Francis Coché

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Francis-Pierre Coché (born August 5, 1924 in Libourne , † May 2010 in Martillac ), usually only Francis Coché for short , was a French football coach and official.

The national coach

Francis Coché had already held various functions in the south-west of France's regional division of the FFF football association for many years before the FFF appointed him a member of a commission in March 1977 to develop proposals for improving the structures in French women's football . When the coach of the French national women's football team , Pierre Geoffroy , fell out with the association, Coché appointed Geoffroy's successor in July 1978. Francis Coché was by no means an unconditional advocate of women's football; rather, at the end of the 1970s, he had hoped that "the girls who practice this sport would later, as wives and mothers, support their sons' enthusiasm for football [sic!] with understanding" .

In this early phase of women's football, which was only legalized in France in 1970, the Bleues - the national team's common name due to their blue jerseys - played very few games a year and were not particularly successful. Coché's longest defeat-free series consisted of one win and five draws between May 7, 1983 and February 24, 1985. This was also due to the fact that the FFF, for example, only had 18,315 active players in the 1979/80 season and within the association - so it saw it Not only Marilou Duringer , who was already head of the national team at away games under Coché - there was an “absolute lack of interest in topics related to women's football”.

The coach led the French women at the first European championship , which was held from 1982 to 1984 and has not yet been decided in a final round in any country. France finished second behind Italy in their group and missed the semi-finals. In these six games, Coché used a total of 19 players (see the French line-up ).

Coché introduced courses for national players, but these took place only every two years and also had no significant success. On the other hand, the “very authoritarian, strict and demanding trainer” recognized early on that better physical and tactical training than usual was required in the clubs . However, since he himself had not previously been active as a player (he had not got beyond the level of the regional amateur league operation in the Division d'Honneur ) or as a coach at a high level, some national players like Bernadette Constantin welcomed Coché's replacement in May 1987 Aimé Mignot : “Under Aimé it was finally real football; we started to learn about tactics and technique. That represented a real revolution in the history of the équipe de France . "

Francis Coché died at the age of 85 in 2010 in his Aquitaine homeland.

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Place of death according to avis-de-deces.net of May 10, 2010
  2. ^ Article "Francis Coché:" L'équipe nationale doit inciter à la pratique "" in Le football au féminin, no. 1 (1983), here p. 10
  3. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 43f.
  4. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 219
  5. ↑ see the comparative figures from November 22, 2011 on footofeminin.fr
  6. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 38
  7. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 224
  8. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 236
  9. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 110 and 112ff.
  10. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 110
  11. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 129
  12. ↑ see the death notice on the association's website
personal data
SURNAME Coché, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coché, Francis-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Libourne
DATE OF DEATH May 2010
Place of death Martillac