Lucien Perpère

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Lucien Perpère (born May 31, 1912 in Mascara , French North Africa , † August 28, 1996 in Reims ) was a French football player and coach . He was considered "the first great goalscorer in the history of Stade Reims ", for whom and whose predecessor club he played for 15 years. He has also written several books on the education and training of young footballers.

Player career

Lucien Perpère came with his parents at a young age from what was then French Algeria to the French mainland in Reims . There he played soccer at the Société Sportive du Parc Pommery (SSPP), from which Stade Reims emerged in 1931 . For Stade's first team he acted as a striker and scorer during their rise from amateur ( Division d'Honneur ) to professional football (from 1935 second , from 1939 first division ). Even then, except for a short time in the second half of the 1930s, he remained an amateur and worked as a journalist for L'Éclaireur de l'Est (the forerunner of today's regional daily L'Union ).

His first appearances in the league eleven of the SSSP, he recorded as a 16-year-old in the 1928/29 season, when he was promoted to the Division d'Honneur. Starting in 1931 in the then still black and orange colored dress of Stade Reims, he won his first title as French amateur champion in 1935. In the meantime even team captain , he accepted the trophy from the president of the association Jules Rimet after the final . At the same time, Reims was also accepted - there was no automatic promotion and relegation between the professional and amateur leagues at the time - in Division 2 . In the first second division season (1935/36) , which Reims completed on a place in the middle of the table, he played 19 of the 33 point games played and scored eight goals. In the following season Stade Reims finished only the penultimate place; Lucien Perpère brought it this time in 25 appearances on nine goals. In 1939 Reims' second (amateur) eleven played again for the national championship, and in the final, won 1-0 against Stade Béthune , three non-professionals from the first team were there. So Perpère, who was characterized as “solid and assertive”, at the same time “daredevil like ball distributor”, was once again the French amateur champion. He also drew attention to himself in the national cup when he scored the goal of the day in the second replay of the round of 16 against the higher-class AS Saint-Étienne on presentation of Albert Batteux .

In the following years, after the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of France , Perpère also came regularly to appearances in the top division , in the Stade Reims, although it had not qualified for it athletically. However, these so-called "war championships" (1939 to 1945) do not count as official competitions. The 1941/42 season was particularly successful : Reims ended the season first in the table in the northern group (i.e. the occupied part of the country) - a playoff against the southern winners FC Sète was not planned - and reached the final of the occupied zone against Red Star in the cup competition Olympique . Unlike his counterpart André Simonyi , the striker failed to score a goal and the final was lost 1-0.

In the summer of 1943 , on the political decision of the Vichy regime, all club teams in the first division were replaced by so-called federal elections. In the Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne , Perpère was not used, also due to a broken arm at the end of the preseason, which is why he delegated more than 100 goals for Stade Reims as player-coach to the Équipe Fédérale Bordeaux-Guyenne after around 300 matches (including 267 point games) has been. There he set himself up only in three games, and at the end of the year he left Bordeaux again to work in the same position for the Burgundian amateur club FC Gueugnon , but increasingly only as a coach.

1938 Perpère had been used in the French amateur national team , which won against a selection team of the English Isthmian League 2-1. He was also a record player in the regional selection of Northeast France during his playing days.

Club stations

  • Société Sportive du Parc Pommery (1928–1931)
  • Stade de Reims (1931-1943)
  • Équipe Fédérale Bordeaux-Guyenne (August to December 1943)
  • FC Gueugnon (January 1944–1947)

Activity as trainer and author

Soon after the end of the war, Lucien Perpère won his third French amateur championship (1947), this time as coach of FC Gueugnon, where he also created one of the first youth training centers in France. As a result, alongside his main job as a journalist, he coached FC Roanne - with whom he again played for the amateur title in 1949, but this time unsuccessfully -, then FC Mulhouse and, for a short time, even the first division team of FC Nancy . During this time he also began to write books about the football training of children and young people as well as about his former club from Reims, which rose to international importance in the 1950s.

Palmarès

  • French amateur champion: 1935, 1939 (as a player), 1947 (as a coach)

literature

About Perpère

  • Marc Barreaud / Alain Colzy: Les géants du Stade de Reims. Euromedia, Douzy 2012, ISBN 979-10-90217-07-2
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992, ISBN 2-9506272-2-6

From Perpère

  • Football, ma passion! Les éditions Paris-Vendôme, 1951
  • Prends un ballon petit… Initiation au foot-ball. Ed. Matot braine
  • Si le Stade m'était conté.
  • Comment on devient footballeur. Famot, Genève 1979
  • (together with Victor Sinet and Louis Tanguy): Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Football, sa passion. Ed. Matot-Braine, 1982

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Fichier des décès at MatchID
  2. ↑ see the article from 2012 from L'Union (under web links )
  3. ↑ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 12; according to this notification (with photo) on skyrock.com only from 1929.
  4. ↑ According to Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 246, Perpère has also been part of the Reims regular formation in all seasons in the amateur league.
  5. ↑ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 34, there also a photo of the handover of the trophy
  6. ↑ Football (ed.): Almanach du football éd. 1935/36. , Paris 1936, p. 74
  7. ↑ Football (ed.): Almanach du football éd. 1936/37. , Paris 1937, p. 76
  8. ↑ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 49ff.
  9. ↑ a b c Barreaud / Colzy, p. 31
  10. ↑ Hubert / Pernet, p. 11
  11. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 33; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 48f.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 358
  13. ↑ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy, p. 62
  14. ↑ according to the table of the 20 players with the most league appearances on the website of the "Former Stade Reims", anciensdusdr.free.fr
  15. ↑ Hubert / Pernet, p. 12; Result of the game from Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1 , p. 72
  16. ↑ see the message on gueugnon.chez-alice.fr
  17. ↑ Hubert / Pernet, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Perpère, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French football player, coach and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mascara , French North Africa
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1996
Place of death Reims