Jean Bastien

Henri "Jean" Bastien (born June 21, 1915 in Oran , † 1969 in Marseille ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

Jean (actually Henri) Bastien, who grew up in Algeria in France at the time, began playing football at RU Algiers ; In 1935 a “talent scout” - it was the temporary vice-president of Olympique Marseille , Charles Elkabbach, who brought numerous footballers from North Africa to Provence - discovered Bastien , who worked as a steamroller driver, and convinced him to move to the first division for whom he was with three short interruptions over the next decade and a half. His position was that of an outrunner , which the anything but robustly built, red-haired son of a fisherman from Mers-el-Kébir filled in a very "British" way: tough on himself and his opponents, factual, more worker than director.

Under coach József Eisenhoffer , he developed alongside players like Vilmos Kohut , Mario Zatelli , Abdelkader Ben Bouali , Edmond Weiskopf , Jaguaré Vasconcelos and Emmanuel Aznar to become a permanent fixture in Olympique's team. He won a title there for the first time in 1937 and became French champion , a year later he won his first cup and was appointed to the national team (see below) . In the 1938/39 season he wanted to earn his money with Racing Paris , but not only missed its victory in the cup final . The reason for this: a lawyer close to Olympique had given young men who wanted to be exempted from compulsory military service in the French army a corresponding certificate for a four-digit sum. After various cases had been uncovered and brought to court - including that of his teammate Ben Bouali, who trained Bastien at RU Algiers - he was severely punished and his professional license was temporarily withdrawn. He then returned to Marseille. When Marseille lost Paris 12 months later in the final for the Coupe de France 1: 2, Jean Bastien was back in the game.

In 1940, the year of the German occupation and the division of France, he moved within the "free" zone to Toulouse FC . Together with Bastien, the TFC was also able to sign national players such as Raoul Diagne , Maurice Dupuis , Mario Zatelli and (from 1941) Abdelkader Ben Bouali, who had all been in an eleven with him before and, apart from Dupuis, also had a north-west African background. There was no uniform top division during the war years , so that the only success there was only the interzone final in the cup competition in 1941 , in which Toulouse was defeated by the Girondins AS du Port with 1: 3. Jean Bastien returned to Olympique Marseille in 1942, with whom he met the Girondins from Bordeaux again in the summer of 1943 . This time, however, it was the national final in the cup , and this time he was back on the side of the winners when Marseille also needed two games (2-2 aet and 4-0). In autumn 1944 he left Olympique for a four-month interlude at AS Avignon .

After the end of the war and the liberation of France, Bastien, meanwhile captain of Marseille for a long time, won his second championship in the 1947/48 season. In 1949, towards the end of his career, he wasn't too bad to play in Division 2 for GSC Marseille , which is essentially Olympique's second team. At the very end, Bastien switched to the also second-rate SO Montpellier as a player - coach .

Stations

• Racing Universitaire Algerois (until 1935)
• Olympique de Marseille (1935-1938)
• Racing Club de Paris (1938/39 - but mostly suspended)
• Olympique de Marseille (1939/40)
• Toulouse Football Club (1940-1942)
• Olympique de Marseille (1942 – August 1944, 1943/44 as Équipe Fédérale Marseille-Provence)
• Association Sportive Avignonaise (September – December 1944)
• Olympique de Marseille (January 1945-1949)
• Groupe Sporting Club Marseillais (1949/50, in D2)
• Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1950/51, as player-coach in D2)

In the national team

Jean Bastien played four games for France's senior team . He made his debut in June 1938 when he was not only part of the squad at the World Cup in his own country , but was also used in both games against Belgium and Italy . Due to his club change to Racing Paris, he was initially not considered again, and then the war spoiled him - like so many others of his generation - a large number of appointments because France only played six internationals between the summer of 1939 and summer of 1945. Bastien only came to two more missions in December 1945, both of which the Bleus lost in Austria and Belgium. He didn't score in any of these games.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1937, 1948
• French cup winner: 1938, 1939 [without fin.], 1943 (and finalist 1940)
• 4 full international matches (no hit) for France; World Cup participant in 1938
• for Marseille 291 games and 9 goals in Division 1 (including the unofficial war seasons)

Life after time as a player

Jean Bastien continued the coaching he started at Montpellier at several clubs in Morocco and Algeria, such as the US Marocaine de Casablanca and Association Sportive Musulmane d'Oran . He then settled in Marseille, where he died relatively young in 1969.

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
• Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Remarks

1. ↑ Pécheral, p. 420
2. ↑ to OM-Passion.com
3. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 93 and 97
4. ↑ Chaumier, p. 30; similar to Pécheral, p. 420
5. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 96; Pécheral, pp. 109-113.
6. ↑ Pécheral, p. 112
7. ↑ Pécheral, p. 420
8. ↑ Chaumier, p. 30
9. ↑ 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. 307-309.
10. ↑ Pécheral, p. 372

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the website of the French Association
• Data sheet about Bastien's club career