François Félix

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François Félix (born May 18, 1949 in Viviers ) is a former French football player who later also worked as a coach .

Career

François Félix played football as a youth for a club from Saint-Priest , in the Lyon region. At the age of just 19 he came to Olympique Lyon , where he was only a supplementary player under coach Aimé Mignot in the following three years. With Fleury Di Nallo , André Guy and - from 1969 - Bernard Lacombe and Serge Chiesa existed with the Gones ("Burschen" is the nickname of the Lyon teams used into the 21st century), especially on the offensive, strong competition for the young striker . Nevertheless, he played three of Lyons' four games in the Messestädte-Pokal in 1968/69 , scored the only goal against Vitória Setúbal Olympiques and was also in Olympique's starting line-up in the 1971 Cup final , which however then had to admit defeat to Stade Rennes UC 0-1. In the same summer, coach Jean Vincent brought François Félix to the SEC Bastia , and there, under Vincent's successor Pierre Cahuzac, he developed into one of the most dangerous attackers in the French first division , who was "difficult to get under control" due to his agility: 1971 / 72 scored 14 goals in the game, the following season it was even 17, making him sixth in the league hunter list . He has had a fighting spirit and has scored a number of goals with a diving header . However , like Lyon before , the Corsicans only ever finished in midfield in the respective final tables; after all, Félix and his team were in the final of the national cup again at the end of his first year there  - and after a 2-1 draw against Olympique Marseille , they only left the field as the “second winner”. Since Marseille had also won the championship , the SEC played in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1972/73 ; in the first round off against Atlético Madrid it was François Félix who managed Bastia's only goal. In the late summer of 1972 he won the Champions Challenge with Bastia , and he also scored a goal in a 5-2 win over Marseille; it would be his only title in his career.

In the summer of 1973, Paris FC signed the striker, but despite his 18 goals, the capital club was relegated at the end of the season and gave Félix to Olympique Nîmes . The team from the Gard finished fourth twelve months later in Division 1 , but in the winter break that followed, François Félix moved back to SEC Bastia, where he quickly became indispensable again. In the 1976/77 season he scored 21 league goals (6th place), the team finished third and qualified for the 1977/78 UEFA Cup . Pierre Cahuzac, the coach who is still working at Bastia, had a number of experienced players with the later national goalkeeper Pierrick Hiard , Claude Papi , Jacques Zimako , André Burkhard , Jean-François Larios , Johnny Rep and Félix, and his team surprised with a terrific one Parcours that took her as the third French club team after Stade Reims and AS Saint-Étienne to the final of a European competition. She won her first seven games against Sporting Lisbon , Newcastle United , AC Turin and FC Carl Zeiss Jena in a row, scoring 27 goals in the ten games up to the final and her striker “Fanfan” Félix had four of the five goals against Lisbon alone and two shot at 7-2 over Jena. In the first of the two finals against PSV Eindhoven (0-0), the young Moroccan Abdelkrim Merry, known as "Krimau", was given preference, especially since the later substitute Félix was still suffering from the consequences of a traffic accident suffered before the semi-final second leg against Grasshoppers Zurich , which also prevented his use in the 3-0 lost second leg.

Immediately after this European Cup, François Félix moved to SCO Angers in the summer of 1978 , where his first professional coach from Lyon days, Aimé Mignot, worked. The attacker stayed there for two years; However, despite Félix's goals - still 22 in 65 point games - Angers played more against relegation. At his last station, the AJ Auxerre , he came in 1980/81 due to an injury sustained at the beginning of the season due to a foul in a few games and ended his playing time there. He then worked in the coaching staff of Auxerre under Guy Roux until 1984 , then in nearby Tonnerre , before moving back to Corsica , where he was head coach of the FA Île-Rousse amateur club from Monticello from 1989 until its bankruptcy in 2008 .

Club stations as a player

  • until 1968: AS Saint-Priest (as a youth)
  • 1968–1971: Olympique Lyon (31 league games / 5 hits)
  • 1971–1973: SEC Bastia (74/31)
  • 1973/74: Paris FC (36/19 or 18)
  • 1974 – December 1975: Olympique Nîmes (44/10)
  • January 1976–1978: SEC Bastia (86/32)
  • 1978–1980: SCO Angers (65/22)
  • 1980/81: AJ Auxerre (5/1)

Palmarès

  • French cup finalist: 1971, 1972
  • UEFA Cup finalist: 1978
  • French Super Cup winner (Challenge des Champions) : 1972
  • 42nd place among the top scorers ever in the top French division with a total of 120 or 119 goals
  • 14 European Cup games, 8 goals (1968/69, 1972/73 and 1977/78)

literature

  • 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.
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Weinrich, p. 292
  2. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , pp. 110f.
  3. ↑ All information on Félix 'respective placements in this ranking comes from Guillet / Laforge, p. 168ff.
  4. ↑ a b see his biography at afterfoot.fr (under web links ), click on “Sa vie, son œuvre”
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 388
  6. ^ Weinrich, p. 386
  7. ↑ see the data sheet of the final at footballdatabase.eu
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 222/223
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 223
  10. ↑ see his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (under web links )
  11. ↑ a b 19 first division goals according to both footballdatabase.eu and Boisson / Vian; on the other hand, France Football ( "The great goal scorers of the French championship. They only had one goal." , January 4, 2011, p. 21) and Guillet / Laforge, p. 173, only scored 18 goals. This also explains the different total number of hits in his career (120 or 119).
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 225 and 251
personal data
SURNAME Félix, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Viviers , Ardèche department