Gilbert Gress

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Gilbert Gress
Gilbert Gress.jpg
Gilbert Gress in 2009
Personnel
birthday December 17, 1941
place of birth Strasbourg ,  France
size 175 cm
position Winger and midfielder
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1966 Racing Strasbourg 156 (20)
1966-1970 VfB Stuttgart 149 (25)
1971-1973 Olympique Marseille 90 0(8)
1973-1975 Racing Strasbourg 69 0(6)
1975-1976 Neuchâtel Xamax
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1971 France 3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1975-1977 Neuchâtel Xamax
1977-1980 Racing Strasbourg
1980-1981 Club Bruges
1981-1990 Neuchâtel Xamax
1990-1991 Servette Geneva
1991-1994 Racing Strasbourg
1994-1997 Neuchâtel Xamax
1998-1999 Switzerland
2000-2001 FC Zurich
2002 FC Metz
2003 SK Sturm Graz
2004-2005 FC Sion
2007 FC Aarau
2009 Racing Strasbourg
1 Only league games are given.

Gilbert Gress (born December 17, 1941 in Strasbourg ) is a football coach and former football player . He has French and Swiss citizenship .

Club career

The winger and midfielder began his professional football career in his hometown at Racing Strasbourg , where fans soon referred to him as the “Angel of Meinau” ( l'Ange de la Meinau ; the Stade de la Meinau is the club's stadium). Shortly after his first game for Strasbourg's league team (May 1960), they relegated to the 2nd division and returned to Division 1 after a year . Racing played until Gress' move to the German Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart (1966) in the middle of the table and won the league cup in 1964 and the French club cup in 1966 . Gress was the first Frenchman in the Bundesliga. He won no title with the Swabians; During this time he was appointed to the French national team for the first time . During the 1970/71 season Gress returned to France and was twice French champion with Olympique Marseille . From 1973 to 1975 he played again for Racing, then moved to Neuchâtel Xamax in the Swiss National League A for a year and ended his playing career there in 1976.

Gress completed 290 first division games in France (201 for Strasbourg, 89 for Marseille) and scored 28 goals; in the Bundesliga he came to 149 appearances and 24 hits.

Palmarès

National player for France

In 1966 Gilbert Gress had reached the first high point of his career; Nevertheless, national coach Henri Guérin did not take the strong running and playful winger to the World Cup in England . Under the new coach Louis Dugauguez , he made his first appearance in the national team on September 27, 1967 (1: 5 against Germany in Berlin) - for the game in Poland ten days earlier, his Stuttgart club trainer Gunther Baumann had that Denied exemption. Overall, Gress played three times in the Équipe Tricolore in 1967, 1968 and 1971 , but remained without a goal.

Gress as a trainer

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Gress has been working as a football teacher since 1977, although he started this career in his native Strasbourg . With Racing Strasbourg he won the French championship in 1979. A year earlier he had been voted coach of the year . His popularity in Alsace was also reflected in the founding of a Gilbert Gress fan club. He also worked in Belgium, Austria and in Switzerland for more than 16 years, including twelve years at Neuchâtel Xamax . In this role, Gress won two national championships , the only ones to date in the modern club history of FC Xamax, which was merged in 1970. At the end of 1997, Gress was appointed national coach and coached the Swiss national team in 1998 and 1999 , narrowly missing out on qualifying for the European Football Championship in 2000 . An extension of the contract failed because of Gress' wage demand. As a coach at FC Zurich , he won the Swiss Cup in 2000 , but missed the qualification he wanted for the "final round" of the Swiss football championship, which still existed at the time. In 2002 he was a coach at FC Metz for a few months , but could no longer save the club from relegation to the second division.

Shortly before the end of the 2006/07 season, he briefly took over the coaching position at FC Aarau , which he led from the last to the penultimate rank of the highest league, so that Aarau could maintain the class on its own by means of the Barrage games. However, Gress left FC Aarau again for the new season - according to official reports, his demands regarding salary and new signings were reason enough not to renew the contract. In June 2009 Gress was again committed as a coach for the following season at Racing Strasbourg, which now played in the second division. There he was dismissed in August of the same year after only two games due to differences with the majority shareholder.

Trainer title

Media presence

In 2006 and 2008 Gilbert Gress trained a selection of celebrities for Swiss television as part of the program Der Match . During the soccer World Cup in 2006 and 2010 as well as the Euro 08 and Euro 12 , he was seen almost every day on Swiss television when he analyzed the current games. Together with the Swiss DJ and producer Sir Colin , he also recorded the song "Olé Gilbert Gress". Gress is also a prominent advertising medium for the Swiss soccer toto game TOTOgoal launched in 2009 .

Gress is a football expert at TV24 . He was a regular studio guest at Swiss television SRF Zwei and analyzed UEFA Champions League games together with Raphael Wicky (and Andy Egli ) . Gilbert Gress is also a testimonial for the Swiss eye optics chain McOptic .

Others

After his career, Gress, apart from coaching stations in his hometown as well as in Bruges and Metz, settled in Switzerland; he commutes between Strasbourg and Saint-Blaise NE . In 2015 and 2016, he was a member of the jury in the third and fourth seasons of the casting show The Greatest Swiss Talents on SRF 1 .

literature

  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux, ISBN 2-9519605-3-0
  • Gilbert Gress: Je n'avais encore rien dit - Conversations avec Eric Genetet. Eds. du Boulevard, 2005, ISBN 2-35211-001-7
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le Guide Français et International du Football 2005 . Ed. de Vecchi, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7328-6825-6
  • 30 years of the Bundesliga. In: Kicker special . Nuremberg 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Gress' longtime friend, neighbor and fellow player Robert Wurtz , who was born on December 16, 1941, the date of December 14th, which is given in almost all printed works, is incorrect ( "J'étais presque le frère jumeau de Gress, très exactement son aîné d'un jour. "  - Robert Wurtz: Au cœur du football. 25 ans d'arbitrage. Robert Laffont, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-221-06907-2 , p. 35); see also blick.ch
  2. ^ Zofinger Tagblatt dated June 6, 2007
  3. ↑ Gilbert Gress: "I should have stayed a national coach". In: az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Gilbert Gress, football trainer & TV expert on beruf-berUF.ch , May 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Gress, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football player and French-Swiss coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg