Laurent Robuschi

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Laurent Robuschi (born November 5, 1935 in Nice ) is a former French football player .

Club career

Laurent Robuschi played football for two small clubs in his hometown as a child and teenager. Because the "big" Olympique Gymnaste Club was not interested in him, he signed a professional contract with the first division club AS Monaco in 1954 at the age of 18 . There, however, due to competition from offensive players such as Henri Skiba , Stéphane Bruey , Julien Stopyra and Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , he only made eight league appearances in two years, but contributed three goals to Monaco's third place in the table in the 1955/56 season. That is why he then moved to another club - again only a few kilometers further - and played for the second division AS Cannes until 1959 . The ASC regularly only occupied places at the bottom of the table, but the very small, stocky left winger was a regular there and scored a total of 41 goals for his club in Division 2 . Then in 1959 the first division Girondins Bordeaux secured Robuschi's services, and far from his native Mediterranean coast he finally developed into a "spirited, always enthusiastic striker who put pressure on the opposing defensive lines with his toxic style of play [and] earned himself a reputation".

However, the Girondins played a very weak season in 1959/60 despite some strong teammates ( Xercès Louis , Gunnar Andersson ), at the end of which they had to relegate to the second division as bottom of the table. Laurent Robuschi was not to blame for that, as the newcomer had scored 20 goals for Bordeaux and thus secured a respectable eighth place among all league chasers . In 1962 he made his debut in the French national team (see below) - still as a second division player - and returned a few weeks later with the Girondins Bordeaux in the top division. In the following five years his team developed into a top team there, which with one exception never finished worse than fourth place and twice ( 1965 and 1966 , each behind FC Nantes ) even became runner-up . Although Laurent Robuschi now took on the role of a goal setter for his co-workers Héctor De Bourgoing and Didier Couécou , he made a name for himself again in this function with 18 goals in the 1965/66 season and was again the eighth best league hunter. In the national cup , Bordeaux had also come a long way several times during these years; In 1961 , the Girondins had reached the semi-finals as the second division and only failed in the replay at the eventual cup winner UA Sedan-Torcy , who scored the winning goal after Laurent Robuschi had just hit the Sedan goal post . In 1964 the Girondins even reached the final; Robuschi, now team captain , remained a title but was also denied this competition because final opponents Olympique Lyon got the upper hand with 2-0.

Also at the European level, in the trade fair cup , he played seven games between 1964 and 1967 ( 1964/65 against Borussia Dortmund , 1965/66 against Sporting Lisbon and 1966/67 against FC Porto and ARA Gent ), with him in the first leg at Porto (1 : 2) a goal that was important for the Girondins to advance. In the summer of 1967, after eight years - seven of them under coach Salvador Artigas  - with exactly 200 appearances and 84 goals of his own in the first division, Laurent Robuschi turned his back on Bordeaux .

It pulled him back to the Mediterranean, where he stormed for Olympique Marseille . The Phocéens - a term used well into the 21st century for the city's residents and Olympiques players - found themselves on their way to the top of the national league after years of unsuccessfulness and had a number of talented and well-known footballers such as Marcel Artelesa and Jean Djorkaeff , Jacques Novi , Joseph Bonnel and the goal scorer Joseph Yegba Maya . At the end of the season, Marseille finished fourth, Robuschi had played 26 games in Division 1 and scored three goals. When the club announced the commitment of another winger ( Roger Magnusson ) for the following season , he ended his professional career and instead laced the boots for the amateurs of Antibes FC . There he was active as a player- coach until 1975 and then, as a nearly 40-year-old, concentrated entirely on the activity off the sidelines. At Antibes he remained a coach for another 18 years before taking early retirement in 1993 and settling on the Côte d'Azur .

Stations

  • 1948–1952: La Semeuse Nice (as a teenager)
  • 1953/54: ASPTT Nice (as a teenager)
  • 1954–1956: AS Monaco
  • 1956–1959: AS Cannes (in D2)
  • 1959–1967: Girondins Bordeaux (of which 1960–1962 in D2)
  • 1967/68: Olympique Marseille
  • 1968–1993: FC Antibes (in the amateur field, until 1975 as a player-coach, then as a coach)

In the national team

Beginning in May 1962 appointed national coach Albert Batteux Laurent Robuschi during a friendly against Italy for the first time in the A-national team . Batteux's successor Henri Guérin also resorted to the Girondins winger in autumn this year, first in a qualifying match for the European Championship against England , then in a 2-2 draw at the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart against the West German team . In the next almost four years, Guérin only called him one more time, but brought him into the French squad for the 1966 World Cup ; in England, however, Robuschi was not used because the Sélectionneur gave preference to Gérard Hausser on the left wing position . In November 1966 Robuschi came against Luxembourg - again a European Championship qualifier  - for his fifth and last international match, all of which he had played abroad; he hadn't managed to hit one in the blue national jersey.

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1965, 1966
  • French cup finalist: 1964
  • 234 point games / 91 hits in D1, 162/72 in D2

literature

  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-9519605-3-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ November 5 in Chaumier, p. 258, L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 377, and footballdatabase.eu; according to his FFF data sheet and afterfoot.fr on October 5th
  2. ↑ on the early years cf. the biography at afterfoot.fr (see under web links ), there under "Sa vie, son œuvre"
  3. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 258
  4. ↑ This and the other information on this classification from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 154-167.
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 377
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 380
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , p. 235
  8. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 243
  9. ↑ after Robuschi's biography at afterfoot.fr (see under web links ), there under "Sa vie, son œuvre"
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 322/323
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 325f.
  12. ↑ First division appearances according to 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, n.d.; Second division numbers according to footballdatabase.eu (see under web links )
personal data
SURNAME Robuschi, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice