Dominique Dropsy
Dominique Dropsy (born December 9, 1951 in Leuze ; † October 7, 2015 ) was a French football player .
Club career
As a child and adolescent, the goalkeeper played for an amateur club in Hirson in his native Picardy . In 1970 he signed a contract with the US Valenciennes-Anzin , for which he guarded the goal for the first time in August 1972 in a division 1 game (1: 1 against Olympique Nîmes ) and defended this place until the end of the season. When Valenciennes had to relegate to the second division at the end of the 1972/73 season , the neighbor OSC Lille would have gladly committed him; Instead, Dominique Dropsy preferred to accept an offer from Racing Strasbourg .
With the Alsatians he experienced ups and downs in the following eleven years: In 1976 he was relegated to Division 2 with Strasbourg , but this time stayed with the club, which promptly returned to the top division a year later. The climber was third in the table in 1978 and even won the championship a year later, in the 1978/79 season . In the national cup , however, Dropsy only made it to the semi-finals twice with this team - in the championship year and again in 1981 - and in the league too, Racing only finished in midfield until 1984. The goalkeeper was personally awarded the Étoile d'Or as the most constant player of the 1980/81 season . The strengths of the "talented model athlete" Dropsy lay in his catch safety, his precise kick and the calm that he radiated to the people in front. The biggest weakness was the control of the penalty area: he hesitated not infrequently when he intervened outside the six-yard area with high crosses.
After 372 first division games in 11 years at Strasbourg - corresponding to a season average of 34 appearances, which means that Dominique Dropsy was hardly injured once - the now 32-year-old moved to reigning champion Girondins Bordeaux in 1984 . In the following four seasons he made up for what he could only win once in terms of titles at his previous clubs: two championships each (1985 and 1987, plus the runner-up in 1988) and two victories in the Cup, the Coupe de France (1986 and 1987 ), whereby the double success in 1987 brought the Girondins and Dropsy personally also the double . Bordeaux won both cup finals against Olympique Marseille (2-1 aet and 2-0), and the secret of the club's success can be explained by the names of Dropsy's teammates: Coach Aimé Jacquet offered Patrick in the finals, among others Battiston , Léonard Specht , Gernot Rohr , Alain Roche , René Girard , Jean Tigana , Alain Giresse , Bernard Lacombe , Jean-Marc Ferreri , Uwe Reinders and Zlatko Vujović .
Also reached Dropsy twice the semi-final in European club competitions: 1985 meant in Europe Champions Cup defeat against Juventus (0: 3 in Turin, 2: 0 on home soil) that from 1987 ended the 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in Pokalsiegercup 1987 even Only in the penalty shootout further hopes of the Girondins. In particular, the narrow failure against the GDR team (Bordeaux initially lost 1-0 on their own pitch and won the second leg in the central stadium with the same result, but had the worse end in the subsequent penalty shoot-out with 5: 6) also hit the goalkeeper Years later still deep: “That was very, very bitter. We were the much better team - and? As a result, we had none of it. "
In contrast, his last season at Bordeaux was rather uneventful; However, Dominique Dropsy set a record of 596 games in Division 1 with his last league game at the end of April 1989 , which was only outbid five years later by another professional (goalkeeper Jean-Luc Ettori has played six more games) - and up to Dropsy's death still meant third place on the list of all-time French record players .
Stations
- Hirson
- Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin (1970–1973)
- Racing Club de Strasbourg (1973–1984, including 1976/77 in D2)
- Girondins de Bordeaux (1984-1989)
In the national team
Between June 1978 and May 1981 Dropsy played 17 full internationals for France . He made his debut - although actually only number 3 in the Bleus squad behind Baratelli and Bertrand-Demanes - during the 1978 World Cup in the last group game of the preliminary round (3-1 against Hungary ), which, however, only had statistical value because both teams had already retired. After this tournament, he prevailed as a regular goalkeeper under national coach Hidalgo , playing five of the six qualifying games for the 1980 European Championship and the first four games in the 1982 World Cup qualifying . In the published opinion, he was particularly accused of conceding a strange goal in the game against the Netherlands (March 1981, final score 0: 1) when a 30-meter shot by Arnold Mühren first hit the post and then jumped against Dropsy's neck and rolled into the gate.
Dominique Dropsy guarded the French goal three times against teams from German-speaking countries: against Luxembourg (3-1 in 1978, 3-0 in 1979) and against Germany in 1980 in their 4-1 defeat in Hanover . His last international match was against Brazil in 1981 (1: 3 in Prinzenpark ); then he replaced first Jean Castaneda and from the 1982 World Cup Jean-Luc Ettori in the national team.
Palmarès
- French champion: 1979, 1985, 1987 (and runner-up in 1988)
- French cup winner: 1986, 1987
- 17 full internationals for France (1978–1981); World Cup participant 1978
- 596 games in Division 1 , including 38 for Valenciennes, 372 for Strasbourg, 186 for Bordeaux
- 42 appearances in the European Cup competitions, 12 of them for Strasbourg and 30 for Bordeaux; Semi-finalist in the national championship cup 1985 and the cup winner cup 1987
- Winner of the Étoile d'Or 1980/81
Life after the player career
After leaving as an active player, Dropsy continued to work for Girondins Bordeaux, for example in the talent scouting of children and the implementation of holiday training camps for young people ( Cap Girondins , at times together with Gernot Rohr and Marius Trésor ). From 1990 to 1998 he took care of the goalkeeping training in Bordeaux's youth center Le Haillan and was a goalkeeping coach for the professionals until the 2010s. He not only had national goalkeepers like Ulrich Ramé under his wing, but also for a short time his son Damien, who, however, was unable to assert himself.
In March 2011 he was diagnosed with acute leukemia . A few months after a bone marrow transplant , he returned to the Girondins, but was not able to resume his work in May 2012 either. Dominique Dropsy died on October 7, 2015 as a result of this disease.
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
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X
Remarks
- ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 55
- ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 55
- ↑ Chaumier, p. 109
- ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , pp. 402/403
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 230ff., Quoted on p. 232
- ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp.
- ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-9519605-3-0 , pp. 336-340; Chaumier, p. 109
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 235 and 324
- ↑ Chaumier, p. 109; similar to Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 55
- ↑ France Football of May 20, 2008, p. 29
- ↑ see the article "Dropsy, gardien de sa vie" ("Dropsy, guardian of his life") in France Football of May 15, 2012, pp. 30-33
- ↑ according to the article " Dominique Dropsy est décédé " from October 7, 2015 at bfmtv.com ( Radio Monte Carlo )
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dropsy, Dominique |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer goalkeeper |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leuze |
DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 2015 |