Edmond Delfour

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RC Paris team 1936 - Delfour back row, second from right

Edmond Delfour (born November 1, 1907 in Ris-Orangis in what is now the Essonne department , † December 21, 1990 in Corsica ) was a French football player and coach .

player

Club career

The wiry half- forward Delfour came to the capital club Stade Français from the Paris area in the summer of 1928 , where the 20-year-old soon became a regular. During his first season at Stade Français he drew the attention of the football association's selection committee and made his debut as a national player (see below ). In 1929 he moved to local rivals Racing Club de France , where he stayed for eight years. There he became an  official professional footballer in 1932 - with the introduction of a professional league - and in 1936 he won the doublé ( national champion and cup winner ) in a team that included the two "Austro-French" "Rodolphe" Hiden and "Gusti" Jordan , the goal-threatening duo Veinante / Couard and the British Frederick Kennedy had other outstanding players in their ranks.

In the two years before the outbreak of war , he played in northern France for RC Roubaix ; There he ended his nine-year national team career, but also experienced a particularly dark sporting hour: the Roubaisiens landed at the end of the 1938/39 season on the last place in the table. Edmond Delfour then moved to Normandy for FC Rouen , where he played six successful years during the war and German occupation . In 1940 he won there the championship title of the northern group of the league, which is just as little an official title as the war championship in 1945, which the renewed northern first from Rouen celebrated after a 4-0 over the southern winner Lyon Olympique Universitaire . In 1941, 1942 and 1943 Delfour also finished second with this club in the north group. After the liberation of France, he returned to Paris and played another season in Division 1 for Red Star Olympique . At the end of it, his team made it to the final in the cup. This was lost to Lille OSC . The now 39-year-old Delfour did not take part in the final.

His particular strengths included technique, ball skill and an extraordinary condition, which enabled him to walk long distances on the field; Delfour was also not afraid to dribble around opponents , which the coaches no longer really liked during his playing days. Outside the stadium, he is described as a Filou and a mood cannon, which he often demonstrated during the then relatively long trips with his teams.

Stations

  • ES Viry-Châtillon
  • Draveil
  • ES Juvisy-sur-Orge
  • Stade Français Paris (1928/29)
  • RC Paris (1929–1937; Racing Club de France until 1932 )
  • RC Roubaix (1937-1939)
  • FC Rouen (1939–1945; in the 1943/44 season as regional team Équipe Fédérale Rouen-Normandie )
  • Red Star Olympique Paris (1945/46)

National team

Edmond Delfour played a total of 41 games for the Équipe tricolore between May 1929 and June 1938 , three of them during his time with Stade Français, 34 with Racing Paris and four for RC Roubaix. He scored two goals in these games and was also the team captain in twelve games. The international highlights include his participation in the first three world championships : at the tournaments in Uruguay , Italy and in his own country , Delfour played all six national team games; he also took part in the unofficial match, which the French lost 3-2 to Brazil on August 1, 1930, before they returned to Europe . With his 41st call, a home defeat against Italy , he set Jules Dewaquez's national player record, which was valid until then , but could not beat him. In June 1937 he was called up for the Western Europe selection, which was defeated 1: 3 in Amsterdam against the strong Central European team with their Austrian, Czech and Hungarian top performers.

Trainer

Delfour later worked as a trainer and had a particularly good reputation in Belgium; there he worked at KAA Gent , Royale Union Saint-Gilloise , Cercle Bruges (1958–1962) and the RFC Liège . In France he worked for Stade Français (for the first time at least in the 1952/53 season and again after 1963), Le Havre AC and finally SEC Bastia . In March 1953 he was in charge of a team of Dutch international professionals who played a benefit game (the so-called Watersnoodwedstrijd ) in favor of the victims of the Dutch storm flood on the French national team.

After 13 years of coaching he settled permanently in Corsica , where he ran the hotel of his son-in-law, the French ex-national keeper Dominique Colonna , in the Restonica Valley for a while. Once he was persuaded to return to the sidelines when the local amateur club US Corte asked him.

Edmond Delfour died in 1990 at the age of 83.

Palmarès as a player

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3
  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • 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
  • Pierre Delauney / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
  • Gérard Ejnès / L'Équipe: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • 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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personal data
SURNAME Delfour, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Ris-Orangis , Essonne department
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1990
Place of death in Corsica