Jean Grumellon

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Jean Grumellon (born June 1, 1923 in Saint-Servan , since 1967 part of Saint-Malo , † December 30, 1991 in Saint-Malo) was a French football player .

Club career

Jean Grumellon grew up on the Breton coast of the English Channel , where he started with the US Saint-Servan with club football; in addition, he was often at sea at a young age, which later earned him the nickname le corsaire (“privateer”) in professional football . During the Second World War he lived temporarily in London as a member of the Navy of " Free France " and was also used for their national football team.

From 1945 the left-footed striker played for the first division Stade Rennes UC , but initially only in the second team. From the beginning of the 1947/48 season he was part of the regular formation of the league eleven, and the chain smoker, who nonetheless had "inexhaustible stamina" on the pitch, confirmed the trust of his coaches (in Rennes it was Franz Pleyer until 1952 , later in Le Havre René Bihel ) reliably with hits throughout his active time. During all of his full first division seasons, Grumellon was in the list of the most successful goalscorers in Division 1 : 1947/48, 1948/49 and 1950/51 respectively in fourth place (with 22, 24 and 21 hits), in 1951/52 in twelfth place (14th) ), 1953/54 as eighth (14) - and in 1949/50 he even won the “crown” in this ranking when he scored 24 goals. He never belonged to a team that could seriously intervene in the fight for the championship title ; the best placement in the respective season-end tables he achieved with Rennes in the 1950/51 season as fourth, and in the cup competition he never got beyond the quarter-finals (1951/52).

After the Stade Rennais Université Club had slipped into the relegation zone for the first time in the summer of 1952, he accepted a contract offer from the reigning champions OGC Nice ; However, the team from the Côte d'Azur played a rather weak season and gave Jean Grumellon to the neighboring second division AS Monaco after the first half of the season . With the Monegasque, the striker promptly rose to the first division, in which he no longer played for them, but - back in the north-west of France - for Le Havre AC . When his 14 point goals for the team from Normandy at the end of the 1953/54 season could not prevent relegation, he agreed to return to Stade Rennes and was given by Le Havre. With his SRUC he played two more successful years in the second division, at the end of 1956 when he was promoted again. The now 33-year-old took this as an opportunity to withdraw from professional sport, in which he had played in 203 games with 126 goals in the first division and in 81 games with 37 goals in the second division.

Jean Grumellon then played for a year for the amateur club US Saint-Malo . Professionally, he ran a sporting goods store in Rennes , which he later sold to his former national team colleague Antoine Cuissard , before he finally settled back in his native Saint-Malo - even since his career as a professional player as an almost indispensable "second financial pillar" at that time in France . He died there at the age of 69.

Stations

  • US Saint-Servan (as a youth)
  • 1945–1952: Stade Rennes UC
  • 1952/53 (first round): OGC Nice
  • 1952/53 (second round): AS Monaco (in D2)
  • 1953/54: Le Havre AC
  • 1954–1956: Stade Rennes UC (in D2)
  • 1956/57: US Saint-Malo (amateur)

In the national team

Jean Grumellon has played a total of ten international matches for the French senior team , scoring five goals, the first on his debut against Switzerland in June 1949 . That is why he was regularly considered by the association's Séletionneurs in the following years , for example for two World Cup qualifying games against Yugoslavia at the end of 1949. The fact that the attacker repeatedly refused such an invitation when he did not feel himself in the best of shape hurt him despite the competition from Jean Baratte , Édouard Kargulewicz and André Strappe not, but in 1950 he only played one of the four French encounters. In October 1951 he was among other things in the legendary 2-2 in France to the present day against England on the field of Highbury Stadium ; During that game, one of his shots landed on the wooden frame of the English goal just before the final whistle, and he subsequently failed to bring the rebound over the line because he did not hit the ball properly on the plowed lawn. It should be "another three years before the English professionals - against Hungary  - lost a home game against a team from the continent for the first time". L'Équipe quoted Jean Grumellon two days after the match as saying:

“I slipped very easily on the difficult track, so that the ball rolled next to the goal. [... In this way I] missed the chance of my life as a football player. "

In the two subsequent games at the end of the year, he scored better, scored the 2-0 lead in Genève against Switzerland (final score 2-1) and even scored both French goals in the 2-2 win against Austria . After he was seriously injured after just three minutes in his tenth international match against Portugal in April 1952 and had to be substituted, he never wore the blue national dress again even after his convalescence.

Palmarès

  • League player king 1949/50
  • National team player for France

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0

Web links

  • Data sheet on the website of the French Football Association

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 147
  2. ↑ a b Cadiou, p. 227
  3. ^ After Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 147-153
  4. ↑ Use and hit numbers for D1 from 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 o. J., for 1947/48 supplemented from Cadiou, p. 228; for D2 according to Grumellon's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  5. ↑ a b Cadiou, p. 228
  6. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 124; Chaumier, p. 147
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 312
  8. ↑ Article from L'Équipe of October 5, 1951, facsimile in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 78
  9. ^ Cadiou, p. 229
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 313f.
personal data
SURNAME Grumellon, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Servan
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1991
Place of death Saint Malo