Marcel Lanfranchi

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Marcel Lanfranchi (born January 11, 1921 in Tunis , † September 10, 2013 in Cazères , Haute-Garonne department ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

Lanfranchi, whose ancestors came from the island of Corsica , grew up in French-occupied Tunisia and began playing football there. The right winger made the leap into the then unofficial Tunisian national team as an amateur footballer . As a soldier he had to fight in World War II and stayed in metropolitan France after he was released from his military duties in 1942. There he played for small clubs from Viviez and Cransac before moving to US Cazères in 1946 . In 1948 the player was a member of the French Olympic team alongside numerous professionals , even if he did not appear in the jersey of the French during the course of the tournament. In the same year he signed his first contract in paid football with the nearby first division club FC Toulouse at the age of 27. His brother Jean Lanfranchi , who had already been his teammate in Cazères, followed him there.

At Toulouse Lanfranchi became a regular player at a time when substitutions and substitutions were not yet possible. He was a successful goalscorer and had ten hits in his first season 17 goals in the 1949/50 season, which he took seventh on the list of goalscorers. Thanks to his success, the offensive player was offered a call to the French national team , but it failed due to a knee injury. In 1950 he lost his regular place and ran from then on only occasionally for a team that was relegated to the second division in 1951. In 1952, the promotion was missed and Lanfranchi also moved to league rivals FC Perpignan . After a year in Perpignan, he ended his professional career at the age of 30 after 73 first division games with 27 goals and 29 second division games with 13 goals.

Coaching career

Following his active career, the father of two began a career as a coach. As such, he was coach from 1961 to 1963 at an amateur club from Tarascon . This was followed by positions in Bagnères-de-Luchon , in Cazères, where he had already played, and in Porto-Vecchio in Corsica . He settled in Corsica in old age, but returned to Cazères for the last part of his life; He died in the local retirement home in 2013 at the age of 92.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cazères. Football: Marcel Lanfranchi, le prince des Capucins nous a quittés , ladepeche.fr
  2. ↑ Quelques anciennes gloires de l'US CAZERES (PROS et INTERNATIONALAUX) , lesainesdeluscazeres.fr
  3. ↑ TFC: Homage to Marcel Lanfranchi , tfc.info
  4. ↑ Football: Marcel Lanfranchi , footballdatabase.eu
  5. ↑ Marcel Lanfranchi complete profile ( Memento from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
personal data
SURNAME Lanfranchi, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2013
Place of death Cazères , France