Pierre Grillet

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Pierre Grillet, 1953

Pierre Grillet (born March 21, 1932 in Piolenc ; † January 10, 2018 ) was a French football player . For most of his career he played for Racing Club Paris , and he was also used on the national team .

Club career

The right winger started playing football at SC Orange as a teenager in his native region, the Vaucluse . His skills, in particular “his speed and his keen eye for goals”, brought him into the field of view of the national selection coach early on, and in the spring of 1950 he became vice European champion with France's A-youth team in Austria (see below) . Then Racing Paris brought him in the summer of that year for his first division team ; however, until the end of 1952, Pierre Grillet was only used in 13 point games. Then the club, which relegated a few months later, gave him to Toulouse FC . With the "Téfécé" Grillet reached the final of the Coupe Charles Drago in 1953 - in which he was personally absent, however - rose in the same year as division 2 champion in the top division and ended there the following season as a league.

Immediately afterwards, Racing brought him back to the capital , now having returned to the “upper house of football” . Just a quarter of a year later, Grillet was appointed to the national team for the first time. With this club, Grillet soon played regularly for the championship , was fourth in the table in 1957, third in 1959 and 1960 and runner-up in 1961. In his ten years at Racing, however, he was just as unsuccessful in winning the title as he was in the national cup competition , so his Palmarès is not very lavish. During this time, the club had a number of well-known players such as Roger Marche , Abderrahman Mahjoub and the offensive forces Thadée Cisowski , Joseph Ujlaki and François Heutte under coach Pierre Pibarot . And although Cisowski in particular was the  most successful goal-getter in the league - next to Just Fontaine from Reims - for years , the winger and template provider Pierre Grillet was also able to place himself at the top of the D1 scorer list twice : in 1954/55 as 14th with 13 hits and in 1956 / 57 even as 8th with 17 own goals.

At the beginning of the 1961/62 season, Racing sold him after a total of 212 first division games with 69 goals (187/63 of which were for the Parisians) "on trial" to the second division FC Nantes ; The background was the disagreement between the club and the player about the amount of his contractual income. Grillet played several games for Nantes, mostly again with Thadée Cisowski, who also came to the Canaris in 1961, in the attacking formation. However, the West French let him go back to RC Paris after the end of the season. At this point, Pierre Grillet ended his career at the age of thirty due to hip osteoarthritis .

What became of him later cannot be determined at the moment. After all, a stadium in his place of birth now bears the name Stade Pierre-Grillet . At the age of 85, he died in early 2018.

Stations

  • until 1950: Sporting Club Orange (as a youth)
  • 1950 – autumn 1952: Racing Club Paris
  • November 1952–1954: Toulouse FC (until 1953 in D2)
  • 1954–1961: Racing Club Paris
  • 1961/62: FC Nantes (in D2)

As a national player

At that time still an A-youth with a small amateur club, Pierre Grillet took part in the 1950 UEFA youth tournament with the French age group , in which the defending champions lost 3-2 to hosts Austria in the final. As an adult, the attacker played nine senior international matches , in which he also scored two goals. He made his debut in October 1954 in a 3-1 victory in Hanover against the newly crowned world champion Germany , alongside two "greats" of French football, Larbi Ben Barek and Raymond Kopa . After four missions, however, a three-year break followed from 1956, so that he was not included in the line-up of the Bleus for the 1958 World Cup .

He played his last international game in March 1960 in Vienna on the occasion of the 4-2 success in the European Championship qualification over Austria . Grillet then also belonged to the French squad for the European Championship finals in 1960 , but did not appear in his own country because national coach Albert Batteux preferred his Paris team-mate François Heutte in the semi-finals and Yvon Douis in the match for third place .

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1961
  • Finalist of the Coupe Charles Drago: 1953 (not used in the final)
  • National player with 9 appearances and 2 goals, European championship participant 1960 (without commitment)
  • A-Youth Vice European Champion: 1950

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: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • Pierre Minier: 1943-2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 146
  2. ↑ The fact that Grillet did not play for Toulouse in 1960/61, as incorrectly stated by the FFF on his data sheet there (see links) and also at weltfussball.de , but much earlier in his career, is also confirmed by his data sheets on the TFC club website , at footmercato.net and pari-et-gagne.com .
  3. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 154-160
  4. ↑ Use figures 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. 172
  6. ↑ Minier, p. 265
  7. ↑ Minier, p. 42
  8. ↑ according to the website of AS Piolenc ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aspiolenc.footeo.com
  9. ↑ after the message " Pierre Grillet has left us " on January 12, 2018 at fff.fr
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 316f.
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 320f.
personal data
SURNAME Grillet, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Piolenc
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2018