Georges Winckelmans

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Winckelmans (bottom row, 1st from right) with the championship team in 1933

Georges Winckelmans (born July 14, 1910 in Lambersart ; † unknown) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

The 177 centimeter tall striker Winckelmans, who was mostly called up as a right winger, was in the squad of the northern French club Olympique Lille from 1929 . With this he played around 1930 in the Division d'Honneur as the highest regional amateur league and also took part in the national cup competition. When Division 1 was created as the nationwide first league in 1932 and founded professional football in France, he and his teammates were among the pioneers of the league. He took a permanent place in the top team from the start and managed to win the group with the team in the two-pronged league in the first year. In the final of the championship against AS Cannes , he was on the pitch, scored the goal to make it 3-1 and the decisive goal to make it 4-3. He was a member of the championship team from 1933, which included the first title holders in the times of paid football.

Following his only national title win, Winckelmans increasingly lost his role within the team and did not go beyond occasional missions during the 1934/35 season. In addition, the player, who, despite his role in the 1933 final, usually had little success as a goalscorer, could not score a single goal of the season. This led to his turning his back on Lille in 1935 and moving to local rivals RC Roubaix in the second division. With nine goals in the 1935/36 season, he set his personal best and thus had a share in the rise of his club in 1936. Nevertheless, he returned to Lille at the same time, where he continued to book regular appearances without being set . With the club he moved into the national cup final in 1939 , but was not on the pitch and had to accept a 3-1 defeat of his comrades against Racing Paris . When the Second World War began in the same year , the regular game operation came to a standstill and Winckelmanns ended his active career after 109 first division games with 21 goals and 22 second division games with nine goals.

Coaching career

In 1947 Winckelmans returned to the professional field when he was hired as a coach at the first division club CO Roubaix-Tourcoing, which had emerged from his ex-club RC Roubaix . After a year with an eighth place in the table, he moved to league rivals SO Montpellier in 1948 , where he remained in office until the club's relegation in 1950. After that, he did not take on another coaching post in the upper leagues.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ season 1932/1933 , pari-et-gagne.com
  2. ↑ Georges Winckelmans - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  3. ↑ Football: Georges Winckelmans , footballdatabase.eu
personal data
SURNAME Winckelmans, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lambersart , France
DATE OF DEATH after 1950