Jean Prouff

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Jean Prouff in 1949

Jean Prouff (born September 12, 1919 in Peillac , † February 12, 2008 in Trébeurden or Lannion / Côtes-d'Armor ) was a French football player and coach .

The player Prouff

Club career

The Breton Jean Prouff belongs to the age groups whose first adult years were marked by the German invasion of France and the subsequent occupation. As a teenager, he became the champion of Brittany over 800 meters . Outside the football field, a quiet, reserved person, he was one of the most active on the lawn, as a right runner and playmaker also the one who set the direction for his teams. He is also characterized as “powerful, persistent and resolute”. Prouff's biography also includes this: he is said to have played for no fewer than 11 clubs during his 20 years as a player - but only a part of them can be determined with some certainty. The fact that the six years up to 1945 did not allow for a "smooth" career progression and, moreover, are only incompletely or even incorrectly documented (as on the website of the French Football Association) certainly contributed to this.

From 1936 - at the age of just 17 - he played in the first amateur team of Saint-Pierre Nantes , where he soon attracted attention and was committed in 1938 by SC Fives for the professional game . His first season there ended in midfield. The subsequent 1939/40 season had to be canceled due to the war . From 1940 Prouff became a soldier; whether and where he then kicked back to 1942, is not to identify - at least not at Fives, because he was not in the team that in 1941 the Cup final lost, and a limited point game mode found in any case without the clubs from the Greater Lille held , which was in the "forbidden zone" of France ( zone interdite ). That changed in the 1942/43 season, when Jean Prouff was able to swap the military boots for the football boots again, competed again for the suburban club in Fives' last year before the merger with Lille Olympique and with this took a good third place in the northern season.

In 1944 or 1945 Jean Prouff returned to his homeland in Breton and played for Stade Rennais UC until 1948 , to which he had already belonged as a youth from 1933 to 1936. Here his living conditions stabilized and put him in a position to constantly demonstrate his qualities. With Rennes he reached positions 5, 9 and 10 in the official championship rounds of Division 1 from 1945 onwards . Above all, however, he became a permanent fixture in the national team from 1946 ( see below ).

Therefore, the up-and-coming club Stade de Reims signed him for the 1948/49 season. In the Champagne he continued his good performances, because the environment in Reims was both human and athletic. Coach Henri Roessler let the red and whites play absolutely offensively and had the right players together: in addition to Prouff, who was set up here on half right , Albert Batteux , Bini , Flamion and Pierre Sinibaldi , who had already played against England in 1946 , stormed his Page was leaked. Behind them stood two starters, Penverne (like Prouff Bretone) and Petitfils , and the defensive line in front of goalkeeper Paul Sinibaldi was among the best with Jacowski , Jonquet and Marche that French football had to offer in those years. Prouff, who was used in all 34 league games, as the third-best goalscorer of his team (14 goals this season) also made a significant contribution to the fact that the club and he himself became French football champions for the first time in 1949 . The following year the playmaker was regularly absent from training and only played 10 games for Stade in the first half of the season because he was teaching at the Institut national des sports (INS) in Paris ; therefore Reims sold him in December 1949 for a large amount (we are talking of 2.75 million old Francs ) to the second division club FC Rouen , which, however, missed promotion despite the financial act of violence. With the departure from Reims, the national team career of Jean Prouff ended.

After the short episode at Rouen, he returned to Rennes and Division 1 for two years ; From 1952 he prepared for life afterwards and worked for the lower-class clubs SM Caen and AS Aix-en-Provence before the man in his mid-thirties finally switched to coaching.

Stations

  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1933–1936, as a teenager)
  • Saint-Pierre de Nantes (1936-1938)
  • SC Fives (1938/1939 in D1 and 1942/1943)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1944? –1948, in D1)
  • Stade de Reims (1948 – December 1949, in D1)
  • FC Rouen (January-June 1950)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1950–1952, in D1)
  • Stade Malherbe Caen (1952/53, as player-coach)
  • Association Sportive Aix (1953– ?, as player-coach)

The national player

Between April 1946 and October 1949 Jean Prouff played a total of 17 A-internationals for the Équipe tricolore and also scored a goal there - one that became a "historic" one: it was 1-0 in the surprising 2-1 outsider victory the French against the "football teacher England" on 19 May 1946 an unusually sharp and with Effet trodden, unsustainable rising. In his last three meetings in the dress of the Bleus he was also captain of the team.

The trainer Prouff

After playing as a player-coach in Caen and Aix, he worked abroad and trained Standard Liège as well as for a time, including during the Olympic soccer tournament in 1960 , the Polish national soccer team - a sensation at the time: the "capitalist ex-professional" in the communist Eastern bloc (which is why Jean Prouff there was only listed as an "adviser to the national coach"). 1963 followed a year at his ex-club Stade de Reims , here too the hapless trainer Camille Cottin was formally merely a "technical advisor", but de facto head coach from the middle of the season. In 1964 he returned to his Breton homeland to Stade Rennais UC and worked here with great success for many years: in his first season he led the team to fourth place in the league and won the national cup with them (3: 1 in the final replay match) against Sedan ). He was able to repeat the cup success in 1971 with a 1-0 win over Olympique Lyon . The only national titles of Rennes to date (February 2008) are inextricably linked with the name Jean Prouff. In 1971 he was voted coach of the year . From 1972 he coached the US Berné , led them into the third division and played a major role in ensuring that the "village club" was able to hold onto this level for four years.

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion : 1949 (with Reims)
  • French cup winner : 1950 (with Reims; only used in the first rounds)
  • 17 international caps (13 in his time at Rennes, 4 at Reims), 1 goal
  • around 200 games and 70 goals in Division 1

As a trainer

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Marc Barreaud / Alain Colzy: Les géants du Stade de Reims. Euromedia, Douzy 2012, ISBN 979-10-90217-07-2 , p. 43, and France Football: Les Top 50 des joueurs bretons. Issue 3550 of April 29, 2014, p. 33, Prouff died in Trébeurden .
  2. ^ A b France Football: Les Top 50 des joueurs bretons. Issue 3550 from April 29, 2014, p. 33
  3. ^ Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1 , pp. 128 and 130f.
personal data
SURNAME Prouff, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Peillac , Morbihan department
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2008
Place of death Lannion or Trébeurden , Côtes-d'Armor