Lucien Jasseron

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Lucien Jasseron (born December 29, 1913 in Saint-Leu, today Arzew , Oran province , † November 15, 1999 in Strasbourg ) was a French football player and coach . He won the French Cup in both roles .

Player career

Lucien Jasseron grew up in Batna in Algeria , which was still French at the time, where he also began playing football. After recovering from severe pneumonia , he represented the colors of the RU Algiers , where he was on a team with Albert Camus, among others . In 1935 he was North African champion with the club . In 1936 he moved to Europe to Le Havre AC , which competed in the professional second division ; with this team the outside runner succeeded in 1938 promotion to the top division . In the same season, the team managed to get into the semi-finals , and Jasseron was appointed to the national team that summer; However, he should have to wait almost seven years for his first game in the blue jersey (see below) . In 1940 the German invasion and the subsequent division of France interrupted his sporting career.

From 1944 the player appeared in the ranks of the Racing Club Paris , with which he could not win a national championship title despite strong teammates like Auguste Jordan , Maurice Dupuis , Oscar Heisserer or Ernest Vaast . In the cup competition, however, Racing reached the final in 1945 and defeated Lille OSC 3-0. Almost at the same time as his first title, Lucien Jasseron was also used in the senior national team. However, his career with the capital club and as a professional footballer ended only a year later.

Player stations

  • in Batna (as a teenager)
  • Racing Universitaire d'Alger (1934–1936 at the latest)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1936–1940, including 1936–1938 in D2)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1944-1946)

In the national team

Lucien Jasseron was one of two players from the first division from Le Havre, who were in the French squad for the 1938 World Cup finals ; At this tournament, however, only Jean Bastien and Raoul Diagne were used on the outside runner positions. Later, the war prevented Jasseron from getting his chance for many years, especially since France only played four A internationals between the summer of 1939 and the beginning of 1945.

In April and May 1945 he came to two missions in the senior national team. When 0: 1 in Lausanne against Switzerland he made together with Jules Bigot the external rotor pair. Then he was also on the pitch of the Wembley Stadium in the 2-2 draw against England and thus had a share in the “conquest of the holy temple”, which is still one of the great French successes.

Coaching career

It was not until 1957 that Lucien Jasseron returned to professional football - both as a player and as a coach at Le Havre AC in the second division. Two years later he celebrated with the team the double success of the first division promotion and the cup win . Although his team needed 210 minutes of the final against FC Sochaux - 2-2 aet and 3-0 in the replay game - the players and their coach signed the Coupe de France's “Book of Records”, because never before had a lower class club succeeded in winning this competition. In the following season Le Havre reached the semi-finals again, but could not defend its title. In 1962, Jasseron's team was relegated to Division 2. At the turn of the year he left Normandy and from January 1963 worked at Olympique Lyon . Olympique finished the following three seasons in the top group of the first division, but here too Jasseron was more successful in the cup than in the championship. In 1963, the club had to bow to AS Monaco (0-0 afterwards and 0-2 in the final ), but the following year OL won the first title in the club's history after a 2-0 final win over Girondins Bordeaux .

In 1965/66 things went worse there for the first time despite a number of national players such as Marcel Aubour , Jean Djorkaeff and Fleury Di Nallo : Lyon ranked just above the relegation places at the end of the season. The club then replaced its coach with Louis Hon , while Jasseron in England looked after the national team at the 1966 World Cup as assistant to Henri Guérin . He then took on an engagement with the Corsican second division SEC Bastia . There, too, Lucien Jasseron managed to rise after two years, where he narrowly failed in the Barrages in 1967 . Although Bastia played a good first division season and ended up sixth in the table, Jasseron's work there ended prematurely: in February 1969 he was in charge of a professional team for the last time.

Then he settled near Lyon . Eleven years later, he was again in charge of an amateur club from Villefranche-sur-Saône . Lucien Jasseron died in 1999, shortly before the age of 86.

Coaching stations

  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1957 – December 1962, including 1957–1959 and 1962/63 [first round] in D2)
  • Olympique Lyonnais (January 1963–1966)
  • French national team (as assistant coach at the 1966 World Cup)
  • Sporting Étoile Club Bastiais (1966 – February 1969, including 1966–1968 in D2)
  • Football Club de Villefranche-sur-Saône (1980/81, amateur league)

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: 1945
  • North African Champion: 1935
  • 2 international caps (no hit) for France; World Cup participant 1938 (not used)

As a trainer

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: 1959, 1964 (and finalist 1963)
  • Assistant coach at the 1966 World Cup
  • 11 European games with Lyon

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 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 145
  2. ^ Roland H. Auvray: Le livre d'or du football pied-noir et north-africain. Maroc – Algérie – Tunisie. Presses du Midi, Toulon 1995, ISBN 2-87867-050-7 , pp. 90 and 94
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 308f.
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 71
  5. ↑ Chaumier, p. 167
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 251

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personal data
SURNAME Jasseron, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Leu, today Arzew ( province of Oran )
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1999
Place of death Strasbourg