César Ruminski

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César Jean Ruminski (born June 13, 1924 in Waziers , Département Nord , † May 13, 2009 in Lisieux ) was a French football player .

In the club

The goalkeeper was born as the son of a Polish miner in the northern French coal mine near Douai . During the World War and the occupation of France, he lived in Reims , where he played as a teenager for the amateur club Olympique and from 1942 for Stade Reims . At Stade, however, he couldn't get past goalkeeper Jacques Favre and didn't make a single first division appearance . There are different details about the timing of his club change in the first post-war years: in 1945 or 1946 he came to his first professional assignments with the second division team SA Douai and switched to league rivals Le Havre AC either in 1947 or 1949 .

With the traditional Norman club, the promotion to Division 1 only succeeded in 1950. Then, however, Ruminski was within reach of his first title win: in 1950/51 five teams were at the top of the final table, which were only a point apart; Le Hac finished the season in third place. Incidentally, the goalkeeper was a sure-fire penalty taker , which he was able to prove in point games at this club.

But he only achieved countable successes from 1952 at Lille OSC , one of the most successful clubs of the first post-war decade in France; whose team squad was "peppered" with national players, and César Ruminski played there alongside Jean Baratte , Guillaume Bieganski , Marceau Somerlinck , Jean Vincent , André Strappe and Yvon Douis, among others . With the LOSC he won the national cup in 1953 , where he was also in the final (2-1 winner against FC Nancy ) - his counterpart at the Lorraine was Jacques Favre ... In addition, Ruminski received his first appointment during the first half of the season National team. In the following season 1953/54 he was champion with Lille ; the goalkeeper had to reach behind him only 22 times in 34 point games. Another year later he won his second cup, even if only nominally, because Jean Van Gool guarded the goal of the OSC not only in the final (5-2 over Girondins Bordeaux ) . The athletic Ruminski, whose “trademark” was his great courage, with which he threw himself into the fray of the penalty area and often threw himself at the feet of opposing strikers, paid for this quality with numerous injuries, which meant that the player was already an active player 31 year old finished.

Club stations

  • Olympique de Reims (1941/42, as a teenager)
  • Stade de Reims (1942–1945 or 1946)
  • Sporting Amical Douaisien (1945 or 1946 to 1947 or 1949)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association (1947 or 1949–1952, of which only 1950–1952 in D1)
  • Lille Olympique SC (1952–1955)

In the national team

Between October 1952 and May 1954, César Ruminski played 7 A-internationals (no own goal) with the Équipe tricolore . He made his debut in a 3-1 win against Germany ; In this encounter, another newcomer of Polish descent, Raymond Kopaszewski , wore the French blue jersey for the first time. 14 days later Ruminski was also part of the French team, which defeated Austria 2-1 in Vienna . He was also used in an unofficial international match, the Watersnoodwedstrijd against Dutch professional footballers on March 12, 1953. He was in the French squad at the 1954 World Cup , but was not used in Switzerland; National coach Pibarot and the association's selection committee relied on François Remetter instead , who subsequently remained number 1 in the Bleus .

Life after time as a player

César Ruminski settled in Lisieux , where he ran a small retail business and also worked as a physical education teacher for school children. He died there in 2009, exactly one month before his 85th birthday.

Palmarès

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6

Remarks

  1. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , pp. 249-253.
  2. ↑ According to Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 113, he played for Douai from 1945 to 1949, according to the website of the French association only in the 1946/47 season; on the latter, however, his place of birth is also given incorrectly.
  3. ↑ Chaumier, p. 267
  4. ↑ Chaumier, pp. 266/267
  5. ↑ Report to France Football ( Memento des original of May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.francefootball.fr
  6. ↑ First division appearances according to 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Ruminski, César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruminski, César Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Waziers , North Department
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2009
Place of death Lisieux