 1949–1951: Racing Paris
  • 1951/52: Olympique Lyon
  • 1952–1955: Stade Français Paris (1954/55 in D2)
  • 1955–1958: SM Caen (in the amateur field, as a player-coach)
  • 1958–1962: US Le Mans (in the amateur field, as player-coach)

In the national team

André Grillon played a total of 15 international A matches (no goals of his own) for France between April 1946 and November 1951 . He made his debut in the 3-0 win against Czechoslovakia and came to three more missions in the following six weeks, including the 2-1 win over the English "football teachers" , in which Grillon highlighted as part of a team axis who put the English attackers, including Stanley Matthews , "ruthlessly on the chain". Until the summer of 1947, he only added one more game; then he was used in the left-back position to make room for Joseph Jadrejak on the right before the use of Roger Marche let him switch back to the right side.

After a 13-month break, Grillon played three more appearances in the national dress in May and June 1949, followed by another longer break, because the national team elector Gaston Barreau preferred Guy Huguet or André Frey on the right defensive side . In the fall of 1951 Grillon then completed his internationals number 13 to 15; the first of these was a remarkable 2-2 in Highbury against the Englishmen, who were still unbeaten at home by teams from the continent, the last took place on his 30th birthday at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir and also ended 2-2 against Austria . This was his second game against the Austrians after a 3-1 win in May 1946; He even played three games against Switzerland - all of which ended victoriously (away from home in June 1947 and October 1951, and in front of a home crowd in June 1949).

Coaching activities

André Grillon had four years as player-coach followed by two more seasons at US Le Mans , in which he only acted off the sidelines. From 1964 to 1968 he coached the first team of FC Annecy . He led the amateurs from Savoy twice to the sixteenth-finals of the Cup (1965 and 1968), with Annecy being eliminated in 1965 by “his” old club Stade Français. This was followed by a nine-year commitment at SC Amiens , which he led into the second division, in which his team was then represented a total of six seasons. From 1977 to 1980 he was the coach in charge of Amicale Lucé , which also played in the second division at this time. He then retired from football.

In addition to his engagements at Annecy and Amiens, André Grillon worked as a coach of the French amateur national team , which he coached at the Mediterranean Games in 1967 and with whom he was victorious there - together with Italy's amateurs, from whom France had separated 0-0 in the final. The following year qualified for the Olympic soccer tournament in Mexico . There his selection survived the preliminary round as group winners in front of the hosts, but failed in the quarter-finals because of the later bronze medalist Japan. Nevertheless, this performance by the amateurs was positively rated by the football-interested public in a decade in which France's professional national team crossed a “valley of tears”. Grillon kept the responsibility for the team until 1972, when they failed in the Olympic qualification for Munich because of the "state amateurs" from the Soviet Union .

Stations

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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 147
  2. ^ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 362-365
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 366
  4. ^ France Football: OL. Spécial - Clubs de légende, 2009, p. 6
  5. ↑ see the data sheets for the first and second leg together with the team lineups at footballdatabase.eu
  6. ↑ For the seasons before 1948/49 there are no stakes available, not even for the official seasons from 1945. From 1948/49 stakes and hits according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  7. ↑ according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links )
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 187
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 373
  10. ^ Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 182; There on p. 183 also the photo of a game scene in which Grillon chases the ball from Jimmy Hagan .
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 310
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 312f.
  13. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 381
  14. ^ Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1 , p. 77; see also the official 1967 list of results ( memento from June 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 500 kB) of the CIJM.
  15. ↑ Chaumier, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Grillon, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2003