Maurice Cottenet

Maurice Cottenet (born February 11, 1895 in Le Raincy , † April 11, 1972 ) was a French football player and coach .

As a player

Club career

The tall goalkeeper , known as "The Giant with the Hands of Clay", began playing football at Jeanne-d'Arc Sport , a club in his native city from the Catholic sports movement , which was organized in the Fédération Gymnastique et Sportive des Patronages Français (FGSPF). He was good at catching high balls, but weak in flat shots and running out. He then played for Raincy Sports , where he became a national player in 1920, and from 1920 at Olympique Paris , which in 1918 (still under the name Olympique de Pantin ) had become the country's first ever cup winner .

This cup, the Coupe de France , was the first nationwide competition in the "Hexagone" , the win of which, in contrast to the French championships before the 1932/33 season, is still an official title, although it was held before the FFF was founded ( 1919) was introduced. With Raincy Sports , Maurice Cottenet reached the quarter-finals of this competition in 1918 (1: 4 against CASG Paris ), but suffered a 1:18 against CA Paris a year later in the sixteenth-finals . In 1921 he was with Olympique champion of the Paris League and also reached the cup final. But Red Star won this final 2-1, although Cottenet almost despaired the opposing attackers - because his opponent Pierre Chayriguès (see also below ) also delivered a legendary performance, and Olympiques Jules Dewaquez missed a penalty in the final phase . In 1922 (0: 3 against Stade Rennais UC ), 1923 (0: 1 against Red Star) and 1925 (1: 2 after extra time against FC Rouen ), the goalkeeper could not prevent his red-whites from failing in the semi-finals, while bitter local rivals Red Star won the cup again in 1922 and 1923. In the quarter-finals of 1925 (1-0 against Olympique Marseille ) , Cottenet still offered a performance in which he “surpassed himself”.

In 1926 Olympique merged with Red Star - although many convinced Olympians at the time saw this as more of a " hostile takeover " - and Cottenet moved to AS Cannes . In the following months, the goalkeeper completed nine A-internationals, but the club from the Côte d'Azur could not be compared with Olympique in terms of performance: in 1927 he failed in the last sixteen of the Coupe de France on the traditional, but only with a modest one Palmarès equipped Parisian US Suisse , whose striker defeated Cottenet five times.

After his time at Cannes, Maurice Cottenet moved to French North Africa ( Algérie française ) , where he still played for the clubs RU Algiers and AS Bône . It is not known whether he was still playing for Algiers in 1932 when the team won the North African Cup (Coupe d'Afrique du Nord) ; he would then have been 37 years old.

Stations

• Jeanne-d'Arc Sport (as a teenager)
• Raincy Sports (until 1920)
• Olympique de Paris (1920–1926)
• Association Sportive de Cannes (from 1926)
• Racing Universitaire Algérois
• Association Sportive de Bône

In the national team

Between January 1920 and June 1927 Maurice Cottenet played 18 international matches for the Équipe tricolore ; in two of them he even led the team onto the field as captain . In a national team that was at best second class internationally in the 1920s, he conceded a total of 69 goals; On his debut France lost 4-9 in Italy , and after his last appearance in Hungary (final score 1:13) he declared his resignation self-deprecating: "You should recognize the point in time when you can still resign in beauty." On the other hand guarded Cottenet the gate even with one of the biggest successes of the first two French international game for decades, the 2: 1 win over football instructor England in 1921. From 1923 to 1925 he competed with Pierre Chayrigues who before the world war II for the first real choice goalkeeper of the Bleus had become and which he replaced after the end of the war and again from 1925, before he himself vacated his place for Alex Thépot .

As a trainer

After his playing days, Maurice Cottenet coached the Norman club SM Caen, among others . For the World Cup finals in 1938 , the French federation entrusted him with the task to be préparateur physique around the physical preparation - a solid coach, there was at that time not yet - the team squad to care.

Palmarès

• French Cup : 1921 finalist
• 18 international matches, 2 of which were with Raincy, 7 with Olympique Paris, 9 with AS Cannes

literature

• Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
• Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-9519605-3-0
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4
• François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-9512562-0-5
• Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 20032 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 80
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France, pp. 334/335
3. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 44
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France, pp. 337-341.
5. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 80
6. ↑ “Je crois que je ferais bien de prendre ma retraite. Il faut savoir partir en beauté. ”  - in slightly different formulations in Rethacker / Thibert, p. 83, and Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 110
7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: La belle histoire, pp. 36 and 294–299

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the side of the association