Celestin Oliver

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Célestin Oliver (born July 12, 1930 in Mostaganem , Algeria , † June 5, 2011 in Marseille ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

societies

Célestin Oliver, who had started playing football at Idéal Sport in his hometown, was brought to the Ardennes in 1953 after a qualifying game for the French amateur national team by Louis Dugauguez , then coach of the UA Sedan-Torcy . In the second division , the two-footed striker hit so well that he was allowed to wear the national team's blue dress less than half a year later (see below ) . In 1955, with 29 goals, he made a significant contribution to the rise of his club to Division 1 and established himself there straight away: the 1955/56 season ended the UAST in a respectable 9th place. Above all, however, the “worker footballers”, as this team of semi-professionals and without stars was often called, succeeded in the cup competition ; after victories over FC Grenoble , AS Saint-Étienne and Olympique Lyon (the only goal of this semi-final was scored by Célestin Oliver from a penalty, who had already scored against Grenoble), they reached the final against AS Troyes-Savinienne , in which they scored 3: 1 retained the upper hand. In the two following seasons, too, "Schwarzfuß" Oliver -  pieds-noirs, was called the Algerian French in France in the post-war decades - led his club to the top of the table, in 1957/58 even to 5th place. In the 1956/57 season he was the league's safest penalty taker with six converted penalties .

In the summer of 1958 Olympique Marseille got him , which however had to leave the upper house of football less than twelve months later as 20th and which, despite 20 Oliver goals in the second division, failed to immediately rise again as tenth in the table. Olympique then sold the attacker to the SCO Angers , with whom he played in midfield in the league for the next three years and once again reached the semi-finals for the Coupe de France in 1961/62 . In 1963/64 he moved back to the Mediterranean, and after a year in Division 2 at SC Toulon , which he still helped to promote, he moved from his most recently central midfield role to the coaching bench.

Stations

  • Idéal Sport Mostaganem (1950–1953)
  • Union Athlétique Sedan-Torcy (1953–1958, including 1953–1955 in D2)
  • Olympique Marseille (1958–1960, including 1959/60 in D2)
  • Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers (1960–1963, 68/10)
  • Sporting Club Toulon (1963/64, in D2)

National team

Between December 1953 and April 1958, Célestin Oliver played five games in the Equipe tricolore , in which he also scored three goals. In view of the competition on the half-forward positions (including Raymond Kopa , Roger Piantoni and Joseph Ujlaki ) it remained with sporadic missions; Although he was part of France's 1958 World Cup squad , he was never used for a minute at the finals in Sweden , and never again afterwards.

Coaching career

Oliver's new career as a coach followed seamlessly in terms of time and location at the station in Toulon : the amateur club SSMC from Miramas was his employer until 1967. In addition, he completed a sports teacher training before returning to the professional camp with several engagements: until 1972 he coached SM Caen , which he led into the 2nd division in 1970 , and in the summer of 1972 the first division team Stade Reims , which, however, took him to the end of September after only eight Point games dismissed for failure. 1974/75 followed a second division year with the US du Grand Boulogne ; then Célestin Oliver finally settled near Marseille and worked - interrupted by a year as coach of SC Toulon (1978/79, in Division 2) - at the Collège Grande Bastide as a teacher; there he set up a football course and later had a youth named Eric Cantona under his wing. He also died in Marseille a few weeks before his 81st birthday.

Palmarès as a player

  • French champion : Nothing
  • French cup winner : 1956 (and semi-finalist 1954, 1962)
  • 5 international matches, 3 goals
  • 203 top division appearances and 60 goals scored in Division 1, of which 99/38 for Sedan, 36/12 for Marseille and 68/10 for Angers

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
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès, pp. 116–118 and 372
  2. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 158
  3. ↑ Pécheral, p. 440
  4. ^ D1 data from 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.
  5. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 151 and 311f.
  6. ↑ Chaumier, p. 228; Pécheral, p. 440
  7. ↑ see the message on the website of the French Association

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personal data
SURNAME Oliver, Celestin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mostaganem
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2011
Place of death Marseille