Gilbert Le Chenadec

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Gilbert Le Chenadec (born July 13, 1938 in Languidic , Morbihan Department ) is a former French football player and coach .

Player career

Gilbert Le Chenadec played as a child and adolescent for the amateur club US Montagnarde in his home town of Inzinzac-Lochrist . From 1956 on, he represented the colors of the neighboring FC Lorient , which at that time was also at home in the amateur field. Two years later he was brought in by FC Nantes , where he was integrated into the second division team from 1961 and - especially after the new coach José Arribas implemented his concept of a variable, attractive attacking football from 1960 - developed into an "intelligent central defender ", who had the mixture of "defensive solidity and playfulness that is required in an offensive system". In the early days, Le Chenadec played alongside “seasoned professionals” such as Thadée Cisowski , Pierre Grillet or André Strappe , from whose experiences the youngster was able to learn a lot, but who only earned their bread for a short time in Nantes. For this, a young team grew up there, whose structure consisted of a number of almost the same age, some of whom had known each other for years; these included Daniel Éon , Jean-Claude Suaudeau , Philippe Gondet , Bernard Blanchet , Gabriel De Michèle and Gilbert Le Chenadec, who got a professional contract in 1962. His task was characterized by coach Arribas in 1963:

“It guarantees the flexibility of our game system. [Especially in away games] he has to do more defensive work. But at the same time he has to stimulate our attacking game and distribute the balls to our strikers. "

At the end of the 1962/63 season, the "Canaris" - until the 21st century the common name of the team in yellow jerseys - occupied second place and rose to the top division for the first time in the club's history . This attracted further young talents like Robert Budzynski - in the following years Le Chenadec's partner at the center of the back four - and Jacques Simon , plus two experienced professionals with Ramón Muller and Robert Siatka , to the Loire , and after the team started their first season Had completed a respectable eighth place, she surprisingly won the league title in 1965 . After the end of the season, France Football magazine rated Nantes' individual players and called Gilbert Le Chenadec "an example of extraordinary consistency". A year later , the Canaris were able to defend this title by a large margin, and Le Chenadec almost added winning the national cup to the double success ; in the final , which Nantes practically had to contest ten times for an hour - Muller injured himself early, was not allowed to be substituted and hobbled along the sideline - opponents Racing Strasbourg then won 1-0. In 1967 Le Chenadec was with FC Nantes only runner-up behind AS Saint-Étienne , but national coach Just Fontaine nominated him for the first time for the French senior team . After the 2: 4 against the USSR the coach ended his short career at the top of the Bleus , and the defender was not called up again.

Immediately afterwards, Le Chenadec moved to league rivals FC Metz after 129 league games in Division 1 , in which he had scored nine goals . There he played in the top third of the table in the following two years and was third in his second season with the Lorraine team , but the team did not come within reach of a title. From 1969 he ran for AS Angoulême , with whom he was fourth in the championship ten months later. When the ASA narrowly escaped relegation in the following season, the ambitious second division Racing Paris-Joinville brought him , who, however, even had to relegate in 1972. Gilbert Le Chenadec then ended his professional career after a total of 252 first (14 hits) and 77 second division appearances (one goal), in which he also made seven games in European club competitions. For FC Nantes he was in the National Champions Cup in all six games in 1965/66 and 1966/67 against Partizan Belgrade , KR Reykjavik and Glasgow Celtic in the field, and the only even with Angoulêmes international appearance - in the 1970-71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup  - he denied one of the two games against Vitória Guimarães .

Stations

  • 1951–1956: US Montagnarde (as a youth)
  • 1956–1958: FC Lorient (amateur)
  • 1958–1967: FC Nantes (in the league team from 1961, in D2 until 1963)
  • 1967–1969: FC Metz
  • 1969–1971: AS Angoulême
  • 1971/72: Racing Paris-Joinville (in D2)

Activities after being a professional

Gilbert Le Chenadec returned to Brittany and to his first club; at the US Montagnarde he was even as a 40-year-old player-coach, still actively involved in multiple promotions up to the third division (in 1979/80 for the first time). His main job was to represent the sportswear manufacturer Le Coq Sportif . Le Chenadec now lives as a pensioner in Sucé-sur-Erdre and trained the league team of a lower-class amateur club from Guenruet until at least 2004 .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1965, 1966 (and runner-up in 1967)
  • French Cup: 1966 finalist

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • 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
  • Pierre Minier: 1943-2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1

Web links

  • Data sheet on the website of the French Football Association

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cadiou, p. 252
  2. ↑ Minier, p. 34
  3. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 188
  4. ↑ Minier, p. 265
  5. ↑ Minier, p. 44
  6. ↑ Minier, p. 62
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 382
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 118
  9. ↑ Figures on the first division years according to 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., on the second division years according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 287 and 328
  11. ^ Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1 , pp. 256f.
personal data
SURNAME Le Chenadec, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Languidic , Morbihan department