José Arribas

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José Arribas (born January 16, 1921 in Bilbao , Spain , † September 28, 1989 in France ) was a coach who was practically active throughout his career in French football , briefly as a national coach. His name is particularly associated with the sporting rise of FC Nantes since the 1960s.

The soccerplayer

Arribas came to Nantes from the Basque Country at the age of 14 or 15, apparently without his parents, shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , after the port authorities in Bordeaux and La Rochelle had refused to allow the refugee steamer to be moored. He took his first athletic steps in his new home with small clubs, among others. a. in Saint-Jean-d'Angély and from 1948 to 1952 with today's first division club Union Sportive du Mans , which at the time only competed in the amateur field.

The trainer

In the club

From 1952 José Arribas worked as a player- coach , first with the US Servannaise-Malouine and a club from Noyen-sur-Sarthe , two amateur league teams . In the latter, after the World Cup in 1958, he introduced the 4-2-4 system brought to perfection by Brazil - at a time when the World Cup system was still preferred in France . At Noyen, he didn't necessarily find the right players, but the example shows his openness to innovations. In addition, he earned his living running a café.

In 1960 the second division FC Nantes brought Arribas, and here he found a young, talented team with whom he could implement and develop his ideas of "beautiful football". Arribas has summarized these ideas in three words: "Speed, technique, game intelligence" ; Today it is a matter of course in top football if its players should be constantly on the move and thereby gain numerical excess weight at any time and in any area of ​​the playing field. He named Bill Shankly , manager of Liverpool FC, as his role model . In the following 16 years on the sidelines of Stade Marcel-Saupin, the coach perfected what is still known today as jeu à la nantaise ( Nantaisian style of play , with an emphasis on the game ) - and he showed that appearance and success need not be a contradiction in terms .

In 1963 he was promoted to Division 1 with the Canaris (as FC Nantes is called because of its yellow clothing) , which the club has not had to leave since, and only two years later he became French champions for the first time . Football 65 magazine wrote at the time: “Arribas created the Nantes team in his own image - an image of mutual loyalty and support, a love of attacking football , a good game and humility in success, the weapons that made it possible for the club to step into the top of French football in the shadow of the shadow. "

A year later, FC Nantes defended the title, in 1967 he was runner-up behind AS Saint-Étienne : the era of the "yellow" and "green" ( les Verts is the nickname Saint-Étiennes), which until around 1980 shared the French Dominating the league had started. In the cup , the "canaries" were not quite as successful: in 1966, 1970 and 1973 they were in the final - but which they left as a loser every time. 1973 Arribas succeeded with the FCN but the third win of the league championship, and with five points ahead of the second, OGC Nice . He was also  on the sidelines in a total of 20 games at European level - eight each in the European Champion Clubs 'Cup and eight in the UEFA Cup , four in the 1970/71 Cup Winners' Cup ; at the latest, however, was the last sixteen.

José Arribas formed two generations of players in Nantes, many of whom later worked as coaches and passed on the impressions they had experienced themselves to the younger ones - often at FC Nantes itself, which was praised early on for its excellent youth development. In the 1960s, Jean-Claude Suaudeau , Philippe Gondet , Jacky Simon , Ramón Muller , Gabriel De Michèle and Robert Budzynski were among the core of the successful group. In the 1970s, Henri Michel , Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes , Maxime Bossis , the German goalscorer Erich Maas , who played and scored here from 1970 to 1975, and Oscar Muller , the son of Ramón Muller, were joined by others. Arribas' own son Claude also played in the first team from 1969, as did Roger Lemerre , another later coach.

When the club only offered the coach a one-year contract extension in 1976 after a mixed season ("only" fourth in the first division), he moved to Olympique Marseille . There, however, only a midfield jumped out, while Nantes won their fourth championship under Arribas' long-term successor Jean Vincent .

José Arribas, who was dismissed in Marseille a few game days before the end of the season, went to Lille OSC for the 1977/78 season . At this club, which had just been relegated to Division 2 and which therefore had a number of regular players, he once again formed a new team of young kickers, and at the end of this season his team was second division champions and returned to the upper house of football. 1978/79 succeeded the climber a sixth place in the final classification; in the following years, Lille finished in the middle of the table. In 1983 he met FC Nantes in the cup semi-finals with LOSC, to which his team had to bow with 0: 1 and 1: 1. Arribas, who had been suffering from a serious illness for a long time, ended his work as a coach in the summer of this year. His Canaris then employed him in the identification and recruitment of young talent.

Arribas died at the age of 69. The education and training center of FC Nantes, la Jonelière in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre , is now called Center Sportif José Arribas .

In the national team

After the World Cup in England , which was disappointing for the Equipe tricolore , the French Football Association dismissed national coach Henri Guérin . He did not immediately find what he was looking for in the follow-up question and asked the two most successful club coaches , Jean Snella from Saint-Étienne (already co-coach of Albert Batteux at the 1958 World Cup ) and José Arribas, to take over this position for a transitional period in the late summer of 1966 . Both of them are known to have preferred to focus on their club, but in the end they both allowed themselves to be held accountable. From September 1966 to the turn of the year 1966/67 Arribas was also the national coach; in four international matches, including three qualifying matches for the 1968 European Championship , his and Snella's record was even with two wins and two defeats. Her successor was Just Fontaine , who was replaced by Louis Dugauguez after only two encounters .

Stations

  • Union Sportive Saint-Servan-Saint-Malo (1952–1954)
  • Noyen-sur-Sarthe (1954-1960)
  • FC Nantes (1960–1976)
  • French senior team (September to November 1966, interim; together with Jean Snella )
  • Olympique de Marseille (1976/77)
  • Lille Olympique SC (1977-1983)

Palmarès

literature

  • Gérard Ejnès / L'Équipe: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): FC Nantes Atlantique. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-915-53504-3

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personal data
SURNAME Arribas, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao , Spain
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1989
Place of death France