Pierre Flamion

Pierre Flamion in 1949

Pierre Flamion (born December 13, 1924 in Mohon , Ardennes department , † January 3, 2004 in Dijon ) was a French football player and coach .

The player career

In the club

At the age of 19, still in the middle of World War II , the young left winger , who was also a good athlete (champagne champion over 100 meters and long jump), came with his from a small town that is now part of Charleville-Mézières Ex-club mate Roger Marche at Stade de Reims . In this season (1943/44), instead of club teams, so-called regional selections ( Équipes Fédérales ) played for championship and cup honors in occupied France - and with the ÉF Reims-Champagne , the young newcomer was in the final of the French Cup just a few weeks after his arrival , which was clearly lost against the ÉF Nancy-Lorraine . The following year there was another championship for clubs, and Pierre Flamion was part of the team that finished the season 1944/45 in fourth place in the northern group.

After the liberation in 1945, games normalized in France (again a league for the whole country), professionalism was again permitted in sport, and Flamion played for Stade Reims in Division 1 , the highest league in the country , for the next five years . Next to him stood alongside Marche, his friend from Mohon, with Albert Batteux , Pierre Sinibaldi , Robert Jonquet and Armand Penverne , several of the footballers who made the name of the club famous throughout Europe from the mid-1950s.

But even before that, the team won the championship (1949) and cup (1950); Flamion made a decisive contribution to the championship with 13 goals as the second-best Rémois shooter . And in 1948 he had already become a national player.

Then Flamion, who moved from the left wing to the half-forward position, played one year for Olympique Marseille , three years (two of them in the second division) at Olympique Lyon and another three years for AS Troyes (one year only second class). With Troyes he was again in the cup final in 1956. With Limoges FC he rose as a player-coach in 1958 in the first division and then finally moved to the coaching bench. He scored a total of 71 goals in Division 1.

Stations

• ASC Mohon
• Stade de Reims (1944–1950)
• Olympique Marseille (1950/51)
• Olympique Lyon (1951–1954)
• AS Troyes-Savinienne (1954-1957)
• Limoges FC (player-manager, 1957/58)

In the national team

Between May 1948 and November 1953, Pierre Flamion played a total of 17 times in the Équipe Tricolore , including seven for Reims, three each for Marseille and Lyon and four for Troyes. He also scored eight goals for Les Bleus , including a "brace" in two games.

The coaching career

In Limoges , Flamion remained a coach until 1962 (in the first and second division). Later he also coached his former club Stade Reims, which was only defeated in the cup final in 1977 against AS Saint-Étienne , and Troyes Aube, which he brought back to the D 1 in 1973 . Further stations were FC Metz , Thionville and Chaumont , where he worked for a total of ten years and led the club Entente Chaumontaise AC twice (1966 and 1985) to Division 2 , the second division. He was so fondly remembered that in the summer of 2004, soon after his death, the city renamed the stadium the Stade Pierre Flamion and celebrated this event with a game between the old division teams of Chaumont and Troyes.

Stations

• Limoges FC (1957–1962)
• Entente Chaumontaise AC (1962–1968)
• FC Metz (1968–1970)
• Troyes Aube Football (1971-1975)
• Stade de Reims (1975–1978)
• La Sportive Thionvilloise (1979–1981)
• Entente Chaumontaise AC (1983–1987)
• ATAC Troyes (1992/93)

Palmarès

• French champion : 1949
• French cup winner : 1950, also finalist in 1944, 1956 (as a player) and 1977 (as a coach)
• 17 international matches, 8 goals
• 285 appearances and 106 goals in the D1 (152/65 for Reims, 29/11 for Marseille, 32/5 for Lyon, 62/24 for Troyes, 10/1 for Limoges)

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