Jean-François Jodar

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Jean-François Jodar (born December 2, 1949 in Montereau-Fault-Yonne ) is a former French football player and current coach .

Player career

In his clubs

Jean-François Jodar came from an amateur club in his hometown to the second division team Stade Reims in 1967 , where, at the age of 17, he already played a dozen point games in his debut season. In addition, he advanced with the A-youth of the red-whites to the final for the Coupe Gambardella , in which he scored two goals as a center forward . He was also used regularly in the U-18 national team ; with this he was in the final of the European Junior Championship in 1968 . In the following season he also became a regular player for the men and scored seven goals. In 1970 Stade Reims returned to the first division , and Jodar, who was flexible enough to play in midfield and was able to assert himself because of his athleticism, was increasingly used as a defender . With Delio Onnis , Georges Lech and Carlos Bianchi , the club had more successful goal scorers in its line-up in these years. Nevertheless, there were no national titles to be won with Reims; Although the team from Champagne mostly finished in a single-digit table position until 1975, the best rank remained a sixth place in the 1973/74 season.

In 1975 the third of the preseason, Olympique Lyon , signed Jean-François Jodar. But also on the Rhône it was  rather mediocre in the championship in the following four years - and despite renowned teammates like Bernard Lacombe , Aimé Jacquet and his teammate at the European junior tournament, Serge Chiesa in 1968 : again a sixth place in the final table ( 1977) the best placement, and twice (1976 and 1978) Jodar barely escaped relegation with Lyon. For this he even advanced to the final in the national cup in the 1975/76 season , which was then won 2-0 by Olympique Marseille . In the same season, Jodar also made his first two appearances in a European Cup competition, when Lyon were knocked out against Club Bruges in the first UEFA Cup round after 4: 3 (one Jodar goal) and 0: 3.

In 1979 Jodar came to the reigning French champions Racing Strasbourg . His first season in Alsace ended with 5th place and thus the best championship placement of his entire playing career. Also in the European championship competition , the team came from coach Gilbert Gress , in which Jodar u. a. on the side of Dominique Dropsy and Jacques Novi as well as his former Reimser teammate Carlos Bianchi ran up relatively far. After a clear success against Start Kristiansand (2: 1, 4: 0) and a narrower one against Dukla Prague (0: 1, 2: 0 afterwards), the Ajax Amsterdam hurdle could not be overcome in the quarter-finals (0: 0 , 0: 4).

After four years with Strasbourg, he accepted the offer to work as a player-coach for the second division Entente Montceau . The first season there ended, however, with the relegation of the team supervised by Jodar, after which the latter concentrated exclusively on coaching.

Player stations
  • until 1967 ASA de Montereau
  • 1967–1975 Stade de Reims (until 1970 in D2)
  • 1975–1979 Olympique Lyonnais
  • 1979–1983 Racing Club de Strasbourg
  • 1983/84 Entente de Montceau (in D2, as player-coach)

In the national team

Between June 1972 and April 1975, the former European junior runner-up Jean-François Jodar played six full international matches for France , in which he also scored one goal. National coach Georges Boulogne and his successor Ștefan Kovács always put him on the right defensive side; in this position, however, he had three strong competitors in Raymond Domenech , Gérard Janvion and Christian Lopez . In the autumn of 1974, Jodar was also used in two qualifying games for the 1976 European Championship , namely the 1: 2 against the " Red Devils " and the 2: 2 against the GDR selection . In the 2-0 away win in the friendly against Poland , the defender scored the 2-0 goal with a volley from the edge of the penalty area.

Coaching activities

Jodar initially stayed with the third division club, now renamed FC Montceau, and led him back to the second division at the end of the first season. In 1987 the French federation made him assistant coach Henri Michels for the senior national team; as a member of the national coaching staff , the Direction Technique Nationale (DTN), he was also responsible for the older age groups of the youth national teams until 2002. Jodar, whom two of his former club coaches have particularly influenced in his own coaching philosophy, namely the experienced Lucien Leduc at Reims and the young Aimé Jacquet in Lyon, became European champion in 1997 with the U-19 and world champion in 2001 with the U-17 . From 2002 to 2006 he was primarily responsible for the junior and senior national team of the United Arab Emirates , then head coach for three years in Mali, whose senior team he also looked after at the 2008 African Cup .

At the end of 2009 he returned to club football; his two half-year engagements with the Moroccan first division clubs HUS Agadir and MA Tétouan were not crowned with countable successes; at Tétouan, Jean-François Jodar was dismissed at the end of 2010 because the team was only in midfield.

Coaching stations
  • 1984–1987 FC Montceau (1984/85 in D3, then D2)
  • 1987–1998 assistant coach of the French national football team
  • 1988–1999 French U-17 and U-19
  • 1999–2002 French U-17
  • 2002–2003 U-20 of the United Arab Emirates
  • 2004–2006 senior national team of the United Arab Emirates
  • 2006–2009 Mali senior national team
  • December 2009 – May 2010 Hassania US d'Agadir
  • May 2010 – December 2010 Maghreb Athlétic de Tétouan

Palmarès

as a player
  • Finalist of the French A youth championship: 1968
  • Finalist of the A-Youth European Championship: 1968
  • French cup finalist: 1976
  • 6 international matches (1 goal)
  • 8 European Cup matches (1 goal)
  • 421 games (16 hits) in Division 1, including 156/13 for Reims, 134/2 for Lyon, 131/1 for Strasbourg
as a trainer
  • U-19 European Champion: 1997
  • U-17 world champion: 2001
  • Participation in the African Championship: 2008
Other awards
  • "Monterelais of the year": 2000

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
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 138 and 300ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 168
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 392
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 251
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 324
  6. ↑ 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. 332f.
  7. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 166
  8. ↑ 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Jodar, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Montereau-Fault-Yonne