Jules Sbroglia

Jules Sbroglia (born July 10, 1929 in Audun-le-Tiche , † April 21, 2007 ) was a French football player , coach and official.

Player career

Jules Sbroglia started out playing football with a team of Italian immigrants and then with the amateur club Jeunesse Sportive Audunoise in his hometown in the northern Lorraine heavy industrial area . After finishing school, he worked there as a machine setter for the local mining company Société minière des Terres rouges . The middle runner received his first professional contract with neighboring FC Metz after he had reached the final of the national cup with the regional A youth selection. For Metz he was used in 16 first division games in the 1949/50 season ; in the two subsequent seasons he was only considered in the reserve team. Therefore, in 1952 he moved to the second division SCO Angers , with whom he rose to the highest league in 1956. A year later, Sbroglia led his team as team captain in the final of the national cup , in which the SCO was defeated by Toulouse FC 3: 6. Twelve months later, his club finished fourth in the top division - Sbroglia's best finish of his career. Another year later, although Angers had finished the league only on a top midfield, France Football awarded him the Étoile d'Or as the best player of the season ; this title at the time is now also regarded as the French Footballer of the Year award . Although Sbroglia had made it to the junior and B national team, he was never called up in France's senior team.

Jules Sbroglia moved to league rivals Olympique Lyon in 1959 and moved on to FC Rouen in 1960 , with whom he finished the following two seasons in single-digit positions (4th and 9th). From 1962 to 1964 he wore the dress of the second division AS Cherbourg ; then he settled in Clermont-Ferrand , where he worked for Stade Clermontois in 1964/65 and as a player- coach for AS Montferrandaise until 1968 . During his 15-year professional career, he suffered a number of serious injuries, symptomatic of the rough pace in professional football in the 1950s and 1960s; He broke his arm and twice his jaw, repeatedly dislocated his shoulder joint, had to cure two vertebral fractures and was in a coma for three days after a severe traumatic brain injury .

Coaching stations

From 1968 to 1984 he only worked as a coach at AS Montferrandaise; This he led three times from the fourth to the third division , in which the ASM 1970–1978, 1980/81 and 1982–1984 played under his leadership. With Serge Chiesa he also formed a future national player there. Then Sbroglia settled near Perpignan , where he worked as a sports director at FC Perpignan and, in parallel, was involved in coaching the Pyrénées-Orientales district . In the following time he also worked for four years on the Ivory Coast as a "sporting development worker".

Because of his work, a stadium in Perpignan was posthumously named after him. He was also fondly remembered in Auvergne : In 2011 AS Montferrand hosted a large boys' football tournament under the name Tournoi Jules Sbroglia .

Palmarès as a player

• Étoile d'Or as the best player in Division 1 : 1958/59
• Cup finalist: 1957
• 205 first division appearances (4 goals), 199 second division appearances (11 goals)

literature

• 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.
• Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

• Data sheet on the SCO Angers website
• Photos and documents by Jules Sbroglia

Evidence and Notes

1. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 122 and 137
2. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 120
3. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 127
4. ↑ see the information on the website of the Perpignans city administration ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB) 
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