Jean Courteaux

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Jean Courteaux (born November 6, 1926 in Dammartin-sur-Tigeaux , Département Seine-et-Marne , † August 11, 2003 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

Jean Courteaux grew up during World War I and the German occupation of France . Little is known about his early footballing activities. In 1948 at the latest he came to Racing Paris , for which he did not play a single league game in Division 1 in the 1948/49 season and was not used in the national cup competition . The following year, however , coach Paul Baron Courteaux fielded in well over half of the league games, and the striker scored in almost every second game. He was also on the side of Ernest Vaast and Albert Guðmundsson , among others , in Racing's team, which, however, could not repeat their previous year's success in the cup final against Stade Reims despite oppressive superiority.

The club then gave him to OGC Nice , where Jean Courteaux spent his most successful years. In its very first season on the Côte d'Azur , the Aiglons won the French championship title - the OGCN players are known as "young eagles" into the 21st century - despite two coach changes in the middle of the season . The attacker had contributed to a considerable extent and placed at the end of the season among all goalscorers with 27 point game hits - just one goal less than Roger Piantoni from Nancy  - on the second rank of the scorers . The following year Nice repeated the success in Division 1, and Courteaux also won the Coupe de France with the black and reds . In the final he did not score his own goal, but he scored five goals in the first four rounds of the cup. Due to the double success, the Aiglons were only the fourth team in French professional football in 1952 to secure the doublé . In addition to Jean Courteaux, under coach Numa Andoire , players such as Marcel Domingo , Désiré Carré , Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , Antoine Bonifaci , Luis Carniglia , the two Swedes Pär Bengtsson and Lennart Samuelsson as well as a young Luxembourg talent named Victor Nurenberg were in the team in these two seasons from Nice. In the French senior team , the striker was not called up at this time by the selection committee of the national association and its Sélectionneur Gaston Barreau . After the double success, a very weak season 1952/53 followed for the Aiglons , in which the team, now trained by Mario Zatelli , escaped relegation by a hair's breadth.

As a result, relegated Racing Paris brought Jean Courteaux back to the capital in 1953, and in the second division the striker, whom coach Auguste Jordan provided with Stanislas Curyl and Thadée Cisowski, two more accurate attackers, found his way back to old goal danger. His 36 league goals helped him to the Ligatorjägerkrone, and also in the subsequent barrages , in which Racing secured the immediate promotion against local rivals Stade Français , he was twice successful. But then the OGC Nice brought him back from Paris - a consequence of the contractual conditions in France's professional football until the end of the 1960s, which denied players almost any say in club changes. Courteaux stayed there only one season (1954/55), and although he advanced to the semi-finals with the Aiglons in the national cup , he only made 14 appearances in Division 1, in which he scored only four goals. Besides Carniglia, Nurenberg, Antoine Cuissard , Just Fontaine and Joseph Ujlaki, he only found his place sporadically in Nice's offensive series .

He then had to return to Paris, but not to the Racing Club, but to the second division Stade Français, where he at least found his way back to the old scoring threat and, for example , scored three of the four Paris goals in a game in the cup thirty-second final at AC Cambrai . From 1956 to 1958 he wore the colors of the Cercle Athlétique Paris , a team that had not been relegated to lower leagues for almost a decade only because even a bottom-placed table was allowed to remain in professional leagues as long as it retained its license. For CAP, Jean Courteaux scored 23 goals in the two seasons, but the club only ended the seasons in 19th and 18th place respectively. In 1958, the striker followed Mario Zatelli's call to move to the ambitious amateur club CS La Voulte near Valence , which he coached . After the promotion failed there, Courteaux ended his playing career in 1959, in which he had been successful in more than every second game on average in the professional field: 60 goals in 116 matches in the first division and 69 goals in 113 games in the second division.

The literature used gives almost no information about Courteaux's subsequent life. He has worked as a coach , including at the underclass Stade Briochin (1962/63) and AS Troyes-Savinienne (from 1963 to at least 1965), which was also only represented in the amateur field during these seasons. In 2003 Jean Courteaux, 76 years old, died.

Stations

  • 1948–1950 Racing Paris
  • 1950–1953 OGC Nice
  • 1953/54 Racing Paris (in D2)
  • 1954/55 OGC Nice
  • 1955/56 Stade Français Paris (in D2)
  • 1956–1958 CA Paris (in D2)
  • 1958/59 Club Sportif La Voulte (lower class)

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1951, 1952
  • French Cup Winner: 1952 (and finalist 1950)
  • Top scorer: 1953/54 in D2 (and runner-up in D1 1950/51)

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 95
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 366
  3. ↑ Team photos of the OGC Nice with Jean Courteaux from the seasons 1950/51 and 1951/52 can be found at Football Retro.
  4. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 152
  5. ↑ A four-minute newsreel film of this endgame can be found at ina.fr
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 75
  7. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 252
  8. ↑ see the data sheet for this match at footballdatabase.eu
  9. ↑ First division numbers according to 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.; Second division numbers according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ).
  10. ↑ after this unofficial page of ES Troyes AC and this magazine
  11. ↑ Date of death according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under Weblinks )
personal data
SURNAME Courteaux, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dammartin-sur-Tigeaux , Seine-et-Marne department
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2003