François Bourbotte

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Bourbotte (left) before the 1941 cup final

François Bourbotte (born February 24, 1913 in Loison-sous-Lens , Pas-de-Calais , † December 15, 1972 ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

Bourbotte was trained "in the rough school" of ES Bully , for whose league eleven he ran from 1932 at the latest. In the 1932/33 season, Bully finished third in the Ligue du Nord , a regional group of the second highest league level at the time, behind US Tourcoing and RC Lens . 1933, the tall and skinny, angular and enthusiastic hired right outer or center half when Erstdivisionär SC Fives on. François Bourbotte also kept his job as a postal worker in Roubaix at - not an isolated case in the early days of professionalism - which is why he was often unable to train with the team. His first season ended with the runner-up . In Division 1 , the Liller Vorstädter then always occupied places between 8 and 12 until 1939; Bourbotte belonged with Émilien Méresse , the Austrian Franz Czernicky and the German Karl Dahlheimer to the legendary défense de fer ("iron defense"), which kept the backs of the offensive players Norbert Van Caeneghem , Ernest Libérati and André Cheuva . Since the defender was spared major injuries during his career, he played almost all compulsory games of his teams, for example between 1934 and 1937 for Fives 85 of 90 championship games. In early 1937 he also became a national player (see below) . In the French cup competition , the Fivois reached the semi-finals three times - and missed the final every time: 1935 3-0 against Stade Rennais UC , in 1938 with a 0-1 after extra time against FC Metz and in 1939 0-1 against Racing Paris .

Because of the outbreak of war and the subsequent German occupation of France - the extreme north of the country belonged to the zone interdite , the "forbidden zone" (see here ) - from 1939 to 1942 there was no participation of the northern clubs in the "war championships", which are now only unofficial. applicable point game rounds. Only the participation in the national cup competition for the Coupe Charles Simon was possible for them, and François Bourbotte, meanwhile captain of his team, was in it for the first time in 1941 in the final, in which Fives lost 2-0 to Girondins Bordeaux . In 1942/43 he won the Coupe des Provinces françaises with the northern French eleven (" Flandres ") after 3-1 victory over the Champagne , a competition similar to the German Federal Cup between the World Wars, in which professional footballers west of the Rhine were also allowed to participate. When regional selections were formed from the professional clubs in the 1943/44 season and the players had to become "state employees", he joined the Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres and was runner-up with her.

In 1944, SC Fives had to merge with local rivals Olympique Lille for financial reasons , for whom Bourbotte, like numerous other SCF teammates, played the following two years and also there despite well-known teammates such as Julien Darui , Joseph Jadrejak , René Bihel , Jean Baratte , Marceau Somerlinck , Roger Vandooren or Jacques Grimonpon was captain . In May 1945 the LOSC, which had been strengthened in this way, reached the cup final, but had no chance against Racing Paris at 3-0. The following year, however, Lille won the championship and the cup, and therefore also the doublé . After the cup final (4-2 over Red Star ), François Bourbotte - “even more blond, even paler than usual, deeply moved and trembling all over” - accepted the trophy from the hands of the President of the Provisional State Government , Félix Gouin .

Half a year after this triumph, however, there was a break with Lille. On the way back from a league game in Paris, the club cashier refused to pay the approximately 300  francs bill for the food and aperitifs consumed by the players in the dining car on their train . During the subsequent altercation, the team captain accused the club of having set up a fake balance sheet, and pushed the sentence "club officials are useless - without it we would be better off" after. President Louis Henno suspended Bourbotte's contract the next day; in view of his “great merits” and only after the player had apologized in writing did the “ Louis XIX. “Said Henno Bourbotte the clearance for another club. This then went as a player-coach for the JAA, an amateur club from Armentières .

Stations

  • Étoile Sportive de Bully (until 1933, as a teenager and amateur)
  • Sporting Club Fivois (1933-1943)
  • Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres (1943/44)
  • Lille Olympique SC (1944 – November 1946)
  • Jeunesse Athlétique Armentiéroise (1947–1950 ?, as player-coach below D2)

In the national team

François Bourbotte played 17 full internationals for France between February 1937 and March 1942 . After his debut against Belgium , he was also included in the following eight games, including the 0: 4 in Stuttgart against Germany and the 2-1 home win over Switzerland , in these two games in the middle position. In 1938 he was therefore in the French squad for the World Cup in his own country ; Surprisingly, Jean Bastien , Gusti Jordan and Raoul Diagne were used instead of his in the runner row in the two World Cup games of the Bleus . Immediately after this personal disappointment, Bourbotte also played the next eight international matches in a row; the last three of these encounters in January 1940 and March 1942 (the penultimate again against Switzerland) took place under the difficult conditions of war and occupation of the country. When the international matches of the Équipe tricolore came back from December 1944 , it was first Jules Bigot , who also played for ES Bully and Lille Olympique , then Jean-Claude Samuel , Jean Prouff and Antoine Cuissard , who as right wing runners a return to Bourbotte National team prevented.

Coaching career

After his time in Armentières, where he also ran a bar-tabac , François Bourbotte coached the US Boulogne from 1950 to 1956 , which he led in the 1953 and 1954 Cup as a fourth division team in the round of the best 64 teams. In 1972 he died at the age of only 59.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1946 (and runner-up in 1934, 1944 [unofficial title])
  • French cup winner: 1946, 1947 [without final game] (and finalist 1941, 1945)
  • 17 full international matches (no hit) for France
  • Coupe des Provinces françaises winner : 1943

literature

  • Almanach du football éd. 1932/33. Paris 1933; ditto éd. 1933/34 1934/35, 1935/36, 1936/37, 1944/45
  • 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
  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • 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: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Almanach 1932/33, p. 147; Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 122f. A team photo of ES Bully from this season can be found at Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 54; Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 22
  3. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 87ff.
  4. ↑ Almanach 1934/35, p. 72; Almanach 1935/36, p. 45; Almanach 1936/37, p. 44. The data for the other seasons are not yet available - with the exception of 1945/46, in which he played all 34 games in Division 1 and all cup fixtures for Lille OSC (see Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 147).
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 351–355
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 32 and 357
  7. ↑ A photo of Bourbotte from the final can be found in Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 23
  8. ↑ After Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 104, Bourbotte expressed himself in a newspaper in the summer of 1943 critical of this measure by the Vichy government and asked whether he could be a state post office worker and a state-paid footballer at the same time.
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 361
  10. ↑ so L'Équipe of May 27, 1946, quoted in in L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 32, similarly also Cornu, p. 83
  11. ↑ Cornu, p. 85
  12. ↑ Chaumier, p. 53
  13. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 306-310.
  14. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 22
  15. ↑ see also http://www.rsssf.com/players/trainers-fran-clubs.html#b
  16. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 369/370

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personal data
SURNAME Bourbotte, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Loison-sous-Lens
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1972