Jean Lanfranchi

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Jean Lanfranchi (born March 20, 1923 in Tunis - † December 5, 2017 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

Lanfranchi, whose parents came from the island of Corsica , grew up with his older brother and later teammate Marcel Lanfranchi in French-occupied Tunisia and began playing football there. In 1942 he was drafted into the military due to the Second World War and subsequently took part in the Italian campaign with a French unit from Morocco . In 1945 his time as a soldier was over and the midfielder , who is considered to be technically strong and enduring , continued his footballing career in metropolitan France.

From 1945 on he ran for the southern French club US Cazères , which also brought his brother into the team in 1946. In 1948 he, like his brother, took part in the Olympic football tournament for France and stood alongside numerous professionals as an amateur player, but was not used. In the same year, he and his brother moved to the first division club FC Toulouse , with which the then 25-year-old made the leap into paid football. In the top French league he made his breakthrough and he was usually part of the first team at Toulouse, even if he was not completely unchallenged. In 1951 he had to accept relegation to the second division, but remained thanks to his move to league rivals Olympique Marseille in the first division and thus separated from his brother who remained in Toulouse. Lanfranchi, who was called up for the country's B-Elf despite his absence from France's senior team, had to wait a few months for missions at Marseille, but then became a regular player and stayed in this position permanently. He kept this until he ended his professional career after his last first division game in a 1-1 draw against RC Lens on May 24, 1953 at the age of 30 after 117 first division games with 18 goals.

He then returned to Cazères, where his family continued to live. He began a career as a player -coach at an amateur club from nearby Saint-Gaudens . In 1957 he moved to his ex-club US Cazères , where he worked in the same position. In 1958 he finally retired from football; He spent his retirement in both Cazères and Ajaccio in Corsica .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report on the pages of Olympique Marseille. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cazères. Football: Marcel Lanfranchi, le prince des Capucins nous a quittés , ladepeche.fr
  3. ↑ Olympic Football Tournament 1948 - National Squads , linguasport.com
  4. ↑ Jean LAFRANCHI , omstatsclub.com
  5. ^ Jean Lanfranchi complete profile ( memento from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
  6. ↑ Quelques anciennes gloires de l'US CAZERES (PROS et INTERNATIONALAUX) , lesainesdeluscazeres.fr
  7. ↑ Jean LAFRANCHI , om1899.com
personal data
SURNAME Lanfranchi, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2017