Charles Griffiths
| Charles Griffiths | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 1882 | |
| place of birth | Rugby or Shropshire , England | |
| date of death | May 1936 | |
| Place of death | England | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Luton Town | ||
| AFC Barrow | ||
| Preston North End | ||
| -1907 | Lincoln City | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1909– | Borussia Monchengladbach | |
| 1911 | Karlsruhe FV | |
| 1911-1912 | FC Bayern Munich | |
| 1912-1914 | Stuttgart Kickers | |
| 1920 | Be Quick Groningen | |
| 1920 | Belgium (supervisory staff) | |
| 1920-1922 | Vitesse Arnhem | |
| 1922-1923 | Union St. Gilloise | |
| 1924 | France | |
| Olympique Marseille | ||
| RC Roubaix | ||
| AS Ronse | ||
| Olympique Lillois | ||
| -1933 | Excelsior AC Roubaix | |
| 1933-1935 | Union St. Gilloise | |
| 1935–193? | Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Charles Griffiths (* 1882 in Rugby or Shropshire , † May 1936 in England ) was an English football player and coach .
Player career
Griffiths played as a striker for Luton Town , Barrow AFC , Preston North End and came in November 1907 for Lincoln City for a use in the Football League Second Division . In January 1904, the Barnsley-born striker was reported to have been signed by Coventry City and previously played for Luton, St. Helens and Oswestry. Before coaching Germany, he lived in Oswestry and was known in Shropshire regional football .
Coaching career
societies
Aware of the fact that they failed in the final round of the South German Championship at the Karlsruhe FV in 1910 and 1911 , the Bayern leadership decided to hire a coach from the motherland of football. It was based on the Karlsruher FV, who had become German champion under William Townley in 1910 and with Charles Griffiths, who had been in Germany since 1909 and had his first coaching experience at Borussia Mönchengladbach , had also had a trainer from England since April 1911 . This was done on the advice of Dr. Angelo Knorr , then President of FC Bayern Munich, was initially employed on a trial basis as a Bayern coach at the beginning of August of the same year and - after he managed to convince all skeptics within a week - as the result of the extraordinary general meeting - as the first full-time coach on August 16, 1911 employed. After missing the Bavarian Championship in 1912 and the associated qualification for participation in the finals for the South German Championship, the contract with Griffiths was terminated on April 6, 1912 after only seven months.
Griffiths signed an employment contract with the Stuttgarter Kickers just five days later , with whom he was both Württemberg champion and South German champion at the end of the season . In his second season he won the Württemberg Championship again . With the outbreak of World War I , Griffiths returned to rugby.
After the end of the war, Griffiths worked in the Netherlands from 1920 to 1922 . At first he looked after Be Quick Groningen , the team won the Dutch championship title in 1920 . He then took over the coaching position at the first division club Vitesse Arnheim ; In his last coaching year, the club rose to the second division and under his successor Robert William Jefferson in 1923 again.
Griffiths was also successful that year, after his first season in Belgium ; he won the championship in 1923 with Union Saint-Gilloise , the eighth of the club overall. During his second coaching activity, 1933 to 1935, he won the championship with the team in both 1934 and 1935 and also set a record of 60 unbeaten league games that is still valid today. In the meantime he had been active in France, where he won the Coupe de France in 1933 with Excelsior AC Roubaix in the local derby against RC Roubaix . He later returned to France again to manage the Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin in 1935 .
After he had ended his career a few months earlier by leaving USVA and returned to England for retirement, he died there in May 1936.
National team
In 1920 Griffiths was part of the supervisory staff when the Belgian national team won the gold medal in the soccer competition of the Olympic Games after abandoning the final against Czechoslovakia . In protest against some of the decisions made by referee John Lewis , the Czechoslovak players left the pitch before the end of the first half after a 2-0 intermediate result in favor of the host Belgians, whereupon he ended the game prematurely.
In 1924 he coached the national team of France , with which he took part in the Olympic football tournament from May 25 to June 9 and - after the 7-0 victory over Latvia in the round of 16 - with 1: 5 against the selection of Uruguay , the eventual Olympic champion , retired in the quarterfinals . In December 1933, Griffiths was part of the 30-person French delegation on the occasion of a friendly between the English and French national teams. In total, he worked as an association coach for the French association FFFA for seven years , but presumably mainly took care of coach training while the national team was looked after by a selection committee headed by Gaston Barreau .
Web links
- Charles Griffiths in the weltfussball.de database
- Portrait on mirror .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b lt. THE ENGLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL ARCHIVES , accessed on January 14, 2017
- ↑ Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 108 .
- ↑ Profiles . Lincoln City Archives. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. 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. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Sporting Notes . In: Nottingham Evening Post , January 22, 1904, p. 6. (paid link)
- ↑ a b Football Coach who has been well treated . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , August 29, 1914, p. 3. (paid link)
- ↑ a b Griffiths est dans nos murs . In: Le Ballon Rond , February 23, 1924, p. 1.
- ↑ L'entraineur hereux . In: Le Miroir de sports , May 9, 1933, p. 303.
- ↑ a b Potins réginaux . In: L'Auto-vélo , May 30, 1936, p. 5.
- ^ French Team Arrive. . In: Aberdeen Journal , December 6, 1933, p. 4. (paid link)
- ↑ Les "Diables Rouges" de Belgique aux prices avec les "Dogues" lillois . In: Le Grand écho du Nord de la France , May 19, 1935, p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griffiths, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rugby or Shropshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1936 |