Marcel Rouvière
Marcel Rouvière (born October 4, 1921 in Alès , † August 13, 1976 in Nîmes ) was a French football player and coach .
Player career
The striker was in the squad of Olympique Alès from 1944 and took part with the team in the unofficial Division 1 , the first division. In 20 games he scored 17 goals, scoring half the goals of his entire team. When regular play was resumed for the 1945/46 season, Alès only appeared in the second highest division. The 180 centimeter tall player, who was considered physically strong, was able to build on his previous successes, but narrowly missed the rise despite 19 successes. After the previously two-pronged second division was combined into a group in 1946, the striker was called up in all 42 games during the 1946/47 season. With 40 goals, he made a significant contribution to the promotion to the top class, but missed the title of top scorer due to the 45 goals by Josef Humpál .
His first official season in the first division brought a clear decrease in his hit rate with it, as he could not book more than nine goals; at the same time Rouvière had to accept direct relegation in 1948. However, he did not stay with Alès, but followed his coach Pierre Pibarot to the also second-rate local rival Olympique Nîmes . There he regained his goal danger and hit the target first 21, then 23 times; with his 23 hits in the 1949/50 season, he achieved winning the second division championship and the associated promotion.
Back in the top French division, he made it to ninth place on the top scorer list with 17 goals; In addition, he was fifth in the table with Nîmes and was only one point short of the champions OGC Nice . The season 1951/52 ended the club in sixth and thus again with a high ranking, while Rouvière expanded his performance to 25 hits; so he was in second place on the list of the best shooters, even if six hits were missing on the winner Gunnar Andersson .
From 1952 onwards, he experienced a slump, no longer held such a permanent position in the team and only scored seven times in both 1952/53 and 1953/54. After that he was completely ousted and ran up one more time in the 1954/55 season, where he also scored his last goal. Then Rouvière ended after 130 official first division games with 66 goals, 20 unofficial first division games with 17 goals and 130 second division games with 103 goals his active career.
Coaching career
After the end of his career, Rouvière took up the profession of sports teacher and continued to work for Olympique Nîmes, where he was employed as a talent scout and youth coach; national players Jacques Novi and Michel Mézy emerged from his football school . With the youth team he won the Coupe Gambardella in 1961, 1966 and 1969 , which is the highest national competition for junior teams.
In addition, the former player coached the professional team from 1964 to 1967, with whom he was relegated in 1967; In 1969 he took over responsibility for a few months again, where he was able to keep the team in the first division. When he was in the stadium on August 13, 1976 during a game between Nîmes and SCO Angers , he suffered a heart attack and died as a result. In September of the same year he was posthumously awarded the gold medal for sports youth and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques ; a stadium in Nîmes was named after the former professional.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Rouvière complete profile ( memento of August 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu
- ↑ Marcel Rouvière , pari-et-gagne.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rouvière, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alès , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1976 |
| Place of death | Nîmes , France |