Henri Roessler

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Henri Roessler (born September 16, 1910 in Lauterburg / Alsace , † September 18, 1978 in Plan-de-Cuques / Bouches-du-Rhône ) was a French football player and coach .

As a player

Club career

Henri Roessler played at a young age for AS Strasbourg in his Alsatian homeland as a defender or outside runner . When exactly he switched to Red Star Olympique in Paris cannot be determined - possibly only after the start of the war and the occupation of France . In any case, in 1940/41 he belonged to the side of national players such as Julien Darui , Alfred Aston and Jules Vandooren in the Red Star squad, which was champions of the northern group of Division 1 this season , but this is not considered an official title win. A year later, the gnarled, matter-of-fact player and his club were in the final of the French Cup against FC Sète and contributed to the 2-0 victory with a solid performance. In that year 1942, the French national team played two international matches, in which Roessler was also used.

After an interlude at AS Troyes-Savinienne , a year followed in which regional teams played for championship titles and cups instead of the clubs ; with the Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne was Henri Roessler in 1944 in the final for the Coupe de France , which, however, had no chance against the ÉF Nancy-Lorraine . Henri Germain then brought him to Stade de Reims and also made the 33-year-old coach. When, after the end of the war and the liberation, a nationwide, regular professional game could be resumed, Roessler initially contributed in this double function to the development of a team that would soon be one of the top clubs in Europe. From 1945 to 1947, the player-coach played 46 first division matches, in which he also scored two goals.

Player stations

  • Association Sportive Strasbourg
  • Red Star Olympique Paris (at least 1940-1942)
  • Association Sportive Troyes-Savinienne (1942/43?)
  • Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne (1943/44)
  • Stade de Reims (1944 to 1947, as player-coach)

In the national team

Henri Roessler was appointed to the Équipe tricolore twice in March 1942, relatively late in his career ; these encounters against Switzerland and Spain were France's only official international matches between January 1940 and December 1944, so that further nominations by the almost 35-year-old at the end of the war were not up for discussion.

As a trainer

From the 1947/48 season onwards, Henri Roessler concentrated entirely on his football teaching activities and, over the next three years, formed a team of players who had already laced their boots with him for Stade de Reims during the war - namely Petitfils , Jonquet , Marche for the defense as well as the strikers Albert Batteux , Flamion and Pierre Sinibaldi - and which was supplemented annually by players who fit into Roessler's concept of aggressive football based on a well-organized defensive, including Jacowski , Bini , Penverne , Prouff , Méano , the Dutchman Bram Appel and, as the successor to goalkeeper Jacques Favre, Paul Sinibaldi . In keeping with the times, Roessler was an authoritarian coach, but he had an eye for the right team structure and also had a good knack for dealing with younger people. Eight of his Reimser became national players during this time, and the coach led the first division newcomer to places 4, 2 and 3 in the 1948/49 season to his first championship title and a year later to victory in the cup . Incidentally, Reims' second team had also become French amateur champions in 1948.

In 1950 Roessler moved to the coaching bench at Olympique Marseille . Despite the return of the great Larbi Ben Barek and the goalscoring qualities of their Swede Gunnar Andersson in the 1950s, the Hafenstädter never got beyond a midfield position in Division 1 . In 1954 the team was at least in the cup final; the crowning glory of another title was denied to her and her coach due to the 1: 2 defeat against OGC Nice . Henri Roessler is still the coach who was responsible for the Marseille team for the largest number of competitive games (152) in uninterrupted succession to this day (as of January 8, 2012).

In 1954/55 he trained AS Aix . He later worked at Racing Strasbourg . But Provence never let go of the Alsatian: he later settled on the northern outskirts of Marseilles, where he put an end to his life two days after his 68th birthday.

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion : Neither (but 1941 champion of the northern group of Division 1 and 1947 runner-up)
  • French Cup Winner : 1942 (and finalist 1944)
  • 2 international caps

As a trainer

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ France Football of January 10, 2012, p. 7; He is followed by Didier Deschamps with 134 competitive games (since 2009) in all national and international competitions, which Roessler could theoretically overtake in April 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Roessler, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterbourg
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1978
Place of death Plan de Cuques