Armand Penverne

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Armand Penverne (born November 26, 1926 in Pont-Scorff , Morbihan department , † February 28, 2012 near Marseille ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

1947–1956: one success follows the next

Little is known about the footballing beginnings of the rather defensive outside runner and the circumstances of his move from Brittany to Champagne ; In 1933 his parents moved to Versailles for professional reasons . In the 1947/48 season he played his first game in Division 1 for Stade de Reims , and just a year later he was French champion for the first time , and in 1950 also a cup winner . In 1952 he played his first international match for the Équipe Tricolore , in 1953 he won his second championship title and the Coupe Latine , in 1954 he took part in his first World Cup finals, in 1955 he was again national champion, first winner of the French Supercup, was a finalist in the Coupe Latine and recorded first appearances in the newly created European Cup . However, he was missing in the final, which was lost to Real Madrid 3-4 in 1956 .

An important player in one of the best teams in Europe

The list of Armand Penverne's team-mates at Reims reads like a who's who of French football in the 1950s: between goalkeeper ( Paul Sinibaldi , later Dominique Colonna ) and top-class offensive players ( Raymond Kopa , Bram Appel , Pierre Sinibaldi , Michel Hidalgo , Léon Glovacki , René Bliard , Jean Vincent , Just Fontaine , Roger Piantoni ) were sure defensive players such as Roger Marche , Robert Jonquet , Albert Batteux , Michel Leblond , Simon Zimny - and just over a decade also Penverne, whose style of play is described as objective and reliable, but who was also the "strategic head" when switching from defense to attack. Albert Batteux, by the way, accompanied and supported Penverne's career in three ways: as a teammate (until 1950), as a club coach (1950–1959) and as a selectionneur of the national team (from 1955).

1957–1959: "Stop when it's at its best"

The 1957/58 season, which was probably his most successful, showed that all of the previous successes had by no means “fed” Penverne. This season he won the French doublé of championship (Penverne was missing in only one game) and cup with Reims , was again Supercup winner of his country and took part in his second soccer world championship, which ended with France's best result at a World Cup : Les Bleus finished third in Sweden , and after beating Germany 6-3 in the third place match, their team captain Penverne was the first to get the medal.

After Reims' second European Cup final against Real Madrid (1959), in which the now 32-year-old stood on the lawn of the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium himself and which was a final sporting highlight for him despite the 2-0 defeat, Penverne parted ways Stade Reims to end his active time at Red Star Paris in the second division. In 1960/61 he returned to the top division after all ; at Limoges FC , where his former teammate Pierre Flamion worked successfully as a coach, he could no longer win titles, but still made 32 first division appearances and three goals.

The national player

Between October 1952 and December 1959 Armand Penverne played a total of 39 times (36 times for Reims, 3 times for Red Star) in the Equipe Tricolore , where he also scored two goals (one of them in his second game, the 2-1 in Austria ) and was also the team captain of Bleus in seven international matches . He was also used in an unofficial international match, the Watersnoodwedstrijd against Dutch professional footballers on March 12, 1953.

He was a participant in the World Cup finals in 1954 (one use) and 1958 (all six games, in the 6: 3 against Germany for third place as captain). He gave his international farewell at the end of 1959 in a 5-2 win over Austria .

Living after time as an active person

Even after his last year as a player at Limoges, football still played an important role: Penverne took over the coaching position at the crisis-ridden second division Olympique Marseille , but ended his engagement after just six months. This was followed by a time as a player-coach at the lower-class Étoile Sportive et Club Naval La Ciotat . He then worked for several years as the representative of the business of his former teammate Raymond Kopa in the south of France.

Penverne died at the age of 85 on February 28, 2012 in Marseille.

Penvernes career at a glance

Stations

  • 1947-1959: Stade de Reims
  • 1959/60: Red Star Paris (in the D2)
  • 1960/61: Limoges FC
  • Trainer at Olympique Marseille
  • Player-coach at ESCN La Ciotat

Palmarès

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the article “Armand Penverne nous a quittés” of March 2, 2012 on the website of the French Football Association (French). According to Marc Barreaud / Alain Colzy: Les géants du Stade de Reims. Euromedia, Douzy 2012, ISBN 979-10-90217-07-2 , p. 42, he died in Marseille.
  2. ^ France Football: Les Top 50 des joueurs bretons. Issue 3550 from April 29, 2014, p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Penverne, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-Scorff , France
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2012
Place of death near Marseille , France