Marcel Artelesa

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Marcel Artelesa (born July 2, 1938 in Pont-Sainte-Marie , Département Aube , † September 23, 2016 in Mergey ) was a French football player .

Club career

After leaving school, Marcel Artelesa worked like his father as a bricklayer , which later earned him the nickname le Maçon , and played football on the side. At the age of 18, the neighboring second division AS Troyes-Savinienne brought the defender into his league team, where he quickly established himself. After three years Troyes was promoted to the first division ; Artelesa was used in 34 of the 38 point games and scored one goal, but at the end of the 1960/61 season the ASTS, which had lost 28 of their games and won only five, ended up being far behind in the last place in the table.

As a result, AS Monaco secured the services of the “bright, solid and energetic, at the same time elegant central defender”. The Monegasques coach had Lucien Leduc to players like Michel Hidalgo , Lucien Cossou , "Théo" Szkudlapski and Albertus Carlier built a strong team to the 1961 Yvon Douis yet another veteran met - and in which it of its role as defender in The successor of Raymond Kaelbel entrusted the relatively inexperienced Marcel Artelesa. This justified Leduc's trust in the following five years, was only missing in a handful of league games, played his first two European Cup games against Glasgow Rangers right from the start and at the end of the 1962/63 season led the ASM to their greatest success to date, the Doublé , So the championship title and winning the national cup . Monaco needed two games to win the cup, however, because in the first final against Olympique Lyon the coach - thanks to his "bricklayer" also successfully - "touched the concrete", and after 120 minutes the spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Colombes whistled both teams for the first goalless final in competition history. In the repeat match in front of not even 25,000 spectators, Monaco's defense held its own box again, but was a little more active on the offensive and twice successful. Four months later Artelesa also became a national player, and the following season Monaco ended as runners-up; he himself was also awarded the Étoile d'Or 1963/64 by France Football , making it France's Footballer of the Year . In the European Champion's Cup, which was held at the same time , his team prevailed confidently against AEK Athens in the preliminary round , but then failed to Inter Milan .

Two seasons followed in which the AS only occupied midfield in Division 1 . Marcel Artelesa was then released after 172 points games with five goals in 1966 to Olympique Marseille . There he provided on the side of Jean Djorkaeff and Jacques Novi in 75 league appearances in two years for a stable defense as the basis for two front placements in the final table; Marseille had a real championship chance against AS Saint-Étienne, however, neither in 1967 nor in 1968. 1968/69 was a "black year" when he - now under contract with OGC Nice - for the first time suffered from a protracted injury, to only 17 D1 Missions came and had to switch to Racing FC Paris-Neuilly after Nice's relegation. With this second division, the central defender surprisingly reached the cup quarter-finals in 1970 , in which his team forced the higher-class US Valenciennes-Anzin into a third game: in Artelesa's old home Troyes , however, Neuilly missed the semi-final with 1: 2. Only a few weeks later he returned to this stadium because he had joined his first professional club, now renamed Troyes Aube Football , for which he continued to play regularly and which he even returned to the first division in 1973.

The 35-year-old ended his playing career immediately afterwards. From then on, he worked in the municipal administration of Romilly-sur-Seine and coached the USM Romilly amateur team for a long time .

Stations

  • Association Sportive Troyes-Savinienne (1957–1961, including 1957–1960 in D2)
  • Association Sportive de Monaco (1961–1966)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1966–1968)
  • Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice (1968/69)
  • Racing FC Paris-Neuilly (from 1970: Racing Paris-Joinville) (1969/70, in D2)
  • Troyes Aube Football (1970–1973, in D2)

In the national team

Marcel Artelesa made his debut in September 1963 in a qualifier for the European Championship against Bulgaria in the national team of France . He then played 19 of the following 20 internationals. In 1966 he was in the French World Cup squad and played in all three preliminary round games of the World Cup . France's early exit in England also heralded the end of his international career. The friendly 3-0 win in Luxembourg in November 1966 was his 21st and last international match; in this he was, as already eight times previously since October 1965, the captaincy of the Bleus .

Artelesa has particularly fond memories of the Luxembourgers, as the French remained victorious in their two previous encounters with their neighbors (2-0 in October 1964 and 4-1 in November 1965). And in the 1964 game, he also scored his only goal in the blue dress, when he ran the ball from his own half to the opponent's penalty area and completed it from there. However, he only played once against other national teams from German-speaking countries - that was in November 1963 in a 2-2 draw against the Swiss “Nati” .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1963
  • French cup winner: 1963
  • 21 international matches, 1 goal; World Cup participant in 1966
  • 6 games in the European Cup
  • 298 first division appearances (6 hits) and 192 second division appearances
  • Awarded the Étoile d'Or as France's footballer of the year: 1963/64
  • Participation in the 1960 Olympic Games

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: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Décès de Marcel Artelesa, ancien international
  2. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 20
  3. ↑ Appearances and hit numbers, also at Artelesa's later clubs, according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  4. ^ Louis Naville: Di Nallo - Gondet - Loubet - Revelli. Carré d'as du football. Solar, Paris 1970, p. 165 168
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 379
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 275 and 282
  7. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 419
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 386
  9. ↑ Chaumier, p. 21
  10. ↑ see the game scheme on the website of the French federation
  11. ↑ This chapter is based on L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 323-326, unless otherwise stated.
  12. ↑ see Artelesa's seasonal data at footballdatabase.eu
personal data
SURNAME Artelesa, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-Sainte-Marie , Aube department
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2016
Place of death Mergey