Raoul Diagne

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Raoul Diagne (born November 10, 1910 in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni , French Guiana , † November 4, 2002 in Créteil ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

Raoul Diagne was born as the son of Senegalese- born politician Blaise Diagne , who was the first dark-skinned member of the French National Assembly from 1914 , where he represented French-ruled West Africa . After his parents - mother Marie Odette was a light-skinned French woman - returned with him from French Guiana to metropolitan France , where Raoul continued his training at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , he joined the Racing Club de France from Paris in 1930 . When the professional Division 1 started playing in the summer of 1932 , the defender had long been a member of Racing's team and had even become a national player (see below) . His decision to play as a professional caused him some family problems, because playing football against payment was not appropriate for a member of the upper class at the time.

The 1.87 m tall, elegant and long-legged defensive player, who was also the regional student champion in the high jump in 1929 (best performance 1.85 m), impressed with his maneuverability and feel for the ball. He was also versatile, very persistent and a "master of conquering the ball with fair means". Outside the field, he was considered the “darling of women”; one of his habits was to regularly smoke a cigarette in the dressing room during half-time.

At Racing Paris he was one of the leading players in a team that had strengthened itself with numerous experts from home and abroad since 1932 and had a British coach in Sid Kimpton ; Diagnes teammates until 1940 included u. a. the French Veinante , Delfour , Mercier , Aston , Dupuis , Heisserer , Zatelli , the English Kennedy and from Austria and Hungary Adelbrecht , Hiden , Jordan , Hiltl , Mathé and Weiskopf . In Division 1 , the expensive team came third three times (1935, 1937 and 1939) and won the championship in 1936 . Incidentally, outfield player Diagne played a number of point games as a goalkeeper this season because number 1, Rudi Hiden, who was occasionally prone to starry, went on strike and at times even left Paris to emphasize the demand for her pay to be increased.

Racing Paris was even more successful in the French cup competition , which the club won in 1936, 1939 and 1940. In 1936, the "penguins" - a name common in France for the club's players - found it difficult to overcome the defensive bulwark of the second division OFC Charleville around goalkeeper Darui and the Argentine defensive strategist Helenio Herrera in a 1-0 victory . Three years later, on the other hand, in a 3-1 win over Lille Olympique , Racing had already made everything clear before half-time, although its attackers in the goal of the northern French, as in 1936, faced Julien Darui. The 1940 final was fought for a long time before the late goal made it 2-1. For this finale - a few days before the German troops marched in  - Diagne and the now naturalized Hiden were able to be exempted from military service; others like their teammate Veinante did not receive such a special permit.
The successes of 1936, to which a double came due to the triumph in the championship and the national cup, remained the most important in Raoul Diagnes review (“You never forget such a date!”) , But one episode from the cup final in 1939 has at least the same Big waves made: before the kick-off, Diagne, Jordan and Heisserer took a living penguin as a mascot to the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir , which they had borrowed from a zoo.

In the summer of this year, Diagne left occupied Paris and competed in "free France" for Toulouse FC, at times together with Dupuis and Zatelli, his team-mates from the Racing Club, as well as national players Keller and possibly Ben Bouali . There he was also successful and was 1941 after a 1-0 in the final against AS Saint-Étienne cup winner in the unoccupied part of the country; then the TFC failed on the way to the state finals due to the winner of the occupied zone, the Girondins AS du Port . In 1943 the championship followed in the southern season of the first division; however, both titles are only considered unofficial in France. In the 1943/44 season Raoul Diagne belonged to the Équipe Fédérale Toulouse-Pyrénées , which finished 6th in a nationwide round of points with 15 other regional selections (instead of club teams). From 1944 he played for the amateur club FC Annecy before ending his career in France in 1946. In 1947 he led the Senegalese club US Gorée as a player-coach after a 2-1 final victory over Jeanne d'Arc Dakar to win the title of the Coupe d'AOF , the cup competition of the French West Africa colonial federation . He let the team play as the first team in sub-Saharan Africa in the World Cup system .

Stations

  • Racing Club de France, renamed Racing Club de Paris from 1932 (1930–1940)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1940-1943)
  • Équipe Fédérale Toulouse-Pyrénées (1943/44)
  • Football Club Annecy (1944-1946, as an amateur)
  • Union Sportive de Gorée (May 1947– ?, as player-coach)

In the national team

Between February 1931 and January 1940 Raoul Diagne played a total of 18 full international matches for France ; he did not succeed in this circle. He was the first dark-skinned player to appear for the Bleus . His international career took off slowly (second international match in 1933, third in 1935), and it was not until January 1937 that he became a regular player. He was used in four different positions, seven times as a defender and eleven times as an outside runner . In 1935 he stood three times on the right side of defense next to Étienne Mattler , because Jules Vandooren had not found his way back to his old form after an injury, but from 1938 in nine games exclusively in the left connection in front of his Parisian club-mate Gusti Jordan.

Diagne was also part of the French squad for the 1938 World Cup , in which he was used in both matches of the Équipe tricolore . He has also played twice against teams from German-speaking countries, with France losing out on both occasions: in January 1937 against Austria (1: 2 in Paris ) and in March of the same year against Germany (0: 4 in Stuttgart ). The war prevented him from playing a large number of international matches , because after his last game in early 1940, France only played two games in the following five years until the country was liberated in March 1942, for which the Sélectionneur responsible for the selection Gaston Barreau mainly used players from the occupied north.

Palmarès

  • French Champion: 1936 (and 1943 South Season Champion [unofficial title])
  • French cup winners: 1936, 1939, 1940 (and 1941 cup winners in the unoccupied part of France [unofficial title])
  • 18 full international matches (no hit) for France; World championship participant 1938
  • at least 124 games and 2 goals in Division 1
  • Coupe d'Afrique Occidentale Française winner : 1947

Life after player time

The son of a politician remained connected to football after 1946, trained as a coach and, in this new role, trained at several clubs in his father's West African homeland. This was followed by engagements in Belgium and Algeria before he built up and looked after the Senegal national team after the country gained independence in the early 1960s . With this succeeded at the Jeux de l'Amitié 1963 in Dakar a 2-0 victory over the French B selection. In this country he is considered the "father of national football". Raoul Diagne later settled in France, where he died a few days before his 92nd birthday.

literature

  • Pascal Blanchard: Gods of the black stadium. Panama Al Brown and Raoul Diagne at the time of the colonial exhibition in 1931. In: Tobias Wendl / Bettina von Lintig / Kerstin Pinther (eds.): Black Paris. Art and history of a black diaspora. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 2006 ISBN 3-7795-0065-5 (not used for this article)
  • 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
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. According to this source (November 17, 2002) Diagne did not die until November 12.
  2. ^ Pierre Lanfranchi / Matthew Taylor: Moving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers. Berg Publishers, 2001 ISBN 1859733077 , p. 172
  3. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 142
  4. Chaumier, p. 102; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 141
  5. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 56-58; there also several photos of Diagne, u. a. in training, fishing and boules, as well as on the horse racing track in Chantilly (1938).
  6. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 61
  7. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 91
  8. Guillet / Laforge, pp. 134-141.
  9. Rethacker / Thibert, pp. 135f .; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 142
  10. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 352
  11. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 355
  12. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 356
  13. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 92; in Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 44, there is a team photo of Racing with a penguin and zookeeper in the front row.
  14. Guillet / Laforge, pp. 142-145; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 163
  15. Results of the competition and team line-up for the final at http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/aof.html#1947
  16. Bocar Ly: Football. Histoire de la Coupe d'AOF NEAS, Dakar 1990, ISBN 2-7236-1072-1 , p. 17
  17. Chaumier, p. 102
  18. L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 302-308.
  19. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 165
  20. player profile at pari-et-gagne.com ; There, however, Diagnes ’league appearances in 1933/34 and 1937/38 are completely absent (as well as on player profile at rcp.ifrance.com ( memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )).
  21. Interview with El Hadj Malick Sy ( memento of March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), who was himself a player at Jeanne d'Arc Dakar under coach Diagne and later President of the Senegalese Football Association (French; from ICONE Magazine of December 28, 2007 )
  22. http://www.afrik.com/article5280.html
  23. Chaumier, p. 102

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