Marie-Bernadette Thomas

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Marie-Bernadette Thomas (born December 13, 1955 ) is a French soccer player . She won three championship titles in France during her career and was one of the first generation of French internationals .

Club career

Marie-Bernadette Thomas was one of the early active players in women's football and soon after its legalization by the French professional association FFF (1970), she joined the players of Stade Reims . Since the red and whites from Champagne held an absolutely dominant position in France at this time - from 1969 to September 1975 Stade's women did not lose a single game against French opponents - she also became a national player early on (see below) , especially the first National coach Pierre Geoffroy was also the coach of this club woman. As long as the FFF had not yet introduced a nationwide championship operation, the Reimserinnen only played for points on a regional level in north-east France and otherwise played countless guest appearances, especially abroad.

Marie-Bernadette Thomas was a robust, assertive athlete who Geoffroy could use in both attack and defense . In the 1974/75 season , a French championship title was played for the first time, and Thomas' team reached the final without having given up a point in the eight previous finals. In the final, Reims beat Arago Sport Orléans 5-0, and Thomas, who was in the offensive line, scored one of the goals in the first half. She was also French women's champion in 1976 and 1977 ; against FC Rouen and SC Caluire Saint-Clair , she remained without a goal of her own. A year later , their team had to admit defeat for the first time in a championship final, when AS Étrœungt won 1-0 and 1: 1 - in the meantime, the final was played in a home and away leg; the only goal from Reims was scored by Marie-Bernadette Thomas. In 1979 this pairing came up again in the final, and in Stade's 2-1 win in the first leg, Thomas met for the third time in a final - but against Marie-Louise Butzig , his own goalkeeper . So the Reimserinnen remained after the subsequent 2-0 defeat again only the ungrateful second place.

The sources used do not explicitly mention whether Thomas took a break from playing after 1979 or ended her career in her twenties. At least in the following three years she was no longer in the respective Reims finals, which won two other French championships.

Stations

  • Stade Reims (1970 or 1971 - at least 1979)

In the national team

At a time when the French women's national team rarely played more than three internationals a year, Marie-Bernadette Thomas has made 14 senior internationals, at least according to the official statistics of the French Football Association. She did not score a goal in this circle. She made her debut as a 15-year-old in November 1971 at the first international match recognized by the FFF, in which the French won 2-2 against the Italians, who were very powerful at the time . Thomas was in an eleven in which only three players were not among their Reims club-mates: goalkeeper Marie-Louise Butzig, at the time still playing for a "village club" from Vrigne-aux-Bois , Jocelyne Ratignier from Racing Flacé-lès- Mâcon and Marie-Christine Tschopp from SC Caluire Saint-Clair. Even Francis Coché , Pierre Geoffroy's successor as national coach, it took account initially continue. Her international career ended with a game against Wales in June 1978. There were also three missions against Switzerland (1973, 1974 and 1977).

In fact, Marie-Bernadette Thomas has played at least one more official game; because she was already on April 17, 1971 in Hazebrouck in the 4-0 victory over the Dutch women on the pitch. The world football association FIFA recently recognized this encounter as the very first official women's international match worldwide, but not so far the French FFF. With this victory, the French had qualified for the second women's world championship, which the Fédération Internationale et Européenne de Football Féminin (FIEFF) had organized in late summer 1971 in Mexico and in which France with a 3-2 in the placement game against England in the fifth Rank completed. Marie-Bernadette Thomas was also part of the 17-strong squad for whom the FFF organized a training camp, put together the final squad and accompanied them to Mexico, but whose games - like FIFA - they did not recognize as official.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1975, 1976, 1977 (and runner-up 1978, 1979)
  • over 14 international matches, no goal for France

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

  • Datasheet on the website of the French Football Association
  • Datasheet at footofeminin.fr

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 57
  2. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , p. 157
  3. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 58
  4. ↑ see the game data sheet at fff.fr
  5. ↑ see the article "Women from the very beginning" on fifa.com
  6. ↑ However, this position seems to be slowly "softening". In a more recent book published by the FFF itself ( 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o. O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , p. 121) it says literally: “Le 17 avril 1971, l'Équipe de France féminine disputera son premier match officiel en recevant et dominant les Pays-Bas ” ; on the fff.fr website, however, this game is still missing in March 2014.
  7. ↑ see the World Cup tournament at rsssf.com
  8. ↑ Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , pp. 234/235
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Marie-Bernadette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1955