André Guy

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André Guy (born March 3, 1941 in Bourg-en-Bresse ) is a former French football player .

Club career

André Guy was an assertive center forward with enormous shooting power who “appeared shy, even sleepy and apathetic” off the field. Although Guy almost consistently only played in teams that were at best in the middle of the table, with a total of 160 goals in Division 1 he is still 15th of the most successful league goalscorers of all time . He made it into the top ten goalscorer in seven consecutive seasons, in 1969 he even took first place: 1963/64 2nd with 28, 1964/65 4th with 17, 1965/66 3rd with 22, 1966/67 3rd. with 20, 1967/68 6th with 16, 1968/69 1st with 25 and 1969/70 7th with 17 hits. In addition, he thought a lot about his profession and did not mince his words, for example when he publicly advocated the lifting of the lifelong player bond with their first professional club (1969) or the reasons for the crisis in French football in the early 1970s Years expressed.

He began his professional career in 1959 with the first division club FC Sochaux ; there was initially great competition for the position of attack leader ( Yvon Goujon and Victor Nurenberg ), so that André Guy came in his first season only a few missions. At the end of this, the club was relegated to the second division , but promptly returned to the House of Lords in 1961. When Sochaux was relegated again a year later, he moved - especially since he had not been able to prevail against the new center forward Bernard Bosquier - to the second division AS Saint-Étienne . Guy had his personal breakthrough at ASSE: he became a regular player and after a year he was promoted to Division 1 . Only twelve months later he won with the Verts - as "Greens" were and are Saint-Étiennes players because of their dress color - his first title when the climber finished the season 1963/64 as French champions . For this team, which coach Jean Snella had formed from a successful mix of veterans ( Rachid Mekhloufi , René Ferrier , Robert Herbin , Jacques Foix and Aimé Jacquet ) and younger talents, the striker alone scored 28 of the 71 ASSE goals. The club then signed with François Heutte , Maryan Wisnieski and Hervé Revelli three more attackers; Guy, who had also become a national player in the first half of the season (see below) , defended his place, but the more offensive orientation of the team did not lead to the hoped-for title defense in 1964/65; In the national cup , the Verts at least reached the semi-finals, but then failed due to the eventual winner of the Coupe de France , Stade Rennes . Therefore, at the end of this season, he and Heutte were sold to the Lille OSC .

Despite Guys sustained hit rate, the northern French were able to score 18 in 1965/66. keep the league only by asserting themselves in the barrages ; the following year they ended up in the secure midfield - and the striker was drawn back to his home country, this time to Olympique Lyon , which found itself in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1967/68 after victories over Aris Bonneweg and Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-finals. In the first leg against Spurs at Stade Gerland , Guy and his London opponent Alan Mullery were sent off in the 34th minute, but he was back against Hamburger SV . After 0: 2, 2: 0 a.s. and 0: 2 (play-off again in the Volksparkstadion ), Lyon missed the semi-finals. Even at OL, the coach ( Louis Hon ) was able to rely on other dangerous strikers ( Fleury Di Nallo and, from 1969, Serge Chiesa and Bernard Lacombe ); but the team was far from winning a national title, although André Guy, also a passionate hunter in his spare time , even won the top scorer's crown in the Première Division in 1969 .

Loaned to Stade Rennes UC in the course of the 1970/71 season, he finally won the French Cup under coach Jean Prouff , in which he played a major role: he scored 6 goals in 7 appearances, and the last was also the only goal in the final. which he scored with a penalty - of all things against Olympique Lyon, for which apart from André Guy also Rennes' goalkeeper Marcel Aubour had long played. Guy's decisive shot almost went over the goal, because the striker, who had previously fouled himself, kicked more into the ground than against the play equipment and, according to his own statement, had shaky knees: “I hit the ball wrong, shot it with my instep and saw how he climbed up. ”
Despite this success, he wore the dress of the second division Sporting Toulon in the following season , then that of the lower-class JGA Nevers and then ended his active career. What happened to him afterwards has not yet been determined.

Stations

  • FC Sochaux (1959–1962, of which 1960/61 in D2)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1962–1965, of which 1962/63 in D2)
  • Lille Olympique SC (1965-1967)
  • Olympique Lyonnais (1967-1970)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1970/71)
  • Sporting Club de Toulon (1971/72, in D2)
  • Jeune Garde Athlétique Nivernaise

In the national team

Between October 1964 and November 1968 André Guy played eight full internationals for France ; he also got two hits. After four missions, a two and a half year break in his career as an international followed from the beginning of 1965, so that he was not included in the 1966 World Cup squad . The fact that he failed to become a regular player was partly due to the fact that he rarely demonstrated the qualities he showed in the club in the blue jersey, and also to the strong competition in his position (in particular from Philippe Gondet , Fleury Di Nallo and Hervé Revelli ). After a home defeat against Norway , which cost France participation in the World Cup finals in 1970 -  L'Équipe headlined "Iversen buries the blues on Meinau " the day after - it was no longer considered.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1964
  • French cup winner: 1971
  • 271 games and 160 goals in Division 1 , including 6/3 for Sochaux, 65/45 for Saint-Étienne, 76/43 for Lille, 110/64 for Lyon, 14/5 for Rennes
  • D1 top scorer in 1969
  • 8 international matches (2 goals) for France, 3/1 of which during his time at ASSE, 1/0 at Lille and 4/1 at Lyon
  • 9 games and 3 goals in the European Cup, 2/2 for ASSE and 7/1 for OL

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: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 66
  2. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 151
  3. ↑ Figures from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 161-172; According to Parmentier, p. 289, there were even 30 hits in 1963/64.
  4. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 168 and 182
  5. ↑ Parmentier, p. 60
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 381
  7. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007] ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , pp. 261/262
  8. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 209
  9. ^ Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8 , p. 236
  10. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 109
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 387
  12. ↑ 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. 121 and 324-328
  13. ↑ after 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.
  14. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 251 and 320

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personal data
SURNAME Guy, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourg-en-Bresse