Jean Djorkaeff

Jean Djorkaeff 2014

Jean Djorkaeff (born October 27, 1939 in Charvieu , Département Isère ) is a former French football player and coach .

The club career

Jean Djorkaeff is the son of a Kalmyk Cossack who served in the guard of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and who went into French exile after the October Revolution . Initially, whose son played "Tchouki" says Jeans nickname, nor as central or winger , to him his trainer Lucien Jasseron at Olympique Lyon , where he was under contract from 1958, the full-back umschulte. The left-footed Djorkaeff, who was not very tall at 1.73 m, was technically well-trained, agile and nimble. Lyon, however, mostly played against relegation in Division 1 in his first professional years; only in 1963 did the team at least get to the French Cup final , which Lyon lost in the replay, however, and the left-back was absent due to injury. A year later Lyon reached the final again, this time Jean Djorkaeff played and in the end he was able to celebrate his first title win. In the autumn of 1964 he was also appointed to the national team for the first time .

From 1966 to 1970 he played at Olympique Marseille , but even there he came to a team that was never able to play seriously for the French championship title in those years . After all, Jean Djorkaeff won the Coupe de France for the second time with OM in 1969 . A year later he moved to the second division Paris Saint-Germain FC , with whom he was promoted to Division 1 in 1971 and had to compete with its league team for the colors of Paris FC from 1972 , because the two clubs from the capital only founded around 1970 were able to meet the association requirement that every professional club had to have a "substructure" of amateur and youth teams. In the summer of 1974, Paris FC rose from the top division again; this also ended Jean Djorkaeff's career.

Club stations

• Olympique Lyonnais (1958–1966)
• Olympique de Marseille (1966-1970)
• Paris Saint-Germain FC (1970–1972, of which 1970/71 in D2)
• Paris FC (1972–1974)

The national player

Jean Djorkaeff made a total of 48 international matches for the Équipe tricolore between October 1964 and 1972 , scoring three goals and was captain of the team in 24 matches. At the 1966 World Cup in England , which ended for France's team after the preliminary round , he played all three matches.

One of his most personally moving international appearances was the invitation from the USSR Football Association to a farewell game for Lev Yashin in May 1971, at which the son of a Russian emigrant received an ovation from over 100,000 spectators in Moscow .

Life after the playing career

Djorkaeff then worked for several years as a coach, including at ASOA Valence , an association of Armenian emigrants, and then at FC Grenoble ; there he coached his son Youri , who later also - and with even greater success than his father - became the French international. Jean Djorkaeff then worked in various functions for the football association FFF; Since 2000, the two-time cup winner has been the president of the association commission responsible for organizing the national cup competition.

Palmarès

• French champion : Nothing (but runner-up 1970)
• French cup winner : 1964, 1969
• European Cup Winners' Cup : 11 games, 1 goal for Lyon (1963/64 and 1964/65) and 4 games (1969/70) for Marseille; also 3 appearances in the trade fair and UEFA cup (1 for Lyon, 2 for Marseille)
• 48 international A matches (9 of them during his time with Lyon, 21 with Marseille, 17 with Paris SG, 1 with Paris FC), 3 goals and team captain in 24 matches; World championship participant 1966
• 396 appearances and 37 goals in Division 1 (155/18 for Lyon, 139/12 for Marseille, 38/2 for PSG, 64/5 for Paris FC)