Jacques Foix

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Jacques Foix, 1961

Jacques Foix (born November 26, 1930 in Mont-de-Marsan , † June 14, 2017 in Dax , Landes department ) was a French football player .

Club career

Jacques Foix played until his 21 years at Stade Montois , the club of his native city, football . The talent of the center-forward at the small amateur club was recognized early on, which is why, as an A-youth, he was also appointed to the French class selection. In 1951, the RC Paris brought him to their first division team , and in this Foix prevailed in his first season as a professional footballer, at the end of which he had made it to 11th place on the top scorer list with 15 goals . When Racing had to relegate to the second division a year later , he found a new club in AS Saint-Étienne . With the Stéphanois he always played for the championship in the following three years , even if it was never quite enough to win the title. Under coach Jean Snella and alongside internationals like Kees Rijvers , goalkeeper Claude Abbes , Rachid Mekhloufi , Eugène Njo-Léa , Yvon Goujon and René Ferrier , he was fifth best in 1954/55 with 17 goals and in 1955/56 with 20 goals Division 1 shooter , also a national team player (see below) .

In 1956 Jacques Foix moved to the reigning French champions OGC Nice , where he played for the next five years. In his first year on the Côte d'Azur , he brought it up with the “young eagles” -  Aiglons was and is the popular nickname of the OGC players in France - in the cup up to the semi-finals; this remained the greatest success he was able to achieve in this traditional competition during his entire career. But he won his first title in 1958/59 with the division 1 championship after the team had experienced a major upheaval after numerous departures (including Antoine Cuissard , Joseph Ujlaki and goalkeeper Dominique Colonna ). Foix, who, along with Victor Nurenberg and André Chorda, was one of the eleven's remaining corset bars, had contributed 18 goals to the championship and was once again among the top ten goalscorers in the league. But although Nice continued to strengthen itself for the following season with Héctor De Bourgoing , two seasons followed in which the Aiglons were again only mediocre nationally. In the 1959/60 European Cup, however, after successes over the Shamrock Rovers and Fenerbahçe Istanbul in the quarter-finals - just like in 1956/57  - they met eventual winners Real Madrid , against whom they at least won their home game this time, which no one had done before French team had succeeded. Jacques Foix played all games of the OGC Nice in both events and was also its most successful goalscorer with five goals each.

In 1961, Toulouse FC signed him, but Foix separated again after only one season in the middle of the table. He returned to AS Saint-Étienne and moved for the first time in his professional career to the second division, to which the club had just been relegated. As the winner of the Coupe de France , ASSE represented France in the European Cup Winners' Cup , but was eliminated in the round of 16 against 1. FC Nürnberg . But Saint-Étienne ended the season as a second division champion, to which the now more lagging Jacques Foix had contributed eight hits. And twelve months later, the newcomer was also in first place in the final table of the top division, again with nine Foix goals. Jacques Foix won his second league title in a team of whose members he had worked with some of the mid-1950s (coach Snella, Mekhloufi and Ferrier); but also with his new teammates like Robert Herbin , Aimé Jacquet and striker André Guy he harmonized splendidly.
With this title, the now 33-year-old decided to end his career. He then returned to his homeland in southwestern France , where he initially worked in his father's insurance agency in Mont-de-Marsan and later took it over.

Foix died on June 14, 2017 at the age of 86 in Dax .

Stations

  • until 1951 Stade Montois
  • 1951–1953 Racing Club de Paris
  • 1953–1956 Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne
  • 1956–1961 Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice
  • 1961/62 Toulouse Football Club
  • 1962–1964 Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (of which 1962/63 in D2)

In the national team

As early as the spring of 1949, Jacques Foix won with the A-youth national team in the Netherlands the second junior European championship with a 4-1 final victory over the hosts. His best-known team-mates included Jean Beraudo , Antoine Bonifaci , Jean-Claude Kuhnapfel , Francis Méano and Jean Vincent .
Between December 1953 and March 1956 he played seven full international matches with the men's national team ; also in this circle he scored three hits. His most remarkable appearance was the friendship encounter, won 3: 1 against the newly crowned world champion Germany in October 1954 : Foix was initially only sitting on the reserve bench in Hanover's Lower Saxony Stadium ; Larbi Ben Barek was injured after just under half an hour and only six minutes later the substitute attacker took the lead, which Jean Vincent followed two minutes later to make it 2-0. After the break, Foix increased again to 3-0 after a pass from Raymond Kopa . The next day, L'Équipe headlined “Avec Foix et courage” (a play on words that translates as “With conviction and courage” in the spelling Avec foi et courage ). His last international match (against Austria ) also ended with a 3-1 win.

At the previous World Cup finals in Switzerland , Jacques Foix was not called up in the French squad despite a goal in the qualifying match against Luxembourg . And four years later he was again not one of those who contested the World Cup in Sweden : the center forward position at the Bleus was occupied in particular by René Bliard and Just Fontaine .

Palmarès

  • French champion 1959, 1964
  • Junior European Champion 1949
  • 7 international matches (3 goals) for France
  • 361 games and 132 goals in Division 1 , of which 52/24 for Racing Paris, 129/54 for ASSE, 162/50 for Nice, 18/4 for Toulouse
  • 14 games and 10 goals in the European Cup for Nice, 1 game (0 goals) in the European Cup for Saint-Étienne
  • 31st place in France's all-time first division hunter list

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
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008 ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 2003² ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Web links

Remarks

  1. Information on seasonal placements, also in the following, from Guillet / Laforge, pp. 151–163
  2. L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 288/289
  3. L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 320
  4. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 821
  5. Parmentier, p. 288
  6. Parmentier, p. 60
  7. Chaumier, p. 125
  8. Football: la mort de Jacques Foix, une légende landaise on francebleu of June 15, 2017
  9. Guillet / Laforge, p. 431
  10. Match report, comments and photos in L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 84/85 and 316
  11. Numbers 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.