Jean Boyer (soccer player)

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Jean Boyer (born February 2, 1901 in Vitry-sur-Seine , † November 24, 1981 in Paris ) was a French football player .

Club career

When exactly Jean Boyer came to CASG Paris , the corporate club of the major bank Société Générale , cannot be determined. In the 1918/19 season the striker , who had just turned 18, stepped into the limelight at the latest when he won the final of the French Cup with the "Banquiers" . Since there was no national league in France until the 1932/33 season, the cup winners there were often referred to as national champions. In 1920 Boyer also became a national player (see below) . A year later, the player, who grew up in the capital region, moved to the "provinces": he stayed with VGA Médoc Bordeaux for a season , then returned to his now renamed original club CASG, but ended the season with the rather insignificant sporting club SC Choisy-le -Roi.

Until then, it was only conjecture that the change of club would have been materially worthwhile for Jean Boyer - also a capital offense in France during the heyday of amateurism at the time - but when he moved to Olympique Marseille in the summer of 1923 , the rumors became a certainty. His signature was there - like that of his friend Édouard Crut and a little later that of Jules Dewaquez  - " outweighed in gold". Boyer, like Crut, got a pro forma well paid job as a “representative” at the dried fruit wholesaler Le Cesne. On the football pitch, the athletic, strong headed and goal-scoring boyer, who was usually called up half right or as a center forward, was sometimes quite rough. In an international match in 1927, for example, he rammed the "great Zamora" with the ball over the goal line with massive physical effort. On the other hand, it was this assertiveness that made the 23-year-old team captain in his first season at Olympique .

He won the French Football Cup three times in the first four years with Marseille ; in the first two finals ( 1924 against FC Cette and 1926 against AS Valentigney ) he scored one goal each; in the 1927 final against US Quevilly Boyer went empty-handed. In 1929, his two goals in the final against Club Français Paris contributed significantly to winning the Championnat par catégories , a competition that is now only counted as an unofficial championship .

The introduction of professionalism in French football was initially critical of Boyer for financial reasons, because he had to choose between his career and football. In the meantime he had created a second mainstay as a broker for building materials. At Olympique in 1932/33 he was officially able to earn around 2,000 francs a month , roughly three times the wages of a skilled worker; however, this sum rose rapidly to 3,500 to 4,000 francs in the following seasons. In terms of sport, the team played at the top in Division 1 - in the first two years second in the table of Season A or third in the now single-track league - but despite their high quality player line-up, they failed to make a title and fell ninth out of 16 in 1934/35 Teams down to average. In the national cup, however, Marseille was back in the final in 1933/34, but lost 2-1 against the great southern French rival of these decades, FC Sète . Jean Boyer, who had gone from storm tank to passer in his later career years, remained goalless in this final. After all, he had made it to 10th place on the top scorer list with 14 goals in the league games of the season - as the third best scorer at Olympique Marseille behind Joseph Alcazar and Vilmos Kohut .

Twelve months later, OM reached the cup final again and this time also won the title; Boyer, however, was missing from the line-up because he had been dealing with knee problems for the entire season, which had also prevented him from playing a single point game. This meant that the first national player for Marseille ever ended his career in the summer of 1935 without having won a fifth Coupe de France. But his four titles were also the record mark in France for 28 years before Marceau Somerlinck outbid this performance in the 1955 cup final . Jean Boyer moved back to Paris after his forced retirement.

Stations

  • Club Athlétique de la Société Générale Paris (at least 1918–1921)
  • La Vie au Grand Air du Médoc Bordeaux (1921/22)
  • Club Athlétique des Sports Généraux Paris (1922/23)
  • Sporting Club Choisy-le-Roi (1923)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1923-1935)

In the national team

Between August 1920 and May 1929 Jean Boyer played 15 international matches in the senior national team and scored seven goals. His first game was the 3-1 victory over Italy at the football tournament of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp . There the debutant France had shot 1-0 lead, which is why he was placed in the semi-finals against Czechoslovakia ; again he managed a goal, which remained France's only one. In the following years he was also in the French storm formation, mostly on half right next to Jules Dewaquez , Paul Nicolas , Henri Bard and Raymond Dubly . With this attack succeeded in May 1921 a 2-1 victory over England - the first ever for the Bleus  -; and even if it was only an English amateur selection, Boyer shot himself "in the annals of French sport" with a volleyed ball, which meant the final score.

He also made two appearances at the 1924 Olympic football tournament in Paris and sank the leather ball twice into the opposing net in a 7-0 win over Latvia before Uruguay showed the French their limits. In the following five years, Boyer, who was undeniably successful with Olympique Marseille at that time, only played three more international matches. In the south of France and especially in Marseille, this discrepancy, along with other political and cultural reasons, has contributed to the impression, which has persisted to the present day, of being permanently reset by the central authorities in Paris.

Jean Boyer has played four international matches against teams from German-speaking countries: one against Switzerland (0: 3, March 1924) and three against Belgium (1: 4 in February 1923, 2: 0 in January 1924 and 1: 4 at Boyers last Game 1929). He never managed to hit a goal in any of these encounters.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing (but winner of the Championnat de France par catégories [unofficial title] 1929)
  • French cup winner: 1919, 1924, 1926, 1927 (and finalist 1934)
  • 15 international A matches (7 goals) for France, including 3 during his time with CASG, 1 with Médoc, 2 with Choisy, 9 with OM
  • Olympic participant in 1920 and 1924
  • 38 games and 19 goals in professional Division 1 (1932–1934)

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
  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • France Football: Olympique de Marseille. Special - Clubs de legend, 2008
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 55 (quotation); Pécheral, pp. 35-38; Cornu, p. 36
  2. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 37; Cornu, p. 33
  3. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 58; similar to Chaumier, p. 55
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 340–343
  5. ↑ Pécheral, p. 45
  6. ^ France Football, p. 8
  7. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 61
  8. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 135
  9. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 41 and 384/385
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 30/31
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 295-301
  12. ↑ From the vast amount of literature on this subject, only France Football, pp. 5–7, and Pécheral are mentioned as representative of football.
  13. ↑ Chaumier, p. 55
  14. ↑ Pécheral, p. 373

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personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitry-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1981
Place of death Paris