César Hector Gonzalès

Cesar Gonzales is a redirect to this article. For other people, see César González .

César Hector Gonzalès
Personnel
birthday	December 7, 1926
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	5th March 2016
Place of death	Nice ,  France
size	174 cm
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1951-1961	OGC Nice	296 (3)
1961-1963	FC Nantes	70 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964-1968	OGC Nice
1972-1973	Bourges FC
1973-1975	SCO Angers
1976-1977	FC Rouen
1981-1982	AAJ Blois
1985-1986	Ivory Coast
1 Only league games are given.

César Hector "Pancho" Gonzalès (born December 7, 1926 in Buenos Aires , † March 5, 2016 in Nice ) was a French football player and coach of Argentine origin.

Player career

Gonzalès grew up in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and began playing football there. In 1951 it was talent scouts from the French club RC Paris who discovered him and brought him to France, but ultimately he signed his first professional contract in the same year with competitor OGC Nice ; at Nice he was supposed to replace Roger Mindonnet in central defense , who had switched to FC Nancy . Gonzalès immediately became a regular in the team and, with Nice, not only defended the national championship title in the first division, but also made it to the national cup final in 1952 . Thanks to a 5-3 win against Girondins Bordeaux , the Argentinean player was involved in winning the championship and cup double. Subsequently, he lost his regular place due to the commitment of Antoine Cuissard and at the same time had to accept a crash of his club into the lower half of the table. In the following years there were several coach changes, so that Gonzalès was moved back into the first team when Nice won the cup again in 1954.

In 1955, Luis Carniglia, an Argentine team-mate, moved to the Aiglons coaching bench - the OGCN team and players are referred to as "young eagles" into the 21st century - who named his compatriot as team captain; in this position, Gonzalès led the team to the championship title during the season 1955/56. This brought a participation in the European Cup with it and enabled Gonzalès, who never played for a national team, his debut at international level; the team failed in the quarterfinals at the later title holder Real Madrid . Although Just Fontaine's departure in 1956 was followed by a tough period in the league, the club recovered quickly and won the championship one more time in 1959. For Gonzalès it was the last of three titles to which two cup wins came. The 1959/60 season was marked by a good performance in the European Cup, which again ended in the quarter-finals against Real Madrid, while in the league they were only in midfield and had to fight relegation in the following season.

After ten years and 296 first division games with three goals, the then 34-year-old player turned his back on Nice in 1961 and signed with second division club FC Nantes , who wanted to play for promotion. Gonzalès was set under coach José Arribas , but clearly failed in 1962 at the given goal. In the same year he and some teammates prevented the coach from being dismissed, which paid off in a second place in the table and the associated promotion in 1963. In the same year, however, the then 36-year-old decided to end his career and thus did not return to the top division.

He got his nickname "Pancho" in France after that of Ricardo "Pancho" González , a successful and popular tennis player in the early 1950s.

Coaching career

A year after the end of his career, the ex-professional was hired as a coach by his former club OGC Nice in 1964 in order to return to the top division. He succeeded in doing this in 1965, which was followed by two seasons in which he confidently held the class with the club. 1968 succeeded the jump to second place and thus the runner-up, which was, however, followed by a season 1968/69, which meant relegation for Nice; According to the poor results, Gonzalès was dismissed at the turn of the year 1968/69.

He stayed without work in football for some time until he was brought in by second division FC Bourges in 1972 to ensure relegation. He managed this and at the same time aroused the interest of the first division club SCO Angers ; there he was introduced in 1973 as the new coach. After a fourth place at the end of the 1973/74 season, he could not prevent relegation the following year and was accordingly dismissed in January 1975. In 1976 he found work at second division FC Rouen and led them to the first class in 1977. In the medium term, those responsible set themselves the European competition as a goal, but the team played against relegation, which is why Gonzalès was dismissed in October 1977. For the 1981/82 season he took over responsibility for the second-rate AAJ Blois , but could not keep it in the league and consequently lost his job. From 1985 to 1986 he coached the national team of Ivory Coast and reached third place at the 1986 African Cup ; then he gave up the coaching profession and went back to the OGC Nice, where he was one of the leaders of the club beyond 2000 despite his advanced age.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nice: "Pancho" Gonzalez est décédé
2. ^ César Hector Gonzalès , afterfooot.fr
3. ↑ Football: César Hector Gonzalès , footballdatabase.eu