Marilou Duringer

Marilou Duringer (born September 1, 1948 ), after her marriage Marilou Duringer-Eckert , is a former French soccer player and still an active club and association official. The journalist and author Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau describes her as “THE undisputed personality and fighter for French women's football”.

Career

When women's football in France experienced  a renaissance in the mid-1960s - starting from the north , Champagne and Alsace - Marilou Duringer was one of the pioneers of this sport, which was tolerated by the French association FFF , but not yet recognized, let alone supported. As a child, she watched men's games with her father and brothers on Sundays. As a 16-year-old, she regularly played in a women's team that was officially accepted by the local FC Schwindratzheim , making her one of the first French women with an official player's license. It was only around five years later, in March 1970, that the FFF formally decided to legalize women's football. By then Duringer and her Schwindratzheimerinnen had already won several championships of the regional Ligue d'Alsace ; a national championship competition was not introduced until the 1974/75 season, and a uniform French women's league only in 1992.

In 1973 the women of FC Schwindratzheim joined FC Vendenheim , and there too, Marilou Duringer continued to play until she was 40, despite suffering a triple ankle fracture at the age of 35. In the first half of the 1970 invited coach Pierre Geoffroy to a course of the French National Frauenschaft according Reims a; Her application for leave was rejected by her employer, an insurance company, but with the words "This is your job and not a game". At the same time, she grew into her new role at FC Vendenheim as a voluntary club official, in which she is still active in the early 2010s.

In 1985 she was the first woman to be elected to the National Council of Amateur Football and to the Federal Council of the FFF regional association. It didn't take long before she was also appointed head of delegation (chef de délégation) for the women's national team. From then on, she accompanied the footballers to international friendship tournaments and, after France qualified for the European and 2003 World Cup finals for the first time , also to the continental and world tournaments. She still held this office at the 2011 World Cup in Germany , and she has held it alongside four ( Francis Coché , Aimé Mignot , Élisabeth Loisel , Bruno Bini ) of the six French national coaches so far; as the FFF Federal Councilor, she oversaw the work of six association presidents. After the association's bodies were restructured in the course of 2011, she was also elected to the High Authority for Football; Duringer did not run for re-election in December 2012.

Her main task and her central concern for the past four decades, however, is still the struggle for recognition and equal treatment of women's football. Even today, measured by their share of the total number of FFF members (around 3% in 2011), women are disproportionately represented in the key association bodies, but they are still clearly in the minority - one in the 12-person executive committee and two in 20 Members of the High Authority. Marilou Duringer stated in 2003 that until well into the 1990s there was an “absolute lack of interest in women's football topics” - “and even today we have to persuade us all the time. We don't get the same attention as men. […] The fight goes on".

In September 2012, the FFF honored the “pioneer of French women's football” for a quarter of a century's commitment as head of delegation.

literature

• Collectif (Ed .: Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association): 100 ans de football en Alsace. Édito, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-911219-13-9 , Volume 5, pp. 156-158
• Claire Gaillard: La grande histoire des Bleues. In the coulisses de l'équipe de France féminine. Hachette, Paris 2019, ISBN 978-2-0170-4705-6 , p. 23
• Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 (with prefaces by Claude Simonet and Aimé Jacquet )
• Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Web links

• Duringers short biography on the website of the FFF

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. , 2003, p. 220
2. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, pp. 217f.
3. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, pp. 204f .; Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. , 2003, p. 220
4. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, p. 195
5. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. , 2003, p. 222
6. ↑ see Duringers biography on the FFF website (under web links )
7. ↑ see the article “The gendarmes from Soufflenheim defend their title”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 19, 2012 on the side of the Ligue d'Alsace  
8. ↑ See the election results for both bodies  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 18, 2011 at Foot Hebdo; Duringer was re-elected as the second woman in the High Authority.  
9. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. , 2003, p. 224
10. ↑ see the message and a retrospective comment duringers (video) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from September 20, 2012 on the association's website