Pierre Pibarot

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Pierre Pibarot (born July 23, 1916 in Alès , † November 26, 1981 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

Pibarot came from the youth of Olympique Alès , for whom he was also used in the first division eleven from 1934 . In 1936 he rose - only from this point on as a regular player - with her from the second division , where the team remained until the outbreak of war despite some well-known teammates such as Károly Sós or Josef Schneider . His move to FC Sochaux went hand in hand with the German invasion and the occupation of the country, which  meant that the new club was excluded from regular game operations until 1942 - with the exception of the state cup competition . On the other hand, Pierre Pibarot became a soldier and sustained a leg injury during the Battle of Narvik (1940). After his recovery, he belonged to the FCS war syndicate with the neighboring club AS Valentigney in 1942/43 and the following year the regional selection Équipe Fédérale Nancy-Lorraine, formed on political instructions . When the latter won the French Cup in 1944, Pibarot was not in the final eleven. Reaching the cup semi-final in 1943 in the “forbidden zone” of northeast France, in which the syndicate was defeated by RC Lens 5-0, was his greatest success as a player.

Player stations

  • Olympique Alès (1934–1939, including 1936–1939 in D2)
  • Football Club de Sochaux (1939-1942)
  • Syndicate FC Sochaux / AS Valentigney (1942/43)
  • Équipe Fédérale Nancy-Lorraine (1943/44)
  • Football Club de Sochaux (1944/45, in D2)

Coaching career

1945 brought him his origin club Olympique Alès as a trainer; With this team he was promoted to Division 1 in 1947 . Pibarot was an innovator who relied on a line of defense in particular, which was extremely unusual at a time when the World Cup system still prevailed in Europe . After relegation in 1948 he moved to Olympique Nîmes , with whom he made the second division championship and promotion two years later. With players like Maurice Lafont , Joseph Ujlaki and Kader Firoud , who was to become his successor in 1955, Nîmes consistently reached places in the top third of the table in the years up to 1955 and also reached the cup semi-finals in 1950, when the southern French won 3-0 to Racing Paris failed.

As early as 1951, Pierre Pibarot was appointed by the French FFF as a coach of the senior national team in addition to his club activities ; In this capacity he was responsible for the training and the tactical adjustment of football at international matches - but not for players calling and team's formation: these tasks were the named the Association selection committee (sélectionneurs) to, headed at that time Gaston Barreau and Jean Rigal acted . His first year was marked by a series of successful games, starting with a 2-2 away win against the Englishmen who were still unbeaten at home , victories in Switzerland , over Portugal and Belgium and a 2-2 win in Austria . In the following period, among other things, the grandiose debut of Raymond Kopa in the 3-1 victory of the French over the West German team (October 1952), but also the encounter of the national team against Dutch foreign professionals in favor of the flood victims in Holland (the so-called Watersnoodwedstrijd of March 1953 ). Pibarot also oversaw the selection of the Bleus in the 1954 World Cup , which was disappointing . In the fall of 1954 he was briefly followed by Jules Bigot and then, for many years, Albert Batteux .

In 1958, Pibarot took a position at RC Paris again with a first division, as the successor to Gusti Jordan . He led this team first twice to third place and then twice to the runner-up , held in 1962 only because of the slightly worse goal quotient than Stade Reims from winning the title. In this goal-hungry team with players like Thadée Cisowski , Joseph Ujlaki , François Heutte and Eugène Njo-Léa , he proved that he was by no means just an expert for strong defensive lines, even though this part of the team with Abderrahman Mahjoub , Roger Marche and Jean -Jacques Marcel was well staffed. He made his game idea clear in 1962 with the words: "It doesn't matter whether we lose 1: 2 or 2: 6." Despite his positive record in the capital , he returned to southern France and from 1964 again looked after Olympique Nîmes, who has since become only fed on past fame. The team finished twice in 17th place, but was able to maintain the first division membership both times in the barrages ; In 1967 Olympique then failed as table 18. but in the playoffs and relegated. Whether Pibarot was still coach in Nîmes at the time of the immediate resurgence has not yet been determined. Olympique Lyon followed as the last club station .

Pierre Pibarot, who also looked after the junior national team in 1956 , like the 1960s national coach Georges Boulogne , advocated systematic screening and training of potential national players at an early stage. In the 1970s and now head of the Institut National de Formation , the central “talent factory” of the FFF, he wanted to “prove that the time of the randomly discovered individual talents was over” , and that “fundamental work” had to take their place . Today two stadiums in France bear Pierre Pibarot's name: that of Alès and the largest INF stadium in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines .

Coaching stations

  • Olympique Alès (1945-1948)
  • Nîmes Olympique (1948–1955)
  • Tactician and training manager of the French national team (October 1951 – September 1954)
  • Junior national team coach (1956)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1958–1962)
  • Nîmes Olympique (1964–1967 or 1968)
  • Olympique Lyonnais (? -?)
  • Head of the FFF training center INF: in the 1970s

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: 1944 [without participation in the finals]

As a trainer

  • French champion: Nothing (but runner-up in 1961, 1962)
  • World Cup participant: 1954

literature

  • Almanach du football éd. 1934/35. Paris 1935; ditto éd. 1935/36, 1936/37, 1944/45
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

  1. Almanach 1934/35, p. 70
  2. Almanach 1936/37, p. 73
  3. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 141
  4. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 359/360
  5. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 366
  6. A photo of this team and pibarots can be found in Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 200/201
  7. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 81
  8. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 311-316.
  9. ^ Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9 , p. 78
  10. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , pp. 189f.

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