Joseph Jadrejak

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Joseph Jadrejak (born February 20, 1918 in Gladbeck as Joseph Jadrzejczak , † November 24, 1990 in Saint-André-lez-Lille ) was a Polish-born French football player and coach . With six appearances in finals for the Coupe de France during the 1940s - where he was three times in the cup winners' eleven - he is one of only three players to this day (2012) to hold the French record in this regard.

Club career

Joseph Jadrejak was one of the large number of Polish immigrants who came  to the northern French mining and industrial region, especially in the 1920s - and often after a stopover in the Ruhr area . The Jadrejaks had immigrated from the Westphalian town of Gladbeck to the area around Bruay , and all male family members worked underground for the Compagnie des mines de Bruay . In addition to school and work, he himself played football, initially at two “ buddy clubs ” in the neighboring towns of Houdain and Divion , and then as a teenager at the US Ouvrière Bruaysienne ; with this strong amateur team, Jadrejak reached the national main round of the Coupe de France in both 1937/38 and 1938/39 . Usually, the next step in the career of a talented footballer led from there to the neighboring Racing Club Lens , which was also supported and controlled by the mining company. But in this case, its league rival SC Fives from Lille 30 km to the north - Lens had ended the 1938/39 season in seventh place, Fives in ninth place - around the tall, “extremely tough, strong and efficient duel Defense attorney “tried to get a commitment from him and enforced his claim in a legal dispute with Lens.

However, game operations were severely affected by the political circumstances of the outbreak of war : in September 1939 there was also mobilization in France , from which football players were not excluded. This meant that the highest division had to be divided into three regional groups; the clubs from the northern and eastern border regions, including Fives, could no longer take part, not even after the German invasion in 1940 and the subsequent partition of France. That is why Joseph Jadrejak and his team only played games in the region until 1942 and, if they qualified, were only allowed to cross the inner-French borders in the last rounds of the cup competition. In the 1940/41 Cup , Fives first prevailed in the so-called Zone interdite ("prohibited zone") and then met Girondins AS du Port from Bordeaux in the national final  - Jadrejak's first of six cup finals of his career, in which he played with his SC 0 : 2 defeated. From 1942 Fives, whose dress some well-known footballers such as Norbert Van Caeneghem , Édouard Wawrzyniak or Jean Prouff wore during the war years , could again participate in the division 1 championship and finished the season as third in the northern group. The following year, Jadrejak, like other players from Fives and OIC Lille , no longer played for his club, but for the Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres ; the French government , which was opposed to professional sport, had created 16 such “national teams” across the country, whose players were now paid as state employees. Lille-Flandres was second behind the ÉF Lens-Artois ; however, this runner-up, like all “war championship titles ” between 1939/40 and 1944/45 and unlike in the cup competition, does not count as an official title in France . In 1944 he returned to professional clubs - for Joseph Jadrejak and some other strong Fivois , however, it was no longer the SCF, because at the beginning of the season it merged with local rivals Olympique Iris Club for financial reasons and adopted the name Lille OSC .

After the liberation of the country, the wedding of the LOSC began under the coaches George Berry and (from 1946) André Cheuva , who created a closed team out of the merging clubs, made up of, among others, Fives François Bourbotte , Marceau Somerlinck , Boleslaw Tempowski , René Bihel and Jadrejak, from the OIC, included Jules Bigot , Jean Lechantre , Jean Baratte , Roger Vandooren , Jean-Marie Prévost and Jacques Grimonpon . In 1944/45, the team only finished fifth in the Northern League and were clearly defeated in the cup final - Jadrejak's second - against Racing Paris , but twelve months later they became French champions , won the cup final again and thus also won the doublé . The trophy remained in Lille's clubhouse for the next two years, and "Jadrejak enjoyed every lap of honor he was allowed to turn [after winning the finals over Red Star Olympique , Racing Strasbourg and Racing Lens]." In 1949 the LOSC reached the cup final for the fifth time in a row; this time the opponent was again Racing Paris, and as in 1945 the capital club clearly retained the upper hand. Joseph Jadrejak scored his only goal in the final, with which he overcame his own goalkeeper Félix Witkowski to the interim 0: 5 (final score 2: 5). In Division 1 , Lille was also runner-up in 1948, 1949 and 1950.

The defensive player, who was cautious off the pitch, enjoyed a high reputation with his teammates; therefore he belonged in December 1949, together with team captain Prévost and Baratte, to the “players' council” determined by them, which should campaign against club president Louis Henno for an increase in their comparatively low salaries. When the autocratic chairman did not respond, and even threatened to sell them to other clubs - which he had actually done in a similar situation in 1946 with François Bourbotte - the team reacted with a boycott of the game, which Henno then forced to give in. Joseph Jadrejak ended his active career in the summer of 1950, during which he won four official titles and, like Marceau Somerlinck and Jean Baratte, made six French cup finals - a record that will last into the 21st century.

Stations

  • before 1937: in Houdain and Divion (as a youth)
  • 1937–1939: USO Bruay (in the amateur field)
  • 1939-1943: SC Fives
  • 1943/44: Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres
  • 1944-1950: Lille Olympique SC
  • from 1950: in Saint-André-lez-Lille (as a player-coach in the amateur field)

In the national team

In May and June 1947, Joseph Jadrejak played three full international matches for France . Against the Netherlands (4: 0) and Belgium (4: 2) and in Switzerland (2: 1) he was in the right defensive position for 90 minutes, but although the Bleus won all three friendly matches, the association selection committee did not consider him afterwards more.

Life after player time

Jadrejak then took care of his café in Saint-André-lez-Lille, which he had owned since the mid-1940s - a circumstance that earned him the nickname “Baker of Saint-André” - and was involved as a “girl for everything ”, including as a player-coach with the local amateur team. He later coached JA Armentières , also an amateur club from the outskirts of Lille, for seven years . He also returned to Lille OSC: in the 1969/70 season he was the coach in charge of its league eleven, which at the time was only represented in the top amateur class and which he led back to the second division at the end of the season . In 1990 Joseph Jadrejak, 72 years old, died in Saint-André.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1946 (and runner-up in 1944 [unofficially], 1948, 1949, 1950)
  • French Cup Winner: 1946, 1947, 1948 (and finalist 1941, 1945, 1949)

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997, ISBN 2-84253-080-2
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 429
  2. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 134
  3. ↑ See in particular the study by Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". (in the bibliography).
  4. ↑ Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004, ISBN 2-03-505420-6 , p. 166
  5. ↑ a b Hurseau / Verhaeghe, Les immortels du football nordiste, p. 73
  6. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC, p. 65
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 145; A photo of Jadrejak during the lap of honor after the final of 1947 can be found in Hurseau / Verhaeghe, Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC, p. 85
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 365
  9. ↑ this characterization of Hennos e.g. after Cornu, p. 78
  10. ^ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 146f .; Cornu, p. 91
  11. ↑ after Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 310
  13. ↑ Cornu, p. 85
  14. ↑ Cornu, p. 90
personal data
SURNAME Jadrejak, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jadrzejczak, Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1990
Place of death Saint-André-lez-Lille , France