Lucien Leduc

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Lucien Leduc 1971

Lucien Leduc (born December 30, 1918 in Le Portel , Pas-de-Calais department , † July 17, 2004 in Annecy ) was a French football player and coach . In both functions, he has become French champion (five titles in total) and cup winner (three titles) as well as one winner of the Moroccan league .

Player career

In his clubs

The northern French, who appeared as a left runner or half-left , began his professional career in 1937 with the second division club US Boulogne . When the Second World War broke out , Lucien Leduc had just switched to SO Montpellier , who was playing in the southeast group of the tripartite first division , when Leduc became a soldier during the German invasion of France . In 1941/42, with FC Sète , he was in a national cup final for the first time - in contrast to the championship, the cup competitions are still official during the war years - which his team lost 2-0 to Red Star Paris . This was followed by engagements at Excelsior Roubaix , AS Clermont and for the Équipe Fédérale Paris-Capitale, one of the sixteen regional selections that played for the championship in 1943/44.

After the liberation of the country, he played a season with Red Star, with which he advanced to the French Cup final; despite a Leduc goal, his team was defeated 2: 4 against OSC Lille . The "tireless driver" also became a national player during this time. Nevertheless, he returned to northern France for the 1946/47 season and won, u. a. at the side of Julien Darui , Heinrich Hiltl , Camillo Jerusalem and Stanislas "Staho" Laczny , surprisingly the championship of Division 1 with CO Roubaix-Tourcoing. Two and a half years at RC Paris followed ; In 1949 he moved into a cup final again - again the opponent was OSC Lille - and in this, his third attempt, it finally worked out to win the Coupe de France. From the turn of the year 1949/1950 he was one of the first French to offer his playing skills in Italy , in the dress of AC Venice ; In 1951, however, he returned to his native country, initially played six months for AS Saint-Étienne and then prepared as a player-coach at the lower-class FC Annecy for his future work off the sidelines.

Stations

  • Stade Portelois (1930–1937, as a teenager)
  • Union Sportive de Boulogne (1937–1939, in D2)
  • Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1939/40)
  • Football Club de Sète (1941/42)
  • Excelsior AC Roubaix (1942/43)
  • Association Sportive Clermontoise (1943)
  • Équipe Fédérale Paris-Capitale (1943/44)
  • Association Sportive Clermontoise (1944/45)
  • Red Star Olympique Audonies (1945/46)
  • Club Olympique Roubaix-Tourcoing (1946/47)
  • Racing Club Paris (1947 – early 1950)
  • Associazione Calcio Venezia 1907 (early 1950–1951)
  • Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (1951/52 [first round])
  • FC Annecy (1952–1956, as a player-coach in the amateur field)

In the national team

Lucien Leduc played four games in the senior national team in April and May 1946 , where he also scored a goal in a 3-1 win over Austria . He also wore the blue jersey in the 2-1 win over England .

Coaching career

After Leduc, in his new role as trainer, initially worked for two clubs where he had already played himself (AC Venice and FC Annecy), his ascent to one of the most successful French clubs began with his commitment by AS Monaco for the 1958/59 season Coach of the 1960s and 1970s. In none of his eight career stations until 1984 were the club teams he supervised in the final season table in a double-digit table position; rather, he won numerous titles with them, especially in France. However , he was never elected French football coach of the year , which was only introduced in 1971 .

He led the team from the Principality of Monaco to their first cup victory after 24 months and to their first championship title a year later. At the end of the 1962/63 season, the ASM won both competitions again and was only the sixth club in French football history to have their only doublé to date (2009) . Leduc had formed a team around the players Raymond Kaelbel , Henri Biancheri , Michel Hidalgo and Albertus Carlier and strengthened it through purchases like Yvon Douis and Lucien Cossou , which rose to the absolute top of Division 1. He introduced regular high-altitude training and persuaded those responsible for the club to set up an education and training center in nearby Èze  - with both initiatives he was way ahead of his time. At the same time, he took great care of each of his players, even outside of the sports field; He visited the injured at their sickbed several times a day and was also not too fond of changing their association, as Hidalgo remembers, who names Lucien Leduc, alongside Elek Schwartz and Albert Batteux, as the one who shaped him the most as a player and later national coach Has. Leduc, the “magician”, was interested in many things beyond football, obsessed with detail, at the same time warm-hearted, a philanthropist and good psychologist who respected his players and was convinced of the idea that only maintaining the joy of playing and an offensive team orientation enables lasting success .

After five years at AS Monaco, the coach moved abroad in 1963, first to Servette Geneva , with whom he became Swiss runner-up in 1966 and twice (1965 and 1966) reached the cup final, although without being able to win this title. He then worked for three years as the Algerian national coach  - as the first European ever and one of the sports teachers there with the longest tenure into the 21st century. During this time Leduc led the "Fennecs" without losing points through the qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations 1968 - this was Algeria's first participation - in which they failed, however, in the first round. In 1969 he returned to Division 1, first coaching SCO Angers and from December 1970 Olympique Marseille . There he succeeded Mario Zatelli , whom the autocratic club president Marcel Leclerc had "praised" away to the post of sports director in the middle of a successful season; at the end of Leduc's first half-season there, OM was French champion and reached the semi-finals in the cup. In the 1971/72 season, Marseille even won the championship and cup doubles - Leduc, however, was dismissed by Leclerc two months before the end of the season and ... was replaced by his predecessor Zatelli.

It followed two years at Stade Reims before the coach retired to his adopted Savoyard home. At the beginning of 1976 he helped out as a short-term representative at Standard Liège and then at Wydad AC Casablanca ; his second coaching activity in North Africa ended after a few months when he won the Moroccan championship title . When he received the call of AS Monaco, which had just been relegated to the second division , in the summer of the same year , he interrupted his self-chosen retirement. At the end of the season he returned to the top division with the Monegasque as the first in Group A and won the French championship there just twelve months later as a promoted team, and also reached the semi-finals. After another year, which ended the ASM in league rankings, Lucien Leduc left Monaco to finally retire at Lac d'Annecy . But in the 1983/84 season he was in the coaching bench again: this time Paris Saint-Germain had an urgent need for a successful coach , and he promptly led the club to fourth place in Division 1.

Lucien Leduc, to whom they erected a memorial in Monaco, died in 2004 at the age of 85 in Annecy.

Coaching stations

  • AC Venice (1956/57)
  • FC Annecy (1957/58, amateur)
  • Association Sportive de Monaco (1958–1963)
  • Servette FC Genève (1963-1966)
  • Algerian national team (1966–1969)
  • Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers (1969/70)
  • Olympique Marseille (December 1970 – March 1972)
  • Stade Reims (September 1972–1974)
  • Standard Liege (1976)
  • Wydad AC Casablanca (1976)
  • AS Monaco (1976–1979, including 1976/77 in D2)
  • Paris Saint-Germain FC (1983/84)

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion: 1947
  • French Cup Winner: 1949 (and finalist 1942, 1946)
  • 4 international matches (1 goal) for France

As a trainer

  • French champion: 1961, 1963, 1971, 1978 (except for 1971 - in that year near Marseille - with Monaco), also proportionally in 1972 with Marseille
  • French cup winner: 1960, 1963 (and partly 1972)
  • Swiss runner-up (1966) and cup finalist (1965, 1966)
  • Moroccan champion: 1976
  • 14 games in the European Cup, 6 of them with Monaco, 4 with Marseille, 4 with Paris

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 191
  2. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 131
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-9519605-3-0 , p. 309; Chaumier, p. 191
  4. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 85
  5. ↑ Michel Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2007 ISBN 978-2-84724-146-4 , pp. 49/50
  6. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, pp. 133ff .; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 146
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 145 and 157
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 146
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , pp. 271, 282 and 301

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personal data
SURNAME Leduc, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Portel
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2004
Place of death Annecy