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Guillaume "Willy" Lieb (born February 13, 1904 in Bischweiler ; † May 13, 1978 ) was a French football player .

Club career

Guillaume Lieb, who was born in what was then the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , joined FC Bischwiller , the club in his home municipality, as a teenager . As early as 1920, when he was just 16, he was part of the men's team at a Whitsun tournament in Montpellier . In the years that followed, the FC developed into one of the strongest football teams in the French region again after the end of the war . The season 1924/25 he closed as first in the table of the local Division d'Honneurfrom, and thereby Lieb won his first title as Alsace champion. In this championship team there were only players who had emerged from the youth teams of the club; FCB received an award from the magazine L'Auto as “the most deserving of all regional champions of the season”. "Willy", as Lieb is mostly called into the 21st century west of the Rhine , soon after reaching the age of majority also made it to the national player this season (see below) . At a time when there was no national league in France, the press often referred to the winner of the national cup competition as the French champion, and FC Bischwiller reached the main round in it every season from 1922 to 1926 . There, however, the team was mostly eliminated in the thirty-second finals; only in the 1923/24 season she made it, after a 3-2 win at the traditional Club Français Paris , to the sixteenth-finals, in which she was defeated Racing Roubaix only in a replay.

Guillaume Lieb went to Lyon in 1926 because his national team mate and "friend François Hugues " is said to have persuaded him to do so. Whether he played there for the strongest club in town at the time, the FCL , or for another - LOU and the Sports Athlétiques Lyon are also mentioned in the sources - has not yet been clearly established. After only one year, the “vicious outside runner ”, who mostly came over the right side, possessed defensive and offensive qualities and was “the epitome of elegance”, moved back to Alsace, but no longer to Lower , but to Mulhouse in Upper Alsace . Lieb's first game for FC Mulhouse was a friendly match at Le Havre AC in mid-April 1927.

The team from the Stade Bourtzwiller developed in the following years into one of the strongest French teams of the era; At the end of the 1920s there were up to seven internationals in their ranks - Pierre Hornus , Pierre Korb , Marcel Kauffmann , Maurice Banide , goalkeeper Émile Friess , the Swiss Oskar Hürzeler and Willy Lieb. Mulhouse won the Alsace championship five times in a row - from 1927/28 to 1931/32 - and the team also successfully represented the region in the national cup. In the early 1930s she was eliminated three times in a row in the second main round, the round of sixteen (1931, 1932 and 1933), but in 1929 and 1930 she made it to the second round; and especially in 1928 it caused a nationwide sensation when the players around Willy Lieb it as the only "provincial eleven" - in centralized France, all areas outside the capital region around Paris were considered a province in the derogatory sense  - made it to the semifinals, where they failed at CA Paris . His greatest success in club football, however, came in the 1931/32 season; In this last year, before the introduction of a national professional league , the FCM took part in the second draw of the competition for the Coupe Sochaux (also known as the Coupe Peugeot after the sponsor of the Victory Cup), the great acceptance of which by the football-loving audience the final impetus for the creation the Division 1 was. And in that, FC Mulhouse prevailed 4-2 in the final against Stade Français Paris . The club also went the way into professional football; Lieb was still used in the following season , but at the end of the season his team was only tenth in the table in Group A and had to be relegated at the bottom.

Guillaume Lieb then ended his career and settled permanently in Mulhouse. There he worked until 1974 as the manager of a restaurant that bore his name. He died four years after he retired.

Stations

  • FC Bischwiller: at least 1920–1926
  • (probably FC) Lyon: 1926/27
  • FC Mulhouse: 1927-1933, 1932/33 in D1

In the national team

“Willy” Lieb played a total of 15 international A matches for France between April 1925 and April 1929 and scored two goals in them. Unlike in his clubs, he was set up by the association selection committee in all encounters as a half-striker , thirteen times on half right and twice on half left. He also made 20 appearances in the Alsace selection, six games in the military and three in the B national team. He made his debut for the French A-Elf, after they had recently experienced their "disaster in Turin" (0: 7 against Italy ), together with three other newcomers against the Austrians and "saved France from worse in this 0: 4"; of these four debutants, he was the only one who was regularly considered in the blue dress afterwards.

Lieb played another match against Austria in May 1926, and he was also used in two encounters against Switzerland (April 1926 and March 1928). In the second game against the Swiss he gave the signal for the Bleus to catch up with his goal to make it 4-1 , but it remained unfinished - the final score was 4: 3 for Switzerland. Lieb was also on the pitch in three consecutive, particularly high defeats in May and June 1927: the 1: 4 against Spain , the 0: 6 against England - each at the home Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes  - and the 1:13 in Budapest against Hungary . Against the Magyars , however, he was also present in the revenge in early 1929, in which he scored the goal with a hand penalty to make it 3-0. However, Guillaume Lieb's last appearance in the blue dress ended with a devastating result for his team (1: 8 against Spain in Saragossa ).

Palmarès

  • Alsatian master 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932
  • Winner of the Coupe Sochaux 1932
  • Cup semi-finalist 1928
  • 15 international matches, 2 goals

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
  • Collectif (Ed .: Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association [LAFA]): 100 ans de football en Alsace. Édito, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-911219-13-9
  • Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ A b Collectif [LAFA], Volume 1, p. 130
  2. ↑ Collectif [LAFA], Volume 5, p. 316
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, pp. 338-342
  4. ↑ a b c d Collectif [LAFA], Volume 5, p. 276
  5. ↑ FCL in L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 382, ​​and the data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ); LOU according to Lieb's data sheet at the Fédération Française de Football (see under web links ); SAL according to Collectif [LAFA], Volume 1, p. 131
  6. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 196
  7. ↑ a b Collectif [LAFA], Volume 5, p. 208
  8. ^ Collectif [LAFA], Volume 5, pp. 207 and 316
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, pp. 345-349
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 344
  11. ^ Collectif [LAFA], Volume 5, p. 277
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 375
  13. ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 108, there also a photo of the 1-0 victorious French team
  14. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 299
  15. ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 112, there also a photo of the French team
  16. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 300
personal data
SURNAME Dear Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear Willy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischwiller
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1978