Jacques Grimonpon

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Jacques Grimonpon (born July 30, 1925 in Tourcoing , † January 23, 2013 in Cap Ferret ) was a French football player .

Player career

The left defender played after the Second World War at Lille OSC , with which he won the Doublé in 1946 ( French champions and cup winners in the same season); The 20-year-old was only used in seven league games and was also not in the victorious final eleven of the state cup. When Lille again brought the trophy to northern France in 1947 , it was again not used in the final; Marceau Somerlinck and Joseph Jadrejak played on the defensive positions in both years .

There is a gap in the representations for the period between 1947 and 1949. He then played for the second division Lyon Olympique Universitaire (1949/50, 7th place in the final table) and Olympique Lyon (1950/51), who rose as the second division champion at the end of the season. Jacques Grimonpon, however, moved back to the north, where he was twice midfield in the table with first division Le Havre AC .

From 1953 he was under contract with the Girondins Bordeaux . There he finished third in 1954 and personally played such a strong season that he was called up to the French squad for the 1954 World Cup . He was not used in Switzerland, and he never wore the blue jersey of the senior national team afterwards .

In the club he was from 1954 captain of the team that played again for the championship in 1955 as sixth in the final classification. In addition, his Girondins reached the cup final in the same year - the first in which he was also used - but had to bow to Lille OSC 2: 5. A year later, Bordeaux rose as League-17. surprising from; Grimonpon was also loyal to the club in the second division. After the immediate resurgence did not work out, the defender ended his professional career in 1957.

Stations

  • Lille Olympique SC (1945-1947)
  • Lyon Olympique Universitaire (1949/50, in D2)
  • Olympique Lyon (1950/51, in D2)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1951-1953)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1953–1957, 1956/57 in D2)

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1946
  • French cup winner : 1946, 1947 [each without a final game] (and finalist 1955)
  • Member of the French World Cup squad in 1954
  • At least 171 games and 3 goals in Division 1 , of which at least 7/0 for Lille, 64/1 for Le Havre and 100/2 for Bordeaux

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Obituary (French)
  2. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 147; there in the notation Grimonpont.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 362/363
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 371
  5. ↑ Figures 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, n.d.; No information is available for the 1946/47 season near Lille.
personal data
SURNAME Grimonpon, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Tourcoing
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2013
Place of death Cap Ferret