Numa Andoire

Numa André Andoire (born March 19, 1908 in Coursegoules , Alpes-Maritimes department , † January 2, 1994 ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

The 175 centimeter tall defender Andoire played for the youth team of FC Antibes from 1921 . In 1927 he moved to the neighboring OGC Nice and moved up there in the first team. He also worked for the military, also played in this football and was in the 1929 final of the French military championship. With the OGC Nice in 1932 he qualified for Division 1 , which was created that year as the nationwide top division and professional league . However, the man known as humorous returned at the same time to Antibes, which had also qualified for the new first division, and received an undisputed place in the first eleven. In the only league in its opening year in two groups, he and the team were group winners, but they were not allowed to play the final of the championship due to allegations of manipulation against the club.

In the same year he turned his back on the club and moved to Red Star Paris , which at that time co-founded Division 2 as the second highest division , which was launched a year after the first division . In 1934 Andoire was the first champion of the second class with the team from the capital, which at the same time entitled to move into the top division. He spent two seasons in the elite class of French football before moving to second division FC Nancy in 1936 . Despite moving to a lower league, he did not get a permanent place with the Lorraine and returned to the club a year later. With AS Cannes it was again a first division team that signed him and where he played long-term from then on. Although he had to witness the cessation of regular gaming due to the Second World War in 1939, unlike many colleagues, he was not personally affected by the events of the war and was able to continue his career. He took part with Cannes until 1942 in the unofficial championship events.

He returned to professional business in 1945 when he returned to FC Antibes, which was now only second class, and took on the role of player- coach. After a season as such, he gave up the office of coach in 1946 and ended his career as a player at the age of 38.

Coaching career

Immediately after his active career, in the last year of which he already gained coaching experience, he went to the French colony of Algeria in 1946 and coached an amateur club from the city of Bône . In 1950 he returned to his mother country, where he was accepted into the staff of his former employer OGC Nice. In December 1950 he was appointed head coach and was able to celebrate winning the national championship at the end of the 1950/51 season. During this time he also owned a small hotel in the mountains behind Nice. In 1952 he not only defended the title with the team, but also won the national cup with a 5-3 final win over Girondins Bordeaux . At the European level, this was supplemented by the move into the final of the Coupe Latine , even if it was lost 1-0 to FC Barcelona .

Following this series of successes, he gave up his post at Nice and went back to Algeria, where he coached a team from Oran from 1952 to 1955 . However, the contact with the OGC continued and he received at the beginning of the 1962/63 season for the second time the place on the bench at the club from Nice. At his successful times in the early 1950s he could not build on and in 1964 had to accept relegation as bottom of the table. This also marked the end of the coaching career of the then 56-year-old. As he worked for clubs from Nice, Cannes and Antibes in both his playing and coaching days, he is considered a formative personality of football in the region on the Côte d'Azur that includes these cities .

National team

Andoire had not yet played a single international match when he was appointed to the squad for the French national team for the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay at the age of 22 . However, he was not called up once during the tournament and thus remained a spectator, while his teammates were eliminated in the preliminary round. Despite belonging to the team that went down in history by participating in the first World Cup, he was denied any missions in the following years, so he could not show a single participation in an international match.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Numa André Andoire complete profile ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu
2. ↑ Football: Numa Andoire , footballdatabase.eu