Raymond Bellot

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Raymond Bellot (born June 9, 1929 in Alfortville - † February 24, 2019 ) was a French football player .

Club career

The inside forward was one of almost one and a half decades of the assets, which in France's top league have been used, but never a national title in Championship and Cup won or drew attention through spectacular performances lasting up. Raymond Bellot began and ended his professional career in the area in which he was born and raised: From 1950 to 1953 he played for the Paris Racing Club , with which he was ranked 13th in the 1951 table. was and reached the cup quarter-finals in the same season, but could not prevent relegation to Division 2 in 1953 . And from 1959 to 1964 Bellot was under contract with the other major capital city club of the post-war decades, Stade Français . Except for a 10th place (1961/62) he played there permanently - and successfully insofar as you always fluctuated between 14th and 16th in the final tables - against relegation.

In between, however, there were five seasons with two southern French clubs with significantly better results. With Toulouse FC he was fourth in 1953/54 and even runner-up in 1954/55; there he had found a strike partner in René Dereuddre , with whom he harmonized brilliantly. Nevertheless, he moved to AS Monaco in 1955 , where he also played for the championship for three more years (two league thirds and one fifth place in the final standings) and reached the semi-finals of the 1958 Cup with the Monegasque, in which, however, Olympique Nîmes finished with 2: 1 prevailed before Bellot returned to Paris.

Stations

  • Racing Club de France (1950–1953, 52 appearances / 0 goals)
  • Toulouse FC (1953–1955, 58/10)
  • AS Monaco (1955-1958, 89/9)
  • Stade Français Paris (1959–1964, 139/6)

A total of 338 games and 25 goals in Division 1 .

As a reservist at the World Cup finals

In the summer of 1958, Raymond Bellot was also part of France's World Cup squad , but never played an A international match at the finals in Sweden or anywhere else. In any case, like some other reservists, Sélectionneur Paul Nicolas and trainer Albert Batteux only appointed him because they had considerable personnel concerns, especially on the offensive: Thadée Cisowski and René Bliard were injured shortly before, and the Algerian-born Rachid Mekhloufi , Abdelaziz Ben Tifour and Mustapha Zitouni (the latter two were Bellot's teammates in Monaco) had decided to support the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) against French rule in their home country's struggle for independence . After they had played in an Algerian FLN national team in April 1958, they were no longer considered by the French Football Association , and so Raymond Bellot was then able to decorate himself with the success of a World Cup third without a single minute of play.

Remarks

  1. ↑ All information on Bellot's clubs from Alex Graham: Football in France. A statistical record 1894-2005. Soccer Books, Cleethorpes 2005 ISBN 1-86223-138-9 , pp. 67-95.
  2. ↑ Data from 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.
personal data
SURNAME Bellot, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Alfortville
DATE OF DEATH February 2019