Pierre Schwinté

Pierre Schwinte (* 6. March 1922 in Strasbourg ; † 11. March 2000 ibid), in the German printing units usually Pierre Schwinte written, was a French football referee , among others at the 1960 Olympics and at the World Cup finals in 1962 and 1966 was used .

Career

In French professional football, Pierre Schwinté was used in the second and first division from the 1951/52 season . By the end of his career (1967) he headed 74 second, 234 first division and 36 main round games in the state cup competition ; including the 1963 cup final and its repeat match . There were also game organizers abroad, for example in the Greek league .

From 1958 he also headed international games and represented France at the 1960 Olympic football tournament in Rome , where he was referee of the preliminary round group match between Italy and Brazil. Two years later he traveled to the World Cup in Chile , where FIFA used him as an arbitrator ( Brazil against Czechoslovakia ) and as a line judge (Brazil against Mexico ) in one preliminary round match . Due to the achievements shown, it was also considered as “23. Man ”of the quarter-final match between Brazil and England .
Schwinté also took part in the World Cup in 1966, after his compatriot Maurice Guigue had retired as the undisputed top referee in France . In England he acted as a referee in North Korea's 1-0 preliminary round win over Italy and also in the semi-final game between England and Portugal , in which, according to Hardy Green, "turned a blind eye to a Stiles handball in the penalty area," and two missions as linesmen , namely in the preliminary round ( Soviet Union against Chile ) and in the memorable quarter-final match Portugal against North Korea, which the Portuguese were able to win 5-3 after an early 0-3 deficit.

For the two European championship finals during his time ( 1960 in France and 1964 in Spain ), however, Schwinté was not appointed; however, at the end of 1963 he headed the first of the three quarterfinals (final score 3: 3) between Luxembourg and Denmark . Of the national teams from German-speaking countries, the Alsatian whistled particularly often in friendly matches between the Austrians , and all of them away: in 1959 in a 3: 6 against Spain , in 1960 the 2: 1 win over Italy and in 1962 and 1965 against England (1: 3 and 3: 2). The Swiss (1: 1 in Belgium , 1966) also made acquaintance with Schwinté, but not the West German team .

In the international cup competitions for club teams, Pierre Schwinté also led a number of decisive games with top-class participants. The highlights at this level were (in chronological order) the final return match between AS Roma and Birmingham City at the Messestädte-Pokal 1960/61 , the play-off between Real Madrid and Juventus Turin in the quarter-finals of the European Cup in the Parisian Prinzenpark 1961/62 , the final second leg for the 1962 World Cup ( Benfica Lisbon against FC Santos with three goals from Pelé and one from Eusébio ) and finally the final for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1965/66 between Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool FC , in which the Borussia won 2-1 after extra time.

Schwinté was considered a referee who liked to let the game go and preferred the personal admonition of the “sinner” in the event of rule violations; in almost 400 matches he only sent five players off the field. His whistle remained silent, however, even with a foul that made football history in the spring of 1960 because it ended the career of the 26-year-old "national center forward icon" Just Fontaine von Stade Reims prematurely due to a double fracture of the tibia and fibula. But Pierre Schwinté had not even warned the perpetrator, Sékou Touré from FC Sochaux .

After finishing his active time, Pierre Schwinté worked in various functions at the Alsace Football Association , the Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association , including as President of the Commission for Public Relations. He also supported the young Robert Wurtz intensively - Wurtz himself says that Schwinté met with him at least once a week in order to train him theoretically and practically - who developed into a top referee. In the LAFA, however, Pierre Schwinté fell out with its then chairman around 1970 and contributed significantly to his forced resignation. In 1971 he co-authored the textbook L'arbitrage du football .

literature

• Collectif (Ed .: Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association): 100 ans de football en Alsace. Édito, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-911219-13-9 , Volume 5: Petites et grandes histoires du football alsacien de 1890 à nos jours.
• Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia 1930-2006. AGON, Kassel 2004 ² , ISBN 3-89784-261-0
• Robert Wurtz (and Paul Rembert): Au cœur du football. 25 ans d'arbitrage. Robert Laffont, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-221-06907-2

Web links

• Datasheet Schwintés at footballdatabase.eu

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Life data on GénéaFrance.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The spelling Schwinté is used by both the Alsatian Football Association , to which the referee belonged during his career (Collectif, p. 133ff.), And the referee Robert Wurtz , who was intensively promoted by Schwinté in the 1960s and also several times on the sidelines assisted (Wurtz, pp. 78-87).
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 379
4. ^ Collectif, p. 141
5. ↑ according to the tournament data at rsssf.com
6. ↑ Greens, WM, pp. 174 and 179
7. ^ Greens, WM, p. 205; however, other authors do not mention this process in their match reports, neither Olaf Edig / Daniel Meuren / Nicole Selmer: Football World Cup 1966 England. AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-208-4 , p. 90/91, still Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling / Hubert Dahlkamp: The history of the soccer world championships. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-336-0 , pp. 188f., Or SZ WM-Bibliothek: England 1966. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-155-1 , pp. 84ff.
8. ^ Greens, WM, pp. 198, 203 and 205
9. ^ Hardy Greens: Football European Championship encyclopedia 1960-2008. AGON, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-241-6 , p. 28ff. and 45ff.
10. ↑ ^{a b} see Schwinté's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (under web links )
11. ↑ DFB (Ed.): Passion for the ball. 100 years of German international matches 1908 to 2008. Medienfabrik, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-577-14701-9 , pp. 342–348
12. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 105
13. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , pp. 218/219
14. ↑ Wurtz, p. 79, and SZ-WM-Bibliothek: England 1966. , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-155-1 , p. 87, mention the fact that Schwinté at the World Cup semi-finals England-Portugal for the first time after 30 minutes on free kick decided.
15. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 174
16. ^ Collectif, p. 139
17. ↑ Wurtz, especially pp. 80/81
18. ^ Collectif, p. 140
19. ↑ see the title information at alsatica.eu