Jean Gallice

Jean Gallice
Personnel
birthday	May 13, 1949
place of birth	Bordeaux ,  France
size	172 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1969-1971	AS Angoulême	62 (23)
1971-1977	Girondins Bordeaux	200 (50)
1977-1979	Olympique Lyon	64 (12)
1979-1980	RC Besançon	29 0(7)
1980-1984	AS Libourne	110 (17)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1974-1976	France	7 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Jean Gallice (born May 13, 1949 in Bordeaux ) is a former French football player .

As a player in the club

Youth and professional debut at Angoulême (until 1971)

Gallice was born in 1949 as the son of the national player René Gallice (1919–1999) and the older brother of the future professional footballer André Gallice (* 1950). He began playing football in his youth at various small clubs in the region around his native Bordeaux - including the Bordeaux Étudiants Club - before he was discovered by the talent scouts of AS Angoulême and moved there. In 1969, the club was promoted to the first division and then the previous youth player was appointed to the professional squad for the first time by coach Yvon Goujon . The 20-year-old striker became a regular player and justified Goujon's trust with 13 goals in 28 games. His team finished fourth in the table, which was the best placement in the club's history and also made it possible for Angoulême to participate in the European competition. In the Messestädte-Pokal, the predecessor of the UEFA Cup introduced in 1971, the West French faced Vitória Guimarães from Portugal and were narrowly inferior to their opponents on both legs. Gallice was in both games, which remained his only in European competition, on the field and scored a goal in the second leg. The 1970/71 league season was not very successful and the class could only be held thanks to a point ahead of Racing-Pierrots Strasbourg .

First division with Bordeaux and Lyon (1971–1979)

Through his strong personal performances, Gallice piqued the interest of other clubs and in 1971 he was signed by Girondins Bordeaux , his father's long-time club. He was considered fast, very ready and strong at the ball. At Bordeaux he faced numerous competitors on the offensive, but was able to establish himself as a regular player immediately. While René Gallice had won the championship with Bordeaux in 1950, the 1970s were dominated by the relegation battle for the club. During these years he developed into an integral part of the team and recorded his best goal yields with 13 and 11 goals in the seasons 1972/73 and 1973/74, but he also scored regularly in other ways. In particular, his eleven goals in the 1973/74 season contributed significantly to relegation, as Bordeaux had only one point ahead of the first relegated AS Nancy . The tenth place in the table reached in 1976 and 1977 was his best placement with Bordeaux. In the run-up to the 1977/78 season, he left the club after six years to join Olympique Lyon .

In Lyon, under coach Aimé Jacquet, he was part of an offensive trio with Serge Chiesa and Bernard Lacombe , with Lacombe in particular appearing as a goal scorer. Despite a decent goal haul, the team was only able to assert itself in 1978 thanks to the significantly better goal difference against Racing Lens and Troyes Aube Football and thus remain in the league. As a result, the offensive around Jean-Marc Valadier and the previous reservist Karim Maroc was intensified, in addition, the later national player Jean Tigana was signed for midfield . In this constellation, the team was able to increase significantly and finished seventh at the end of the 1978/79 season. In 1979 he left Lyon to join the second division club RC Besançon . For the now 30-year-old, this meant saying goodbye to France's top division after ten years, in which he had played 326 games and scored 85 goals.

In the second division Besançon and Libourne (1979–1984)

In Besançon he also took a regular place and scored seven goals during the 1979/80 season. His team took fourth place in the table, but remained clearly from a possible promotion. In 1980 he left the club after just one year and moved to the second-class AS Libourne in his home region in southwest France. At the small club from the Bordeaux area, Gallice was a regular player and always had to fight with his teammates to stay in the class. Three times in a row this succeeded just under, with Libourne occupying 14th place in the table. In 1984, however, there was a relegation to the third division, whereupon Gallice decided to end his career at the age of 35. In Besançon and Libourne he had played a total of 139 second division games with 24 goals of his own.

National team

Gallice played 16 times as a junior player for the French U-21 national team , to which his brother was appointed several times. During his time in Bordeaux he was accepted into the senior national team of France , for which he made his debut on October 12, 1974 in a 2-1 defeat in a European Championship qualifier against Belgium at the age of 25. The Gallice family, in the form of father René (an international match) and Jean, was the first father-son pair in the history of the French national team. His debut was followed by regular appearances for Jean Gallice, most of which took place in the European Championship qualification and were not particularly successful in terms of sport. France clearly missed qualifying for the tournament and Gallice did not experience a single win in a total of seven international matches. Most recently he was used on October 9, 1976 in a 2-2 win against Bulgaria in qualifying for the upcoming 1978 World Cup . The team was able to qualify for this tournament, but after a long period of time without consideration he was not appointed to the squad.

Later work

After the end of his career, Gallice worked full-time as a sports teacher, while he also worked as a coach in amateur clubs. In 2002, at an offer from his former coach Aimé Jacquet, he became part of the staff of the Direction technique nationale , which is responsible for running the French national teams. In the following years he trained various ages of the French junior national team and won the European championship title in 2005 with the U-19 selection. In 2012, at the age of 63, he left the association.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean Gallice , national-football-teams.com
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jean Gallice - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jean Gallice ( Memento of October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), afterfoot.fr via Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jean GALLICE , fff.fr
5. ↑ Jean Gallice, l'irréductible formateur , larepubliquedespyrenees.fr