Gaston Barreau

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Gaston Barreau (born December 7, 1883 in Levallois-Perret , † June 11, 1958 ibid) was a French football player and official. From November 1919 until his death he was one of the people in charge of the selection committee for the French national team and was led by the French Football Association from 1932 to 1956 as a Sélectionneur . In international statistics he is generally referred to as the national coach.

Player career

In the club

As an active Gaston Barreau played from 1898 to 1907 for the FEC Levallois , to which he returned after two years of stint with the Paris clubs Standard AC and Club Français . From 1909 to 1919 the midfielder played again in his hometown; During this time his twelve missions in the Équipe tricolore fell .

In the national team

On April 30, 1911 Barreau was for the first time in the French selection; in the 1: 7 defeat in Brussels against Belgium he was team captain. After an injury, he left the field in the 30th minute, but came back in the second half. After ten more encounters, he was not used again as captain until May 31, 1914. Also in this, his twelfth and last game for France, he was injured; Despite a broken shoulder a quarter of an hour before the end, he stayed on the field. Nevertheless, his team lost the match in Budapest against Hungary with 1: 5.

Functionary career

When the French Football Association was founded, a selection committee was set up that was responsible for the formation of the national team. Comité de sélection was the official name, from which the later narrowing of the term to Sélectionneur ("Selector") for the national coach developed. Barreau was a member of this committee as technical director, who was responsible for the game. He was always supported by a training manager, who, however, played a secondary role.

In 1930 the Bleus took part in the first world championship ; However, Barreau could not accompany his team to Uruguay due to professional obligations , coach Raoul Caudron replaced him there.

On February 24, 1936 he was temporarily appointed sole Sélectionneur , before a selection committee was created again in early 1945 and a permanently assigned coach was appointed in 1950; in the body Barreau remained until after the 1954 World Cup, however, the dominant figure. In this role, Paul Nicolas replaced him , although Barreau remained on the staff of the national team until he died in 1958 on the day of France 's group game against Yugoslavia. In total, he was responsible for 197 games of the Équipe tricolore in a leading position .

Some statisticians, including FIFA, list Barreau as the oldest "coach" in a World Cup finals. When group match in France against Mexico at the World Cup in 1954, after the Bleus despite a 3: 2 victory were eliminated, Barreau was 70 years and 194 days old. In contrast to functionary Barreau, Cesare Maldini , who as the trainer for Paraguay at the 2002 World Cup was only a few days younger when he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Germany , was a real coach .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Note in the RSSSF statistics for the 1930 World Cup , viewed on May 15, 2008
  2. ↑ cf. Did you know? , in FIFA Magazine , June / July 2006 Issue, p. 118; Online version (PDF; 1.8 MB) viewed on May 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Statistics ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Planet World Cup , sighted May 16, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.planetworldcup.com
personal data
SURNAME Barreau, Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Levallois-Perret
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1958
Place of death Levallois-Perret