RC Agde
The Racing Club Olympique Agathois or RC Agde for short is a French football club from Agde , in the Hérault department near the Mediterranean coast; Agathois is the adjective for the name of the municipality. The club colors are red and black; the fighting team plays its home games nowadays in the Stade Louis-Sanguin , named after the club's founder , which has a capacity of 3,500 spectators, or the Stade Daniel-Rivalta , which is equipped with artificial turf ; both are in Agde's old town.
history
The club was founded in 1904 under the name Racing Club Agathois by a handful of young men, one of whom, Louis Sanguin, had played football for a short time in Marseille and wanted to continue to do so in his hometown. In January 1905 Racing joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA), the only secular sports association up to that time that also accepted footballers. However, his teams did not participate in regular league games until after the First World War - from then on under the umbrella of the unified association FFFA - and it was not until 1935 that Agde's first men's team was promoted to the highest regional amateur division, the Division d'Honneur .
Even after the Second World War , racing only played a role in regional league operations for a very long time, but between the mid-1970s and 1980s only narrowly missed promotion to the national amateur leagues several times; this only succeeded in the early 1990s. The interest of the spectators and the support from the city administration remained rather low in the long term. In 1999 the club was renamed Racing Club Olympique Agathois after the merger of the Racing Club with local rivals Football Olympique Agathois , which was founded in 1987 .
League affiliation and achievements
Racing Agathois has never had professional status and never played in the first or second division . Since 1997 Agde has been commuting between fourth and fifth grade; In 2013/14 he competed in the fifth class CFA 2 .
In the national cup competition, on the other hand, the teams from Agde have managed to qualify for the main round across France in thirteen events so far, for the first time in 1934 and for the last time in 2006 . This was the case particularly frequently in the 1930s / 1940s and 1960s, but twice in the 21st century. The Racing Club even reached the sixteenth finals in five events.
The Agdes Cup course was legendary in the 1963/64 season , when it was still the rule that tied games were extended; if there was still no winner after that, there was a replay according to the same procedure. The Agathois had to play a total of seven games against two higher-class opponents (ES Bagnols-Marcoule and then Pierrot's Strasbourg), five of which were over 120 minutes each; This year they spent a total of 13 (instead of the usual three) hours on the lawn. And that does not include the time when players from Agde and Strasbourg were in police custody because they had had a fight in the changing rooms. A newspaper headlined "Agde fell in the 440th minute". In 1969 , the Agathois made the headlines again in this competition - and again not only in terms of sport. Against the namesake from Bollène , the referee broke off the game prematurely when the score was 2: 1 for Agde, and the repetition game scheduled by the association ended before the end of regular time. Since Racing Club Bollène had led 2-0, the FFF Cup Commission declared it the winner at the “green table”. The literature used only indicates that the "heated fans of RC Agde" were responsible for the abandonment of the game in this " Midi - Derby ".
Well-known former players and coaches
- Raymond Cicci , coach 1969–1973
- Affo Érassa , Togolese international, 2006/07 for the RCO
- René Franquès , B national player during his time in Agde (until 1934)
- Florian Raspentino , 2010/11 at the RCO
- Rudy Riou , in the 1990s (as a teenager)
- François Szego (born in 1915 as Ferenc Szűcs), player- coach until at least 1969, coach from 1974
literature
- Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4