Boleslaw Tempowski

Boleslaw Tempowski (born May 31, 1921 in Dombrowa , † December 5, 2008 in Nîmes ), usually called Bolek Tempowski in France , was a French football player and coach of Polish origin .

Club career

Boleslaw Tempowski came to the northern French mining region in 1927 as the child of Polish immigrants , where the family worked in agriculture. He later bought this farm from his income and regularly worked on it himself. At 17, the only 1.63 m tall, slender half-striker made his debut alongside goalgetters René Bihel at US Valenciennes in the second division . He had a hard shot, good technique and was assertive despite his physique. Shortly thereafter, the career of the player, usually known for short as “Bolek” or “Tempo”, was interrupted by the outbreak of war and the German occupation of France . The northern clubs could only take part in the cup competition until 1942 , but not in the championship rounds, because they were located in the "forbidden zone" (zone interdite) directly subordinate to the German military administration in Brussels . From 1941 or 1942 Tempowski played for the Liller suburban club SC Fives and was third in the table with this in the northern relay of Division 1 in 1943. In the 1943/44 season he - like all French professional footballers - had to compete with his teammates François Bourbotte , Joseph Jadrejak and Marceau Somerlinck for a regional selection because the government of "free France" wanted to abolish professional sport. In the Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres , the striker met Bihel again, as well as later internationals Julien Darui and Jean Baratte , and this team was runner-up in 1944  - a title that is now only unofficial.

In the last year of the war again under contract with Valenciennes, he moved to Lille Olympique in 1945 , where numerous players from Fives and the selection of Lille-Flandres welcomed "their Bolek". Tempowski became an undisputed regular player in a legendary team that was continuously strengthened in the following six years by players like Jacques Grimonpon , Cor van der Hart , André Strappe , Roger Vandooren and Jean Vincent , especially on the offensive, collecting and winning titles like on the assembly line one of the legendary teams of French professional football. In Division 1 , Lille was champion in 1946 and vice-champion four times in a row from 1948 to 1951. The eleven were even more successful in the cup competition for the Coupe de France , which they were able to place three times in a row in the showcase of the club house. Tempowski was present in all three finals: in 1946 he scored the first goal in a 4-2 win over Red Star (which LOSC also won the doublé ), 1947 (2-0 over Racing Strasbourg ) and 1948 (3-2 against the big one Northern rivals Racing Lens ) contributed his assists to the successes. In the 1949 final, which Lille lost 5-2 to Racing Club Paris , he was missing: in March 1949 he had a broken leg in the point game against CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , which sentenced him to an eight-month break. Before that, he had shot himself in third place among the top scorers in the league in 1947/48 with 23 goals and had also become a national player (see below) .

“Tempo” never really recovered from this injury, which he suffered as a 27-year-old. Although he played for a good four years for Lille, Racing Strasbourg (1951/52) and SO Montpellier (from 1952); but his comeback was also not a good star because neither the Alsatian nor Montpellier were strong enough to hold the top division. After Tempowski had completed four games in the second division at the beginning of the 1953/54 season and also scored a goal, he announced the end of his professional career to his coach Darui (also an ex-teammate in the ÉF Lille-Flandres).

Stations

• Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin (1938– ?, in D2)
• Sporting Club Fivois (1941 or 1942–1943)
• Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres (1943/44)
• Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin (1944/45)
• Lille Olympique SC (1945–1951)
• Racing Club de Strasbourg (1951/52)
• Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1952–1954)

In the national team

Tempowski played internationally for the French national military team, the B and once also the A national team , the latter against England in May 1947 . In this encounter he had the unusual defensive task at Highbury Stadium , eliminating the opposing playmaker Wilfred Mannion . He did not succeed completely, as Mannion even scored England's second goal in the 3-0 defeat of the Bleus . "Bolek" was still called up to his injury in the A-squad, but not reinstated.

The trainer

In 1954, Boleslaw Tempowski settled in the then French colony of Algeria , where he trained Stade Guyotville. When the War of Independence came to a head there , he fled headlong to the “motherland” with his wife and their two children , first to Porto-Vecchio in Corsica , where he also instructed an amateur team, and then back to northern France. At the Iris Club de Lambersart there, he looked after the youth team, including the young Didier Six and the son of his Liller storm colleague Jean Lechantre . Another station from 1979 to 1982 was the activity as a first division kotrainer at his club of origin, the US Valenciennes-Anzin.

In December 2008, Boleslaw Tempowski, who “stood out for his friendliness and modesty” outside the field of play, died at the age of 87 in southern France.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1946 (and runner-up in 1944 [unofficial title], 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951)
• French cup winner: 1946, 1947, 1948
• 1 international match (no hit) for France
• at least 184 games and 92 goals in Division 1 , including 21/12 for Valenciennes, 112/65 for Lille, 21/8 for Strasbourg, 30/7 for Montpellier

literature

• Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
• 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
• Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
• Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
• 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: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

1. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 124
2. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 132; Chaumier, p. 289
3. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 145
4. ↑ Cornu, pp. 75-96; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 32-37.
5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 362
6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 363/364
7. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 132
8. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 149; Cornu, p. 87
9. ↑ Barreaud, p. 212
10. ↑ Chaumier, p. 289
11. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 310f.
12. ↑ Barreaud, p. 212
13. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 132; Chaumier, p. 289
14. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 132
16. ↑ Figures up to 1948 from Guillet / Laforge, pp. 147–149, and Barreaud, p. 212; from 1948 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, n.d.; for 1946/47 the number of his games is missing, the season 1944/45 does not count as an official championship.

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the website of the French Association
• Article from La Voix du Nord from December 6, 2008