Ernest Vaast

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Ernest Vaast (born October 28, 1922 in Paris , † April 10, 2011 in Balaruc-les-Bains ) was a French football player and coach .

In the club

The left winger was "despite his slightly crooked back and an expression on his face as if he were carrying the whole misery of the world on his shoulders", a fast and versatile attacker with an often enough "spectacular shot at full speed", whom Chaumier was the most talented and most effective French striker of the immediate post-war period, but who did not show his skills consistently. During the war and the German occupation , he first played for the FEC Levallois ; in the 1943/44 season, in which in France no club teams but regional selections fought for the (later only unofficial) "war championship", he belonged to the Équipe fédérale Paris-Capitale , which was third in Division 1 . From the summer of 1944 he played for the Racing Club de Paris , with whom he won his first title on May 6, 1945, two days before the end of the war: after a 3-0 win over Lille Olympique SC, he was the Racing Cup winner . Four weeks earlier, Ernest Vaast had also been appointed to the French national team for the first time (see below ) . In the championship , the capital city club mostly only reached the upper midfield ranks during these years, but Vaast was able to place himself twice among the best league chasers: in 1946/47 he appeared there with 18 hits in 13th place and in 1947/48 16 hits were enough for him for the 10th place. Space. But he was with Racing again in the French Cup final in May 1949 and this time - again against Lille, final score 5: 2 - with his goal to 4: 0 also contributed to the win of the Coupe de France .

With regard to the 1949/50 season, one reads occasionally the assertion that Vaast was part of Servette Genève's squad that year and had become the Swiss champion with it. This seems debatable but because he is in Servettes season have team cadres from 1948/49 to 1950/51 does not mention, especially Vaast on 14 May 1950 again stood with Racing Paris in the French Cup final, which this time with 0: 2 against Stade Reims lost went. On the other hand, he does not appear in a Racing team photo during this season. From 1951 to 1953 he played at the Stade Rennais Université Club , with which he was able to avoid relegation twice, and in 1953/54 another year with the second division Red Star . Often plagued by muscular injuries, he ended his professional career at the age of 31.

Stations

  • FEC Levallois
  • Équipe fédérale Paris-Capitale (1943/44)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1944–1951, from 1948 42 games / 15 goals in Division 1 )
    • disputed: during (part of?) the 1949/50 season at Servette Genève
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1951–1953, 44/8)
  • Red Star Olympique Audonies (1953/54, in D2)

In the national team

Between April 1945 and June 1949, Ernest Vaast played 15 international matches with the Èquipe tricolore , in which he scored 11 goals, including a three-point in Lisbon in 1947 against Portugal and twice against Czechoslovakia (1946) and Belgium (1947). Also in the two surprising successes against the "football teacher" England (1945 2: 2 in Wembley , 1946 2: 1 in Colombes ) he met once; He also prepared some goals for his strike partners like Heisserer , Prouff , Ben Barek and Baratte with his assists. With 0.73 goals per international match, he is still one of the most efficient goalscorers to ever wear the Bleus jersey .

Life after time as a player

After his time as a professional footballer, Ernest Vaast tried himself as a player-coach in the amateur camp, including in Bressuire , at AS Cherbourg (1956-1959) and US Saint-Georges-les-Ancizes. At the same time, he completed his training as a trainer, but according to Chaumier with such a poor qualification that “the doors of well-known clubs remained closed to him”. From 1968 to 1970 he worked as a trainer at AF Rodez ; further stations cannot be determined. Vaast died in Balaruc-les-Bains at the age of 89 .

Palmarès

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-958-3
  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Quotes and evaluation from Chaumier, p. 301
  2. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 145
  3. Guillet / Laforge (as above), pp. 146–154
  4. eg. Ernest Vaast in French-speaking Wikipedia fff.fr
  5. super-servette.ch
  6. L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 361-366; Beaudet, p. 195
  7. ^ Photo in Beaudet, p. 61
  8. ↑ Mission data based on 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.
  9. Chaumier, p. 301
  10. see the announcement of April 12, 2011 on the Midi Libre website