Jean-Marie Prévost
Jean-Marie Prévost (born September 30, 1918 in Le Teilleul , † before 2003 ) was a French football player .
Player career
Early years (until 1939)
Prévost, who was 178 centimeters tall and was used both in defense and in midfield , began playing football in the northern French city of Lille and, as a two-time winner of a youth competition in 1934 and 1935, was already in the national spotlight as a teenager. At first he wore the jersey of the SC Fives , but then switched to city rivals Olympique Lille , where he made the leap to the professional team in 1936. At a time when substitutions and substitutions were not yet possible, he did not get beyond irregular appearances in the first division team in his first years in paid football. However, he was on the pitch when Lille faced Racing Paris in the 1939 national cup final ; because the game was lost 3-1, the young footballer missed a possible first title win.
Life in World War II (1939–1945)
When the Second World War broke out in 1939 , Prévost was called up as a soldier and had to interrupt his career. He fell into German captivity and spent four years as a prisoner in a main camp near Nuremberg . Because of this, he did not have the opportunity to participate in the unofficially held football championship until the end of the war.
Return to football (from 1945)
From 1945 he was in the squad of Lille OSC , which had emerged from the merger of his two previous clubs Olympique Lille and SC Fives, and saw the restart of official game operations in the same year. He became a regular player and became French champion with his teammates in 1946; he also played his second cup final and won his first title there thanks to a 4-2 win against Red Star Paris . In October 1946, he broke with a Erstligabegegnung against Stade Rennes the fibula . From this injury, however, Prévost was able to recover quickly, so that he was back on the field in December of the same year. He was still one of the top performers of a team that was one of the top clubs in the league, although initially they could not win any other titles. In the cup, however, succeeded in defending the title in 1947, which was followed in 1948 by a third win of the trophy in a row. This series was torn in 1949 when Lille failed in the final as well as in 1939 to Racing Paris; personally, after three cup wins and one championship, Prévost could not post any more title wins. Nevertheless, at more than 30 years of age he was still part of a top club in the top French league. In 1952, the player, who had consistently played for clubs from the city of Lille, ended his professional career at the age of 33 after 205 top division games with eight goals. Despite his many years of membership in one of the most successful national teams, he was never accepted into the national team of his country.
Coaching career
A year after the end of his active career, the ex-professional was introduced as a new coach at the amateur club SC Abbeville in 1953 . He stayed in this post until 1954, but was hired again in 1955. He remained loyal to the club until he moved to the second division US Boulogne in 1961 . After a year there, he ended his coaching career in 1962.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moniteur Belge Belgisch Staatsblad (PDF; 1.3 MB), urbanisme.irisnet.be
- ↑ Jean-Marie Prévost - Fiche de stats du joueur de footall , pari-et-gagne.com
- ^ Jean-Marie Prévost complete profile ( memento of October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
- ↑ Football: Jean-Marie Prévost , footballdatabase.eu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prévost, Jean-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Tilleul , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 2003 |