CO Roubaix-Tourcoing

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The Club Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing, or CORT for short, was a French football club made up of Roubaix and Tourcoing , two neighboring cities in the North Department , right on the border with Belgium . Together with Lille , Wasquehal , Villeneuve-d'Ascq and other French and Belgian cities of Courtrai / Kortrijk and Mouscron / Moeskroen, these two form a cohesive built agglomeration , similar to the Ruhr area.

The club's colors were black, white and red; the league team played their home games from 1945 to 1947 in different stages in the stadiums of the clubs from which CORT had emerged (the Stade Amédée-Prouvost in Wattrelos , the interior of the cycling track in the Parc des Sports of Roubaix, the cycling fans as the goal of the one-day classic Paris– Roubaix is known, as well as the Stade Charles-Van-de-Weegaete in Tourcoing). From 1947/48 she was regularly at home in the first-mentioned stadium.

history

Immediately after the liberation and under the difficult conditions of the necessary reconstruction (this region was in the part of France occupied by Germany during the Second World War ), the leaders of several clubs decided to pool their footballing forces. The RC Roubaix merged in 1945 with its old rival Excelsior AC Roubaix , the US Tourcoing and the US Roubaix to form CO Roubaix-Tourcoing. This merger was successful almost immediately, came third in 1945/46 and surprisingly won the French championship in 1946/47, but was never able to repeat this success in the following years. In 1955 the club rose from the top division to the second division ; In 1957, US Tourcoing left the association (which nevertheless retained the "T" in its name) and in 1963 CORT returned its professional license. In 1970 the association was dissolved.

League affiliation and achievements

CORT played from 1945 to 1955 in Division 1 and had professional status until 1963.

Major players in the club

French national team

The number of international matches for the club and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets.

  • Roger Boury (1, 1952)
  • Julien Darui (18, 1945–1951) previously seven more international matches for two other clubs, 1949–1953 also CORT coach
  • Lazare Gianessi (7, 1952-1953) then seven more internationals for another club
  • Roger Vandooren (1, 1951) previously played three more internationals for another club

Other

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 2 (Mu-W), ISBN 2-913146-02-3
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-867-6

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