Jacques Favre

Jacques Favre (born May 6, 1921 in Laon , † May 8, 2008 in Mutzig ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

The goalkeeper Jacques Favre came to Stade Reims in the 1939/40 season . There he developed into the backing of a team that struck so successfully during the "war championships" - nowadays only considered unofficial in France - that they were classified in the top division in 1945 , to which they had never belonged before. Reims finished third in 1940, fourth in 1941, first in 1942, fifth in 1943 and fourth in 1945 in the northern group. This eleven also included u. a. Batteux , Flamion , Ignace , Jonquet , Marche , Petitfils , Roessler , Pierre Sinibaldi and player-coach Vandooren in cup competition in those years reached the club in 1941 the semi-finals and in 1942 the final of the upstream part of the competition the occupied zone of France, Reims against Red Star Olympique after a " fierce battle “lost with 0: 1. In the 1943/44 season, when instead of club teams regional selections in the championship and cup, Favre was in the squad, but not in the box of the Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne when they lost the final at the national level against the ÉF Nancy-Lorraine .

After the liberation of the country, the red-whites continued to strengthen (talented players such as Jacowski , Bini or Penverne came ), and Favre was the undisputed regular goalkeeper of the team, who were runner-up in 1947 and just behind the respective champions in 1946 and 1948 came in: until 1948 he was missing in only one of the 106 point games. When a new goalkeeper was committed in 1948 with Paul Sinibaldi , Stade Reims gave Favre to league rivals OGC Nice ; with this team he was seventh in the table and had to watch from a distance as his former Rémois won their first championship.

From 1949 Jacques Favre played for FC Nancy . Although the Lothringer had some strong players with Clemens , Deladerrière and Piantoni , they only managed a single-digit position in the final table in 1952/53. But Favre even reached the cup final with Nancy this season, which was lost 2-1 to Olympique Lille . In 1953/54 the goalkeeper worked there as a player-coach before concentrating exclusively on the new role next to the sidelines.

Stations

• Stade de Reims (1939–1943 and 1944–1948)
• Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne (1943/44)
• Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice (1948/49)
• Football Club Nancy (1949-1954)

Coaching career

After his time at FC Nancy, Favre looked after FC Metz , which fought for three years against relegation to Division 2 and could no longer avoid it in 1958. He returned to Metz for the first time in 1963 - in between he had worked for the Belgian KAA Gent and the northern French second division club CO Roubaix-Tourcoing - where he worked again for three years, but which he was unable to return to Division 1 until 1966 .

He then failed with AS Angoulême , which twice caused a sensation in the cup competition. In 1967 Favres Elf reached the semi-finals after successes over the higher-class FC Nantes and RC Lens , in which they failed to Olympique Lyon , the eventual winner of the Coupe de France - but not on the pitch, where it was 3: 3 after extra time as well as in the replay twice 1: 1, but only by drawing lots in the dressing room, because captain Yvon Goujon had decided on the wrong side of the 5 francs coin. At the Stade Vélodrome there was initially great confusion: because only players from Angoulême subsequently re-entered the field, many spectators believed that the underdog would have qualified for the final; individual newspapers, hastily informed about it by telephone, even published this in their editions of the next day. In 1968, the ASA again eliminated two first division clubs ( FC Rouen and FC Sochaux ) and met in the semifinals on AS Saint-Étienne . This time too, Favre's team defended themselves excellently (1: 1 a.s.), forced a replay and only then lost to the eventual cup winners with 1: 2.

At the beginning of the 1970s, however, he returned to the top division at AS Nancy (as assistant coach) and again at FC Metz. After a year with the second division US Boulogne , he became technical director of the Ligue de Lorraine de football , the Lorraine regional association of the FFF . Jacques Favre died two days after his 87th birthday in Mutzig , Alsace .

Stations

• Football Club Nancy (1953-1955)
• Football Club Metz (1955-1958)
• Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent (1959/60)
• Club Olympique Roubaix-Tourcoing (1962/63, in D2)
• Football Club Metz (1963-1966)
• Association Sportive d'Angoulême (1966–1968)
• Association Sportive Nancy-Lorraine (1970/71, as assistant coach)
• Football Club Metz (1971)
• Union Sportive de Boulogne (1973/74)

Palmarès

As a player

• French champion: Nothing (but runner-up in 1947 and champion of the northern group in 1942 [unofficial title])
• French cup winner: Nothing (but finalist 1953)
• 251 games (from 1945) in Division 1 , 105 of them for Reims, 30 for Nice, 116 for Nancy

As a trainer

• French Cup semi-finalist: 1967, 1968

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
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
• Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931 / 1981–50 at the 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

Remarks

1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 248
2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 249-251.
3. ^ François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , p. 91; L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 358
4. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 48
5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 369
6. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 100
7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 167/168 (there also a photo of the scene of the coin toss) and 383
8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 168f. and 384
9. ↑ “Décès de Jacques Favre” in L'Équipe of May 11, 2008, page 9; Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Figures from Nice and Nancy from 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.

Web links

• Data sheet on the website of FC Metz (in June 2008 only consisting of a photo)