René Dedieu

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René Dedieu (born August 27, 1899 in Cette , † November 21, 1985 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

In his clubs

René Dedieu, who remained loyal to his Languedoc homeland throughout his playing days , began playing organized football as a youth in his school team and soon afterwards at Olympique Cettois , which was called FC Cette from 1914 on. In 1917 he was drafted as a soldier, awarded the orders of Croix de guerre , Nischan el Iftikhar and Croix du Combattant , wounded on the World War Front in 1918 and, after an operation, was able to support his club again in 1919. In 1920/21 he played one season for the honorary division SC Nîmes , at a time when it was still officially forbidden to be paid for it, as he later revealed:

“I was sitting in the Café du Louvre in Sète, where Fernand Augade [an official from Nîmes] lured me with the offer to play for the Sporting Club as team captain, against reimbursement of my expenses for train journeys and two meals plus 50  francs as loss of earnings, what corresponded to two daily wages of one worker. "

He then returned to FC Cette, where these practices - known in France as amateurisme marron ("dishonest amateur status") - were also the order of the day under its president, Georges Bayrou , and who also invested in the stadium infrastructure, making local people Seduced footballers as well as foreigners, as René Dedieu admitted:

"We were one of the first [French] clubs to have hot showers because [our Scottish player-coach] Gibson wanted to have what he was used to from England."

At Cette Dedieu appeared in the national cup for the first time nationwide when he and his team were in the 1923 final , which the FC lost to Red Star AC 2: 4 . Then the “excellent left connector ”, who was characterized by “his sober, direct style of play, his virtuosity in defensive work [and] his tight shot”, wore the SC Nîmes dress again for three years, and during this time he became to the national team (see below) . Since 1920 René Dedieu was also regularly in the regional selection of the Ligue du Sud-Est , for which he made 17 appearances by 1932, which made him their record player between the world wars.

From 1926 Dedieu played for seven years at SO Montpellier , where he was often used in the middle runner position . With SOM he won his first national title when the team won the 1929 cup with a 2-0 final victory over FC Sète - as their "home club" has now written itself . A few weeks later, he came into conflict with Montpellier's amateur status when, according to a newspaper report, he was supposed to have organized a friendly tour of the team through French North Africa , the proceeds of which flowed into the pockets of the players. Two years later he was with his team again in the national cup final , in which, however, the Club Français Paris retained the upper hand after a 3-0. During this time René Dedieu took over the functions of player-coach and club secretary. When a nationwide league was introduced in France in the 1932/33 season , he played - alongside Joseph Kaucsar and Abdelkader Ben Bouali  - also under legal professional conditions and reached fourth place in Group B with SOM. His team-mate Yves Dupont , who later also experienced Dedieu as a coach in Sète, described him as a "balanced sportsman , characterized by cleverness and restraint , with his blonde hair very 'English' and of confident demeanor". In 1933 he returned to FC Sète, where coach Dedieu did not use himself as a player in either the championship or the cup.

Club stations

  • 1912–1920 Olympique Cettois (from 1914: FC Cette)
  • 1920/21 SC Nîmes
  • 1921-1923 FC Cette
  • 1923-1926 SC Nimes
  • 1926–1933 SO Montpellier
  • 1933–1935 FC Sète

In the national team

Between November 1924 and June 1927 René Dedieu, who also completed 6 B internationals, played 6 A internationals for France ; his debut took place on the occasion of a 3-0 defeat in Belgium ; It was not until a year and a half later that he wore the blue national jersey again in a victory over Portugal , and he also played for the French in three other friendlies in May and June 1926, including the 1: 4 against Austria . Twelve months later, the selection committee of the FFFA football association reappointed him ; the memorable 1:13 against Hungary , the Bleus' greatest defeat between the world wars, which the expert journalist Lucien Gamblin described in L'Auto as the "disaster of Budapest", was his last appearance in this circle. In his article, Gamblin blamed the FFFA officials (sélectionneurs) for this "destruction of our team" rather than the players :

“It is customary for the [Association] office to congratulate Sélectionneurs and players after every game, however the outcome. Sure, we don't have a significant number of international class players. But undoubtedly our Sélectionneurs have gone the wrong way by appointing some brave football players who […] have no place in a team that could compete with the big foreign teams. People are just too sure of their judgments [at FFFA]; You can't blame the players. "

The editor-in-chief of France Football put it a little more cautiously in 2004: It was Dedieu's bad luck that he was one of them "at a time when the national team was not exactly at the highest level".

Coaching career

In his first year as a coach, he achieved the greatest success of his career. In the 1933/34 season he led a strongly staffed FC Sète with players such as René Llense , Ivan Bek and István Lukács not only to the championship in Division 1 , but also to win the coupe after a 2-1 final victory over Olympique Marseille de France ; thus he made his long-term club the first ever doublé winner in France. In the following year, the Dauphins - so the nickname of the club in use to this day - finished the league in fourth place. There followed a season at SO Montpellier, who are now only second class , and which he could not bring beyond a table midfield position. In 1936 René Dedieu worked outside his home region for the first time, but after leading Excelsior AC Roubaix to 8th place in the first division, he returned to Languedoc and trained for Olympique Alès until the end of the war in 1945 , with whom he reached the semi-finals of the 1940/41 Cup occupied zone of France. In Alès, however, he was not continuously active, because at the end of the 1941/42 season he was again in a cup final in the coaching bench of FC Sète, which finally lost the game 2-0 to Red Star Olympique.

After the liberation of France, he worked at FC Nancy , which he helped to move up to Division 1 in 1946 , then back to the Mediterranean coast until 1951 at the amateur club Racing Club Agde and one season each at the second division FC Grenoble and - as co-coach of Jean Snella once again in the top division - at AS Saint-Étienne . From 1953 he was again in charge of Olympique Alès, whom he led to Division 1 in 1957 . When the team had to be relegated again in 1959, he accepted the offer to return to FC Grenoble, and barely a year later had made this one too promoted to the upper house of football. However, he himself ended his sporting career immediately after this last success.

Coaching stations

  • 1933–1935: FC Sète
  • 1935/36: SO Montpellier (in D2)
  • 1936/37: Excelsior AC Roubaix
  • 1937–1945: Olympique Alès (in D2)
    • in between at least 1941/42: FC Sète
  • 1945/46: FC Nancy (in D2)
  • 1946–1951: Racing Club Agde (amateur)
  • 1951/52: FC Grenoble (in D2)
  • 1952/53: AS Saint-Étienne (as assistant coach)
  • 1953–1959: Olympique Alès (1953–1957 in D2)
  • 1959/60: FC Grenoble (in D2)

Palmarès

As a player
  • French Cup Winner: 1929 (and finalist 1923, 1931)
  • 6 international appearances for France
  • 17 appearances and thus record players in the regional selection of the Ligue du Sud-Est
As a trainer
  • French champion: 1934
  • French Cup Winner: 1934 (and finalist 1942)
  • Promotion to Division 1 : 1946, 1957, 1960
Personal awards
  • Porters of the Croix de Guerre , the Nischan el Iftikhar and the Croix du Combattant

literature

  • 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
  • Yves Dupont: La Mecque du football ou Mémoires d'un Dauphin. Self-published, Sète 1973
  • 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: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dupont, p. 375
  2. ↑ Dupont, p. 371
  3. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 36f.
  4. ↑ Rethacker, p. 18
  5. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 38
  6. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 90
  7. ↑ Dupont, p. 373
  8. ↑ According to Dupont, p. 374, he was no longer with SC Nîmes as early as 1925; however, the fact that Dedieu played his third international match in May 1926 as Nîmois speaks against it - cf. Chaumier, p. 90; L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 382.
  9. ^ At L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 64, there is a photo of René Dedieu during the "lap of honor" after the final.
  10. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 49
  11. ↑ Dupont, p. 370
  12. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 133
  13. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 124
  14. ↑ all information on Dedieu's international matches from L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 297–299
  15. ↑ The article is reproduced in facsimile in L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 36.
  16. ↑ Rethacker, pp. 20/21
  17. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 358
  18. ↑ The information on Dedieu's trainer stations essentially follows Dupont, p. 375.
personal data
SURNAME Dedieu, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Cette , France
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1985