Louis Gabrillargues

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Louis Gabrillargues (born June 16, 1914 in Montpellier , † November 30, 1994 ) was a French football player and coach .

As a player in the club

The 177 centimeter tall defensive midfielder Gabrillargues grew up in Montpellier, attended high school there and won the national football cup for schools with the school team in 1931. It was not the city club SO Montpellier , but the regional rival FC Sète , like Montpellier in the first division, where he made the leap into professional football in 1933 . Coach René Dedieu , who had organized the signing of the then 19-year-old, relied on him from the start and so the young player became an integral part of the team. His first year in professional sport was also his most successful, as he won the national championship with Sète in 1934 and made it into the national cup final in 1934 , which brought him and his teammates another title thanks to a 2-1 win over Olympique Marseille .

In the years after the double success, the young footballer remained loyal to Sète and was the undisputed regular player in a team that, despite good performance, was unable to build on the successful year 1934. In 1937 he moved from the city on the Mediterranean coast to league rivals EAC Roubaix in the far north of the country. However, since he was unable to assert himself permanently in this one, he turned his back on Roubaix a year later and signed with FC Sochaux, who also played first-class . His stay was even shorter than the one in Roubaix, as he had the next move follow in November 1938 and, through his commitment to SR Colmar, moved into the second division. Although he was back in the first team of the Alsatians, the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939 meant the temporary end of regular play.

With Olympique Nîmes , it was a club from his home region of Languedoc in 1940 that brought him to his team and enabled him to participate in the unofficial championship event. From 1942 on he took over the role of a player's coach while continuing his playing career. Nothing changed in 1945 when regular play was resumed and he took up with Nîmes in the 1945/46 season in the second division. During this season there were problems with his employer because the club did not pay the salaries in part. In 1946, in the year of his 32nd birthday, the professional decided to end his career after 127 first division matches with nine goals, 43 second division matches with three goals and other unofficial first division matches during the war.

National team

As a member of the championship and cup winners' eleven that same year, Gabrillargues was appointed to the French squad for the 1934 World Cup shortly before his 20th birthday . Even if he was not used during the tournament and had to see how his comrades were eliminated in the first round, he made his debut in the national jersey in the same year when he won 3-2 on December 16, 1934 was called up in a friendly against Yugoslavia. From then on there were regular appointments to the national team until he was 22 years old for the last time for France on January 24, 1937. Accordingly, he no longer took part in the 1938 World Cup in his own country . He could not score a goal in a total of nine international matches.

Coaching career and later life

After he had been the player's coach at Nîmes from 1942, his career as a player ended at the same time as his playing career in 1946. In the same year he took over the coaching position at an amateur club from La Rochelle . Because a legal dispute over unpaid salaries with Nîmes resulted in a temporary ban on the profession, he had to give up his post there after a short time. Between 1956 and 1963 he coached the AAJ Blois and in the season 1968/69 he worked for FC Montceau . From 1960 to 1971 he then worked as a functionary of the Burgundy Region Sports Federation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Football: Louis Gabrillargues , footballdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ a b c d e Louis Gabrillargues complete profile , soccerdatabase.eu
  3. ↑ Louis Gabrillargues - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  4. ↑ Joueur - Louis GABRILLARGUES , fff.fr
  5. ^ France - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs , rsssf.com
personal data
SURNAME Gabrillargues, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier , France
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1994