Paul Sauvage

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Paul Henri Joseph Sauvage (born March 17, 1939 in La Souterraine / Département Creuse , † December 17, 2019 in Bordeaux ) was a French football player .

Career

The striker began playing football for a club from Guéret , where he was promoted to the youth team national and finished third with France in the 1957 UEFA youth tournament. He then joined Limoges FC , for which he played in the second division in 1957/58 and in the first division from 1958 to 1960 . Then Stade Reims , which had just become champions again, brought him to Champagne . This change was worth 350,000 new francs to the club  and thus the highest transfer fee in its history up to that point; Sauvage himself later said that the associated expectations were "a size too big" for him. In his first season with big names such as Kopa , Fontaine , Piantoni , Vincent , Glovacki , Rodzik , Colonna , Leblond , Muller , Wendling and Siatka , he did not appear until the second half of the season, but was still in the for the first time in March 1961 National team appointed. In 1961/62, especially because of Fontaine's serious injury, he had finally fought for a regular place and won his first championship title at the end of the season. A year later he was runner- up with the Rémois ; this season he was also in the four games of the European championship cup on the field, where he scored both Reims goals in the first leg 2-3 at FK Austria Wien . However , it was only sporadically considered in the Équipe tricolore .

At the end of the 1963/64 season, Reims' crash into the second division followed. Paul Sauvage, who had only hinted at his enforcement qualities at this club - in four years he only scored 22 goals in the league games - then moved to US Valenciennes . With the northern French, where he hit the opposing goal more often, he was third in the championship in 1965 - then a complicated knee injury ended the professional career of the 26-year-old attacker abruptly.

From 1967 he was able to play again in the amateur field (until 1970 in Castets-en-Dorthes near Langon , then two years at his old club in Limoges ). At the same time he found his new livelihood as a representative for pharmaceuticals .

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1962 (and runner-up in 1963)
  • a total of 191 first division appearances (52 goals) from 1958 to 1965, of which 63/15 for Limoges, 99/22 for Reims and 29/15 for Valenciennes
  • 4 appearances (2 goals) in the European Cup (1962/63, with Reims)
  • 6 full international matches (no hit) for France between March 1961 and April 1965, five of them during his time at Reims and one for US Valenciennes

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Remarks

  1. ^ Entry on Paul Henri Joseph Sauvage in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on July 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ Mundial Football 77-78: Les internationaux Français Juniors. , P. 457
  3. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 118 and 130

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personal data
SURNAME Sauvage, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauvage, Paul Henri Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH La Souterraine , Creuse department
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2019
Place of death Bordeaux