René Bliard

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René Bliard (born October 18, 1932 in Dizy , Département Marne , † September 27, 2009 in Champigny ) was a French football player .

The club career

The son of a winemaker grew up near Épernay , less than 20 km south of Reims , and came to Stade Reims as a teenager . In the 1953/54 season the striker played for his club for the first time in Division 1 , the highest league in the country, one of the most successful European clubs of the 1950s. At the side of Raymond Kopa , Robert Jonquet and Léon Glovacki , Bliard was runner-up right away. Just one year later he played 32 of the 34 games, was national champion and had also contributed 30 goals, which "incidentally" earned him the top scorer's crown . In the last third of this season he was appointed to the Équipe Tricolore for the first time - all of that at the age of 22.

In the 1955/56 season there were only 19 first division clubs, but René Bliard was among other things in the very first European Cup final (3: 4 against Real Madrid ) and had contributed five goals on the way. Several injuries followed, which threatened to end his career, but he bite through, did not let Reims' new acquisitions Just Fontaine , Jean Vincent and Roger Piantoni displace him from the front row and celebrated his most successful year in 1957/58. He was national champion with Stade, cup winner (with two Bliard goals in the final to 1-0 and 3-1 final score) and Supercup winner, was again among the top ten scorers in Division 1 - and injured again, so that he had to do without the World Cup in Sweden . As the last highlight of his eight years in the service of Stade Reims, the convalescent was also in the second European Cup appearance in the final (1959), which was again won by Real Madrid. 1959/60 loaned to the second division Red Star Paris , he returned briefly to Reims in 1960, but was only used twice in the championship, switched to FC Rouen during the season and ended his career there in 1962.

The national player

Between March 1955 and April 1958, René Bliard wore the national jersey a total of seven times . His susceptibility to injury meant that he had to travel back to France from Sweden immediately before the 1958 World Cup finals and, despite subsequent successes with Reims, he was later not allowed to play for Les Bleus . His bad luck was Fontaine's luck, who only moved up as a replacement in the World Cup squad and then made a lasting impression there.

Palmarès

Life after football

René Bliard sold cars for the next 20 years, then worked in the sports department of Villiers-sur-Marne and retired in the region.

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Un ancien nous quitte ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 29, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ancienstadedereims.free.fr
personal data
SURNAME Bliard, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dizy (Marne)
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2009
Place of death Champigny (Marne)