Julien Stopyra

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Julien Stopyra (born January 10, 1933 in Montceau-les-Mines , † January 25, 2015 in Guidel ) was a French football player .

Athletic career

The striker Stopyra began his playing career at the US Blanzy-Montceau in the highest amateur class , from where he moved to RC Lens at the young age of 18 in 1951 , which had been promoted to Division 1 two years earlier . After establishing himself as a regular player in his second season and scoring nine goals in 33 games of the season, he became a real goal-getter in the following season and was one of the most successful attacking players in the French championship with 17 goals. While the club initiated a new series of attacks with players like Maryan Wisnieski , Michel Stievenard , the Austrian Olympian from 1948 Erich Habitzl and the former Swedish player Egon Jönsson (football player, 1926) , which gave the workers' club a golden era with several runners-up championships, he switched in 1954 within the French elite class to AS Monaco . There, the only 1.66 meter tall offensive player was no longer as dangerous as in his previous station. After a 14th place in the table in the first year, he managed the club in 1956 as third in the table - he himself had scored nine goals during the season - the best placement in the club's history to date.

In 1957, Stopyra moved on to the two-time French champions FC Sochaux , for which he should play three seasons in Division 1. In 1959 he stood with the team in the final for the Coupe de France 1958/59 against Le Havre AC , which was only decided in a replay. After a 2-2 draw after extra time in the regular final game, in which the alleged 3-2 opening goal of his teammate Yngve Brodd was not recognized because of the half-time whistle of extra time by referee Jean-Louis Groppi in the shot, the team had to fight to give team captain René Gardien in the new edition scheduled two weeks later, clearly beaten with a 3-0 defeat. In the following season she rose from fourth from bottom of the table in the second-rate division 2 .

Stopyra moved after relegation to AS Troyes , where he came to an international match for the Equipe tricolore in October 1960 . The clash with the Swiss national team lost the French selection 2: 6. At his new club, however, the same fate befell him at the end of his first season and as bottom of the table with only five wins this season, he went into the second division. As fifth in the table, he narrowly missed direct promotion with the team, and with 20 goals this season, he missed the award as top scorer, one goal behind Serge Masnaghetti . In the summer of 1961 he moved to Olympique Marseille , the club was promoted to Division 1 as fourth with three points ahead of Troyes. His stay here lasted only a short time, after only half a year he moved on to the relegation battle with fellow promoted FC Grenoble . Here he was relegated for the third time in his career from the first division, again he missed promotion as sixth in the table. He then left US Forbach for two years in Division 2 before ending his active career in the amateur field at FC Lorient .

From 1967 Stopyra was player-coach at the amateur club FC Dieppe . In 1970 he took over the coaching position at USSC Redon .

Stopyra's son Yannick was also a soccer player and took part in the 1986 World Cup, where France was third to win a medal.