Marcel Moreau (soccer player)

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Marcel Moreau (born December 18, 1936 in Reims ) is a former French football player .

Club career

Marcel Moreau, who came from the youth of Stade Reims , played his first game in the top division of his club in August 1960 : in the 4-0 home win over US Valenciennes , coach Albert Batteux put him on as the left runner . In this 1960/61 season, the 1.71 m tall player quickly became a regular at the reigning national champion , who ended the season in third place. Moreau was in a team with numerous technically strong and goal-scoring players such as Kopa , Glovacki , Fontaine , Vincent , Piantoni , Sauvage and Akesbi the type of defensive "worker bee"; In particular , he kept his back free for his outrunner colleague Lucien Muller during his frequent advances. In that year he also scored one of his not exactly numerous competitive goals, and even on an international level: he scored the second Reims goal in the 5-0 win over return host Jeunesse Esch in the European Cup .

The following year, Marcel Moreau won his first and only title when Reims became French division 1 champion in a “heart-stopping final” - tied with Racing Paris and only because of the slightly better goal quotient (1.38 versus 1.37; after that at the time The goal difference rule that was not used would have taken the capital city first), which the red-whites from Champagne only achieved with a 5-1 win against Racing Strasbourg on the last match day. Also in the 1962/63 season, Moreau was quite successful with Reims: Stade was runner-up and reached the semi-finals in the national cup , in which only the subsequent doublé winner AS Monaco was able to stop his team 3-2 in a "high-class match". In addition, Moreau was also at Reims' last major European appearance to date (5-0 over FK Austria Wien ).

1963/64 followed a black year: Reims occupied at the end of a relegation, and the external rotor was one of the victims frequent changes in the line-up, which the institution responsible instead of Batteux coach Camille Cottin and "asked the page" him in winter Jean Prouff considering practiced the increasingly precarious situation, so that he only came to 19 appearances in 34 point games. After all, Moreau remained loyal to his club in the second division , brought it back to the regular player under the new coach Robert Jonquet , the "Reims monument", but lost this place in 1965/66 when Stade Reims managed to rise again as second division champions. He was then sold to FC Limoges , with whom he completed the 1966/67 season only on a midfield position in Division 2 .
It has not yet been possible to determine where Marcel Moreau played afterwards and what became of him after the end of his career.

Stations

  • Stade de Reims (already as a teenager; in the league eleven 1960 to 1966, of which 1964 to 1966 in D2)
  • Limoges Football Club (1966/67, in D2)

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1962 (and runner-up in 1963)
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but semi-finalist 1963)
  • 101 games and 2 goals in Division 1 for Reims
  • 59 games and 2 goals in Division 2 , 32/1 for Reims and 27/1 for Limoges
  • 6 games and 1 goal in the European championship cup

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5 .
  • L'Équipe, Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X .
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 285
  2. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007] ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 82
  3. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 289; a photo of the master squad can be found at Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy on p. 140
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 379
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 308
  6. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 292-298.
  7. ↑ after 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.
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 309
personal data
SURNAME Moreau, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims