Louis Dugauguez

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Louis Dugauguez (born February 21, 1918 in Thénac , Département Charente-Maritime , † September 22, 1991 in Sedan ) was a French football coach who was also responsible for the French national team from 1967 to 1968 .

Club career

The educated educator, who grew up in northern France , had played soccer himself from 1934, but exclusively as an amateur, including at Stade Béthune (1934-1938) - there he won the first of two French amateur championship titles in 1938 -, RC Lens (1938-1942) and Toulouse FC (1943). He was also used in the amateur national team of France. From 1948 to 1952 he worked as a player- coach at UA Sedan-Torcy , which during this time also played below the professional leagues; his greatest success in this function was the quarter-finals in the national cup competition in 1949/50, when they failed 2-0 at the eventual cup winners Stade Reims . He was also again French amateur champion with UAST 1951.

From 1952 he concentrated entirely on the coaching position - and held this post in Sedan continuously until 1973. Under his leadership, the team rose to Division 2 for the first time in 1953 , after the club's management had decided shortly before to give the club a professional statute. However, almost without exception, the players worked on the side in a local factory. In 1955, these "working class footballers" managed to climb to the top division under Dugauguez , and in 1956 the coach led them to their first national title, winning the Coupe de France (3-1 in the final over AS Troyes-Savinienne ). In 1961 he managed to win this trophy again; Sedan was again 3-1 ahead at the final whistle of the final, this time against Olympique Nîmes . In 1965, the Sangliers - "the wild boars" is a common term in France for footballers from the densely wooded Ardennes  - stood in the cup final for a third time; after the match was 2-2 after extra time, the replay ended 3-1, this time for Sedan's opponent, the Stade Rennais UC .

In the league it was never enough in the era of Monsieur Louis to a championship , but the UA Sedan-Torcy (from 1966 due to a merger temporarily RC Paris-Sedan and from 1970 CS Sedan ) played continuously in Division 1 until 1971 and returned 1972 in this back. The club's best placements under Dugauguez were two third (1963, 1970) and four fifth (1958, 1962, 1967, 1969) positions in the final table. After the football coach after 25 years had given up his coaching job, the stadium of the city was Sedan in Stade Louis Dugauguez renamed, and so it is today (2008) still.

National coach

In 1952 the French association FFF appointed Dugauguez to coach the country's amateur national team; from 1955 he looked after the youth national team (Espoirs) of the FFF. In September 1967, he took over from the hapless Just Fontaine , the senior team . At the start, the Équipe tricolore managed a brilliant 4-1 victory against Poland in Warsaw (qualifying game for the European Championship 1968 ) under his leadership . Even if Dugauguez warned after the game “Let's not have any illusions!” - just 10 days later, France suffered a 5-1 defeat in a friendship match against Germany . In four subsequent European Championship qualifiers, the Bleus under Louis Dugauguez - who, as was common in France at the time, did not exercise this post full-time, but only alongside his club activities - only managed one victory against Luxembourg and they missed the European Championship finals. After three more winless internationals, including a 1-1 draw against Germany, but also a 0-1 home defeat against Norway in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup , the FFF dismissed the coach at the end of 1968, who succeeded Georges Boulogne . Nevertheless, in February 1969 he was still in charge of the Équipe tricolore in a friendly against Hungary .

Purely in terms of the results, his work for the A-team was unsuccessful: only two wins, four draws and four defeats were recorded. However, the balance sheets of its predecessors and successors hardly looked better, because between 1960 and the mid-1970s French football was at most second-rate internationally and could not qualify for a single major tournament between 1966 and 1978; L'Équipe, for example, hit the headlines about Boulogne's successor Ștefan Kovács in 1975: "Kovacs with his back to the wall". Louis Dugauguez had the courage to innovate; For the game against Poland he brought back some old national players who had not been considered recently, but he put a total of 34 players (including several debutants), and only four of them ( Djorkaeff and Bosquier ten each, Baeza and Loubet nine times each) stood in more than six games under his leadership on the lawn.

Palmarès

As a player

  • French amateur champion: 1938, 1951

As a trainer

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'Équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 327
  2. ↑ http://www.cssedan.com/v4/club/histoire.shtml
  3. ↑ http://www.cssedan.com/v4/club/histoire1.shtml
  4. ^ Article in L'Équipe of September 18, 1967, facsimile in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 119
  5. ↑ This last (10th) game by Dugauguez was later rated as an official international game by the FFF (L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 328), but does not appear on the association's website either for Dugauguez or Boulogne; see. http://www.fff.fr/servfff/historique/selectionneur.php?id=BOULOGNE
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 126
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 327/328

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personal data
SURNAME Dugauguez, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Thénac (Charente-Maritime)
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1991
Place of death Sedan