Jean Robin (soccer player)

Jean Robin (born July 25, 1921 in Marseille , France , † October 8, 2004 ibid) was a French football player and coach who was exclusively under contract with his home club Olympique Marseille .

biography

Because his father Pierre Robin (club president 1945/46) was already a passionate Olympian , he signed a membership application for Jean on the day of his birth.

The talented striker Jean Robin was named the best young player of 1939 right at the start of his career (1938/39 season) and won the French Cup with Olympique in 1943 and the championship five years later .

After the end of his active career at the end of the 1952/53 season, he worked three times as head coach of Olympique. His first and longest activity between February 1956 and February 1958 spanned a period of two years and heralded an upswing: After Olympique had finished the previous seasons in 14th place (1953/54) and 10th place (1954/55) , the team landed under his direction at the end of the seasons 1955/56 and 1956/57 each in sixth place. But the friendlier Jean Robin did not have the necessary authority to assert himself as the boss of his players. The crew soon fell back into their old lethargy and Robin was released in February 1958. At the end of the following season 1958/59 OM rose for the first time in the club's history in the second division . It was not until 1962 that the promotion succeeded , which promptly led to the next relegation at the end of the 1962/63 season. For the second division season 1963/64 Robin was again obliged as a coach, but missed the hoped-for promotion with fifth place at the end of the season and was dismissed again. OM only made it up in 1966 under Robin's successor Mario Zatelli , after the 1964/65 second division season ended with a disappointing 14th place. A third and last mail he coached the club between February and September 1980 at a time when Olympique had to make the way to the second division for the third time in the club's history.

literature

• L'Histoire de l'Olympique de Marseille , Hugo et Compagnie, Paris 2009, p. 181

Web links

• om-passion.com: player statistics