Jean Vincent

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Jean Vincent (born November 29, 1930 in Labeuvrière / Nord , † August 13, 2013 in Nantes ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

The fast and accurate left winger , who played for the amateur clubs ES Labeuvrière and US Auchel during his youth and u. a. Together with Raymond Kopaszewski , who was of the same age, he was a regular in the northern French regional youth team, his professional career began in the 1950/51 season at Olympique Lille , the big club from his home country, in the top division, Division 1 . In 1951 he became a regular there despite competition from Jean Lechantre and won the cup competition with the Lillois in 1953 , the championship in 1954 and the cup again in 1955. As early as 1953, he was called up for the first time in the national team and in 1955 in the European selection ("rest of the continent"), which England beat.

In mid-1956, coach Albert Batteux brought him to Stade de Reims , which had been in the first final of the European Cup a few weeks earlier . Together with the national players Just Fontaine , Roger Piantoni and René Bliard , Jean Vincent formed an attacking formation that was one of the very best in Europe until the early 1960s (and which Raymond Kopa returned to in 1959 ). Stade Reims was almost unrivaled in France: with this "team" Vincent was national champion in 1958, 1960 and 1962, and vice-champion in 1963, won the 1958 Cup (Coupe de France) and Supercup and in 1959 reached the European Cup final again. The basic structure of the national team, which finished third in the 1958 World Cup, was made up of players from Reims: the defenders Robert Jonquet , Roger Marche and Armand Penverne were the main players in the Bleus . In 1961, Jean Vincent ended his international and in 1964 his club career as a player.

Stations as a player

  • Union Sportive d'Auchel (until 1950)
  • Olympique Lille (1950–1956)
  • Stade de Reims (1956–1964)

National player

As early as 1949, Jean Vincent had become European junior champion with the French national youth team in Amsterdam . Between December 1953 and October 1961 he played a total of 46 times in the Equipe Tricolore (12 games for Lille, 34 for Reims) and scored 22 goals. In five of these internationals he was also the team captain. He took part in the World Cup finals in Switzerland (1954) and Sweden (1958) (eight appearances, two goals), finished third with France in 1958 and stormed the European Football Championship in 1960 (two games, one goal ).

Vincent as a trainer

After his extremely successful active time, Jean Vincent worked for a long time and at a similarly high level as a football teacher . In particular, his time at FC Nantes (twice French champions, once cup winners, with a 60% win rate) until 1982 and his participation as national coach of Cameroon at the 1982 World Cup (the World Cup newcomer was eliminated undefeated after the preliminary round) are lasting memories because Vincent made an excellent picture on both sides of the outer line. In 1980 he was voted coach of the year . His ex-coach in the club and national team, Albert Batteux, answered a question from journalists around 1970 which of all the players he coached would make the best coach without hesitation: “Jean Vincent, because he is the one who drives football best observed ”.

After his last position as Tunisian national coach, he built a football school for young people, which was continued by FC Nantes from 1995. Jean Vincent lived as a pensioner in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins on the Loire estuary.

Stations as a trainer

Palmarès

As a player

As a trainer

literature

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Vincent, ex-entraîneur du FC Nantes, est mort
  2. ↑ Article "Jean Vincent - a great man in the shadow of the giants" in France Football of August 20, 2013, p. 40
  3. ↑ France Football of July 14, 2009, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Vincent, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Labeuvriere , France
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2013
Place of death Nantes , France