Pierre Bernard (soccer player)

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Pierre Bernard (born January 27, 1932 in Boissezon , Tarn , † May 28, 2014 ) was a French football player .

Club career

As a teenager and young adult, the goalkeeper played for the Étoile Sportive from Castres near his birthplace ; During this time, his services at the amateur club meant that he was appointed to the French A youth national team and was also used in this during the European Junior Championship in Austria in 1950 . In 1952 he was signed by the first division Girondins Bordeaux , who, thanks to his strong Dutchmen Bertus de Harder and Joop de Kubber, played regularly for the championship until 1955 . There, however, Pierre Bernard had strong competitors in Jean-Guy Astresses and René-Jean Jacquet , and when the Girondins reached the Cup final in 1955 , he was only on the bench. Nevertheless, he came to the relegation of the team in the second division (1956) on 91 league stakes. When the recovery did not succeed immediately, the goalkeeper followed the UA Sedan-Torcy's offer to play in the football upper house again. Among the "workers' footballers" from the Ardennes , he was one of the few who did not pursue any additional professional activity. In the league mostly only playing in the middle of the table, he won his first title there when Sedan-Torcy crowned the 1960/61 season with the cup victory - and this time Bernard, who had recently made his national debut, was in the very close semifinals against his former Girondins as well as during the final (3-1 win over Olympique Nîmes ) in goal. He was personally awarded the Étoile d'Or by France Football , together with Mahi Khennane , for his seasonal achievements, making him France's Footballer of the Year . Nevertheless, a few weeks later, after 114 league appearances for the Ardennes, he switched to final opponent Nîmes, of all places, and was thus back in the south of France. The team of coach Kader Firoud played twice for the title; but she did not achieve more than a third place in 1962.

Pierre Bernard's most successful career began in 1963: Coach Jean Snella brought him to AS Saint-Étienne as the successor to Claude Abbes and into a circle of teammates who, thanks to his mixture of experience (e.g. Jacques Foix , René Ferrier , Rachid Mekhloufi , Maryan Wisnieski , Robert Herbin ) and young hopes such as Aimé Jacquet , André Guy , Hervé Revelli , Jean-Michel Larqué , Bernard Bosquier or Georges Bereta the beginning of the rise of the Verts ("the Greens" is the popular nickname of the ASSE up to the present day) to France's number one marked. In 1964 the goalkeeper won the French championship title with his comrades; In the 1964/65 European Cup, however, came after two games in which Bernard conceded four hits, the end when the favorite was defeated by FC La Chaux-de-Fonds under its German-French player-coach Henri Skiba . For this he won the national championship again with Saint-Étienne in 1967, and as in 1961, he changed clubs immediately after winning the title. In the four years he had hardly missed a competitive game for the Verts (138 stakes); his successor there was also a national goalkeeper with Georges Carnus .

The last professional station of the now 35-year-old was Red Star FC, a traditional and illustrious club that played against relegation rather than for a title. Bernard played more than 60 games in Division 1 for him in two seasons , even scoring one more goal in a league game - which he had already achieved during his time at Sedan-Torcy - and in 1969, after 470 first division games, ended his almost two Active career for decades.

Stations

  • Étoile Sportive Castraise (until 1952)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1952–1957, including 1956/57 in D2)
  • Union Athlétique Sedan-Torcy (1957–1961)
  • Nîmes Olympique (1961–1963)
  • Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (1963-1967)
  • Red Star FC (1967-1969)

In the national team

There were around ten years between Pierre Bernard's appearances for the French youth team and his debut in the national team (3-0 against Bulgaria in December 1960), not long before his 29th birthday. By the end of May 1964, he played in the goalkeeping position almost unchallenged, 20 international matches; However, his international career also fell at a time when the Bleus could neither qualify for the World Cup in Chile nor for the European Championship finals in Spain - the beginning of a long, poorly successful section of international football history, referred to in France as the "gray years".

He was the kind of matter-of-fact, completely unspectacular goalkeeper who “appreciated it when his dress was still clean at the final whistle”, and was characterized by “amazing reflexes and good saves on the goal line” and was also “very sure of the catch”. In his last four games, including his 21st and at the same time (unofficial) farewell game in March 1965 (1: 2 against Austria ), he was also the French team captain. Otherwise he only played one more time against a national team from German-speaking countries: in November 1963 in a 2-2 draw against Switzerland .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1964, 1967
  • French cup winner: 1961 (and finalist 1955, but without commitment)
  • 21 full internationals
  • Junior European Championship participant 1950 (2: 3 in the final against Austria)
  • Awarded the Étoile d'Or as France's footballer of the year: 1960/61

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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-95125-620-5
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Pierre Bernard ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sport.fr
  2. ↑ Mundial Football 77-78: Les internationaux Français Juniors. , P. 457
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 371
  4. ↑ Appearances and hit numbers, also at Bernard's later clubs, according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  5. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 126
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 377
  7. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 60f.
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 320
  9. ↑ Parmentier, p. 66
  10. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 272
  11. ↑ Chaumier, p. 10
  12. ↑ Chaumier, p. 40
  13. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 161
  14. ↑ Information on his missions from L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 321-324
personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Boissezon , Tarn
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2014