Dominique Tedeschi

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Dominique Tedeschi (born June 17, 1953 in Carthage ) is a former French football player and coach . In the early years of modern women's football , she played internationally for France . As a trainer, she led the women of the VGA Saint-Maur to win the national championship title several times.

Player career

In the club

Exactly when Dominique Tedeschi, who was born in Tunisia , which at the time still belonged to French North Africa, came to mainland France is not clear from the available sources, nor is it clear when she started playing football in a club. By 1972 at the latest, she belonged to an amateur club from Cours-de-Pile , on the eastern outskirts of Bergerac ; there she was appointed to the French national team for the first time as a 17-year-old (see below) . From there, the midfielder moved to FC Bergerac in 1974 , with whom she immediately reached the finals of the national championship , which was held for the first time . In the semifinals, however, FCB failed to Aragao Sport Orléans , against whom the team from the Dordogne had won in their preliminary group.

A year later, Tedeschi and her teammates were again in the round of the last four womenships; this time it was defending champion Stade Reims who refused them a place in the final. Whether she was still active in 1976/77, when Bergerac was knocked out in the semi-finals for the third time in a row - again against Reims - cannot be said with certainty in view of the gaps with which the early decades of French women's football have been documented.

In the national team

Between September 1972 and May 1975 Dominique Tedeschi played five full international matches for France ; she did not score a goal in the national dress. The low number of their games under national coach Pierre Geoffroy is also due to the fact that in the early 1970s the French played a maximum of three international matches per year - which at the time only lasted 35 minutes twice.

The midfielder, who was one of the few non-rhymes in France's ranks, was used three times against Switzerland , once each against England and the Netherlands . All five games ended in a French defeat.

Coaching career

Dominique Tedeschi was one of the first three women in France who had successfully completed the football trainer training course of the Fédération Française de Football and thereby acquired a license with which they were allowed to train women's and men's teams. From 1980 she worked as head coach for the women at VGA Saint-Maur . At the VGA, she started with the intention of breaking the ongoing dominance of Stade Reims and AS Étrœungt , which from 1974 to 1982 all of the titles that were played in a mixture of group games and a final round in knockout mode had split up. At the end of the 1982/83 season , her team succeeded in this for the first time after a final against FCF Hénin-Beaumont , which was only decided on penalties , and for the coach this was "anything but a surprise, rather the result of several years of work". This success was also the beginning of the dominance of Tedeschi's women, who won three other French championships from 1985 to 1987 and also reached the final in 1984.

In 1987, the trainer took a two-year break. Saint-Maur's player Élisabeth Loisel took over her position before Tedeschi returned and promptly won her fifth title in 1990 and another runner-up a year later. It also led the VGA into the first French league , the Championnat National 1 A , which was newly introduced in the 1992/93 season , in which it took third place in the final classification - the last time that the club, which from 1998 only entered second class , placed in the upper third of the table. Exactly when Dominique Tedeschi will end her job in Saint-Maur and whether she has been a coach at another club after that cannot be determined at the moment.

Palmarès

as a player
  • French championship: semi-finalist 1975, 1976, possibly 1977
  • 5 full internationals, no goal for France
as a trainer
  • French champion: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990 (and runner-up in 1984, 1991)

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
  • Article “La VGA Saint-Maur: Les moyens de ses ambitions” in: Le football au féminin , no. 1, Ed. Nouveauté, Paris, January 1983

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article "La VGA Saint-Maur ..." (1983), p. 19
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 253f.
  3. ^ After Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , p. 246, which refers to the article "Ces dames au ballon rond" from November 14, 1981 in the Nouvel Observateur (as PDF) and as the first graduate Michèle Monier of Stade Reims indicates; according to Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 52, however, Tedeschi was the first of these.
  4. ↑ Article “La VGA Saint-Maur…” (1983), p. 18
  5. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 244
personal data
SURNAME Tedeschi, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Carthage , French North Africa