Armand Fouillen

Armand Fouillen
Armand Fouillen (1958-1959)
Personnel
birthday	January 17, 1933
place of birth	Lorient ,  France
size	175 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1957	AS Saint-Etienne	10 0(4)
1957-1958	Valenciennes FC	28 0(5)
1958-1959	Toulouse FC	22 0(3)
1959-1960	Red Star Paris	24 (22)
1960-1961	Rennes stadium	15 0(2)
1961-1964	AS Cherbourg	75 (38)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964-1973	Stade Brest (assistant coach)
1973-1976	Stade Brest
1991-1993	Stade Brest
1 Only league games are given.

Armand Fouillen (born January 17, 1933 in Lorient ) is a French former football player and coach .

Player career

Fouillen started playing football in his youth in his hometown Lorient, where he did not play for the big club FC Lorient , but a small club called CEP. From there he moved to AS Saint-Étienne in 1955 , where he was accepted into the first division team a year later at the age of 23. Across all competitions, the player ran twelve times for the team with whom he was able to celebrate an important title in the French championship in 1957 at the end of his first professional year. Even though he contributed four goals on the way, his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Thanks to his signature with Valenciennes FC, he remained in the country's top division and formed the offensive with Bernard Chiarelli and Petrus van Rhijn . Although he did not get more than five goals at the side of the striker Van Rhijn, he was used regularly. In 1958 he moved to the league rivals FC Toulouse ; in Toulouse, Fouillen was mostly intended as a joker behind Ernest Schultz and also turned his back on the club after a year.

The signature with Red Star Paris at the beginning of the 1959/60 season ushered in the first second division season in the player's career. At the side of Gérard Bourbotte , he surpassed his performances from previous years by far, when he scored 22 goals in 24 games. Nevertheless, he did not achieve the title of top scorer because Claude Corbel scored 29 goals, even if he needed 35 games. In addition, he gambled away with the team in a 1: 5 against FC Nantes the promotion; the game was the focus of a manipulation scandal that had been made known by Nantes' goalkeeper Lehel Somlay and that would have been manipulated in favor of Nantes.

Despite the ultimately sporting failure, Fouillen returned to the first division, as he was signed by the Stade Rennes in 1960 . In Rennes, he was unable to establish himself and only followed his 22 goals from the previous year with two. So it happened that in 1961 he left the fifth station of his career after a year and moved back to the second division for AS Cherbourg . Although he suffered from several injuries, he remained loyal to the club for three years and helped with six and two sixteen goals in securing relegation. At the age of 31 he decided in 1964 to end his active career after 75 first division games with 14 goals and 99 second division games with 60 goals.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his career, Fouillen was hired as an assistant coach at the lower-class club Stade Brest in 1964 . As such, he participated in promotion to the second division in 1970. In 1973, the then 40-year-old was promoted to head coach and kept the club in his role in the second division. After leaving the coaching chair in 1976, he returned to it after the club had been re-established in 1991 due to its bankruptcy. In 1993 Fouillon retired from professional football at the age of 60.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armand Fouillen , stade-rennais-online.com
2. ↑ Armand Fouillen , afterfooot.fr
3. ↑ Football: Armand Fouillen , footballdatabase.eu