Antoine Rodriguez

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Antoine Rodriguez (born January 10, 1918 in Cuerva , Spain as Athanasio Rodriguez , † January 2, 1967 ) was a French football player .

Club career

Athanasio Rodriguez, who was born in Spain, came to France when he was two years old with his parents, who settled in Roche-la-Molière (on the western periphery of Saint-Étienne ); When he was 12, he started working in the local china factory where his parents were also employed. Rodriguez, who is only 1.65 m tall, usually called Antoine and also competed in bicycle races, only decided to play football when he was 17 when he joined the local football club. This got him a job in the joinery of a mine; after the end of his shift he also worked at the bar of a café. In terms of sport, he quickly developed into a goal scorer for his team, which won the Amateurs championship and cup competition of the Lyonnais in 1941/42 ; he had contributed 80 goals this season alone.

Then he signed the AS Saint-Étienne , in whose first division team he immediately gained a foothold as a left winger at the side of seasoned professionals such as Ignace Tax , Jean Snella and the national players René Llense and Michel Brusseaux . In his first season in 1942/43 - during the so-called "War Championships", which were played in two groups from 1939 to 1945 and today do not count as official competitions - he was the team's most successful goalscorer with 21 goals. In 1943/44, ASSE was forced to play under amateur conditions for a year: in 1943/44, on political instructions from the Vichy regime, only regional selections (Équipes fédérales) were allowed to compete in paid football, and Saint-Étienne did not want to go along with local rivals from Lyon .

In the following two years, René Alpsteg , Antoine Cuissard (1944) and Kader Firoud (1945) joined the Verts , as the players at AS Saint-Étienne are known to this day because of their green dresses, who were in their first season after the liberation of France surprisingly became vice-champion of the now single-track Division 1 . Antoine Rodriguez, who had already taken French citizenship during the war, finished third on the league hunter list with 19 goals behind René Bihel and Pierre Sinibaldi . In the following years he also overcame the opposing goalkeepers with great regularity: 1946/47 20, 1947/48 16 and 1948/49 19 times, which also made him one of the most accurate attackers (1946/47 17th, 1947 / 48 12th and 1948/49 9th place). Despite his achievements and the fact that the ASSE was never placed worse than in the 11th place in the final table until 1951, it was still never called to the national team.

In 1949 he moved to the Girondins Bordeaux , where he finally managed to win a national title; however, he had not even been used in half of the point games in the championship, which was won by a clear margin. Whether he in the subsequent Latin Cup was still in the process in which the Girondins for a 4: 2 over Atletico Madrid in two finals (3:. 3 n V and 1. 2 aet) Benfica subject, still requires the Clarification. In any case, he returned to the Verts for a year in 1950 , where a new star was just rising with Kees Rijvers , and this season he helped in the cup competition that the club made it to the bottom four teams, including three games in the quarter-finals against Le Havre AC were required. In 1951/52 he played in the jersey of the "arch-rival" Olympique Lyon , who was relegated to the second division at the end of the season. It is not known whether the striker played there in 1952/53.

After the end of his career, Antoine Rodriguez settled near Lyon. His son Gilles, born in 1959, however, later returned to AS Saint-Étienne as a player and coach; However, the son was not as successful as his father, who is one of the most successful goalscorers of all time for ASSE with 102 competitive goals.

Stations

  • Roche-la-Molière (until 1942)
  • Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (1942–1949)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1949/50)
  • Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (1950/51)
  • Olympique Lyonnais (1951/52)

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1950 (and runner-up in 1946)
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but semi-finalist 1951)
  • from 1948 51 games and 24 goals in Division 1 , including 30/17 for Saint-Étienne, 13/6 for Bordeaux, 8/1 for Lyon
  • Third best scorer in Division 1 : 1946

literature

  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of death according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ http://www.anciensverts.com/joueur.php?numero=rodriguez&prenom=Antoine
  3. ↑ Parmentier, p. 38
  4. ↑ Parmentier, p. 39
  5. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 147
  6. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 275-278.
  7. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, pp. 148-150.
  8. ↑ Parmentier, p. 47
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 367
  10. ↑ http://www.anciensverts.com/joueur.php?numero=rodriguez&prenom=Gilles
  11. ↑ Exact numbers of operations before 1948 are not known; see. 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.
personal data
SURNAME Rodriguez, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodriguez, Athanasio (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuerva , Spain
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1967