Léon Glovacki

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Léon Glovacki (born February 19, 1928 in Libercourt , Département Pas-de-Calais , † September 9, 2009 in Geneva ), seldom also spelled Léon Glowacki , was a French football player .

The club career

The blonde son of an immigrant Polish miner attracted attention at his club in Douai soon after the end of the Second World War and was initially signed by AS Troyes before moving to Stade de Reims , the top European club of the 1950s, in 1952 . Glovacki got along almost blind from the start, especially with Reims' playmaker Raymond Kopa ; the half-right was fast, dangerous, had a strong header and had a good eye for the game situation. In just five years with Reims, he played around 160 first division games, was twice French champion and once runner-up and was part of the team that only narrowly lost the first ever final for the European Cup in the summer of 1956 (3: 4) against Real Madrid .

Then he moved - because he was looking for new challenges in a new environment - together with Michel Hidalgo to AS Monaco and from there to AS Saint-Étienne , which reached the French Cup final in 1960, but lost to the Monegas of all places. Then Léon Glovacki returned to Reims, played 33 first division games for the red and whites from Champagne and finally became national champion for a third time.

Stations

  • Douai
  • AS Troyes-Savinienne (until 1952)
  • Stade de Reims (1952–1957)
  • AS Monaco (1957-1959)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1959/60)
  • Stade de Reims (1960–1962)

The national player

Between September 1953 and December 1955, Léon Glovacki played a total of eleven times in the Equipe Tricolore and scored three goals. In the 1954 World Cup , which was so disappointing for France , he was used in the game against Yugoslavia . As his personal, not only sporting high point, he always described the first game of the Bleus beyond the Iron Curtain (October 1955 in Moscow , 2-2 against the USSR ) and the direct duel with the great Igor Netto .

Life after an active career

Glovacki later worked temporarily as a trainer and then in the real estate industry. In Geneva , the new center of his life , he sold houses and luxury properties. He also died in Geneva in 2009 at the age of 81.

Palmarès

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
  • 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
personal data
SURNAME Glovacki, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Libercourt
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2009
Place of death Geneva