Antoine Cuissard

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Antoine Cuissard in 1949

Antoine Cuissard (born July 19, 1924 in Saint-Étienne , † November 3, 1997 in Saint-Brieuc ) was a French football player and coach . He is one of only two players since professional football was introduced in France to be called up to the senior squad while playing for an amateur club.

The player

Antoine Cuissard came from a football-loving family; his grandparents, who own a fish shop in the Breton port city of Lorient , were among the founders of FC Lorient . His brother-in-law Julien Stopyra, his nephew Yannick Stopyra and his cousin Yvon Goujon all played for the French national team after World War II . Cuissard was born in his mother's hometown, but grew up in Brittany, where he received his education in Quimper am Likès , an institution of the brothers of the Christian schools . Since the age of 15 he played in the school team; During the Second World War he became a member of FC Lorient, which played in the Division d'honneur , the highest amateur league.

In the club

The right runner signed his first professional contract in 1944 in his hometown with AS Saint-Étienne . In Division 1 , which was still divided into two due to the German occupation , the club only occupied a midfield position in the southern group, but after the liberation Cuissard contributed significantly to the fact that his Verts - "the Greens" is the one in France, alongside the goal scorers René Alpsteg and Antoine Rodriguez Common name for the ASSE - under their Austrian-born trainer Ignace Tax , they were runner-up in the single-track top division. The fast, versatile and technically brilliant Breton, who had also scored 19 league goals in the two years, had made such a lasting impression that he was appointed to the French national team for the first time in early 1946.

All the more surprising that after this successful season he left Saint-Étienne and returned to Lorient. In addition to his connection to his native Brittany, which was quoted in a number of sources and later in his life again and again won the upper hand, the fact that his ASSE teammate Jean Snella his first coaching position in 1946 at Cuissard's "family club" FC Lorient may have contributed to this step received, which still only competed in the amateur camp. Of course, this did not affect his international career: in this season 1946/47 he played his international matches number five to nine.

In 1947, however, Antoine Cuissard returned to the Verts and to professional business. This time he stayed for five years, of which Snella, from 1948 with the amateurs, from 1950 with the league team of ASSE, during the last three again was his coach. His most famous teammates were Kader Firoud in 1947/48 and Kees Rijvers from 1950 ; In 1948, Saint-Étienne made it to fourth place, otherwise Cuissard's team only played in the middle of the table.

He then moved to OGC Nice in 1952 , which had just won the doublé from the championship and national cup. An injury threw him back so early that Nice temporarily loaned him to the neighboring second division club AS Cannes . In 1953/54 Cuissard was back in the team at the Stade du Ray , returned to the Équipe tricolore and finally won his first title: alongside national players such as Joseph Ujlaki , Abderrahman Mahjoub and Just Fontaine , he was OGC after a 2 : 1 final win over Olympique Marseille French cup winners. It was also thanks to Cuissard that their offensive forces Gunnar Andersson and Larbi Ben Barek did not develop as usual.

After another year in Nice, he moved back to Brittany in 1955, where he again accepted a move to the lower class at Stade Rennais Université Club . 1956 led Antoine Cuissard Rennes to the second division championship, returned with this in 1957 to Division 2 , rose again in 1958 to the top division and ended there after the club had secured relegation in the summer of 1959, his playing career.
Altogether, Antoine Cuissard has played 226 games in Division 1 since 1948 - for the years before only hits, but no stakes - and scored 48 hits, 104/20 for Saint-Étienne, 79/16 for Nice and 43/12 for Rennes. In the three seasons up to 1948, 34 points were added for the ASSE.

Stations

  • FC Lorient (as a youth, until 1944)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1944-1946)
  • FC Lorient (1946/47, in DH)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1947–1952)
  • OGC Nice (1952–1955)
  • AS Cannes (temporarily 1952/53, in the D2)
  • Stade Rennes UC (1955–1959, 1955/56 and 1957/58 in the D2)

In the national team

Between April 1946 and May 1954, Antoine Cuissard was appointed to the national team a total of 27 times and also scored a goal in this circle. He played 20 international matches during his time at AS Saint-Étienne, five at FC Lorient and two at Nice, and was used both as a center runner and as a half-right striker . At the end of the 1940s he and Jean Prouff , also from Breton, formed a side runner couple that was also valued outside of France ; An early high point was the 2-1 outsider victory of the French against the “football teacher” England on May 19, 1946. Among the opponents Cuissard met were Austria (3: 1, 1946) and Switzerland (2: 1 - victory in Lausanne , 1947) also two teams from German-speaking countries.

Between June 1951 and November 1953 Cuissard was absent from the Bleus . In 1954, in his last game, he was allowed to appear as team captain once. He was reluctant to remember the fact that this match against Belgium was not followed by another international appearance, because the football association had nominated him for the French squad at the World Cup finals in Switzerland , but he was no longer used there.

The trainer

After his playing days, Antoine Cuissard worked as a football teacher. He stayed with the exception of one season with the Corsican first division club AC Ajaccio , with which he succeeded in relegation, always in Brittany: a total of six years he coached Stade Rennes , with which he was only not represented in Division 1 in 1975/76 and where he was 1964 was replaced by Prouff , and two seasons his "family club" in the second division. During this time he ran a sporting goods store in Rennes, which he had bought from his former teammate Jean Grumellon .

He then settled in Gex northwest of Geneva ; After a few business failures, he remembered his grandparents' business and opened a fish shop in Brittany, which he ran until his death.

Stations

  • Rennes Stadium (1961–1964)
  • FC Lorient (1967–1969)
  • AC Ajaccio (1971/72)
  • Stade Rennes (1974–1977)

Palmarès

literature

  • Christophe Barge / Laurent Tranier: Vert passion. Les plus belles histoires de l'AS Saint-Étienne. Timée, Boulogne 2004 ISBN 2-915586-04-7 .
  • Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 .
  • 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.
  • 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 .
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 83; the other was Georges Verriest ( RC Roubaix ) in the early 1930s.
  2. ↑ Parmentier, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Chaumier, pp. 144 and 283/284.
  4. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 68/69.
  5. ↑ Figures from 1948 from Boisson / Vian.
  6. ↑ Figures up to 1948 from Parmentier, pp. 276/277.
  7. ↑ Details of the international matches from Gérard Ejnès / L'Équipe: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 309-315.
  8. ↑ Chaumier, p. 147.
  9. ↑ Chaumier, p. 84.

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personal data
SURNAME Cuissard, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1997
Place of death Saint-Brieuc