René Ferrier

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René Ferrier (born December 7, 1936 in Thionne , Allier department , † September 15, 1998 ) was a French football player .

Club career

The tall outside runner came to first division AS Saint-Étienne (ASSE) in 1954 and was used by coach Jean Snella when he was just 18 years old in the professional team. He looked elegant and used his team right from the start with precise templates in the build-up of the game and good defensive work. He benefited from the fact that the Verts - "the Greens" is a name for Saint-Étiennes players derived from the color of their jerseys in France - with Kees Rijvers , Rachid Mekhloufi , Eugène Njo-Léa , Yvon Goujon and goalkeeper Claude Abbes was heavily staffed. At the end of the 1956/57 season, René Ferrier won his first title as French champion in this circle and was also world champion with the French national military team . At the end of 1958, the midfielder was appointed to the senior national team for the first time (see below) . Until 1961, the ASSE always reached a single-digit table position in Division 1 ; The exception was the 1959/60 season, at the end of which Ferrier was in a state cup final for the first time . However, AS Monaco won this 4-2 after extra time.

Two years later, the Verts reached the cup final again, and after their 1-0 victory over FC Nancy , René Ferrier was also able to hold the coveted trophy this time. A few weeks later, however, came the cold shower: the cup winner was relegated to Division 2 . Ferrier remained loyal to Saint-Étienne and returned twelve months later (1963) as the second division champion in the upper house of football, where the climber surprisingly stormed to the top of the table and won the championship of the 1963/64 season. In addition to the side runner, Robert Herbin , Aimé Jacquet and striker André Guy were a number of new players in the ranks of the ASSE, with whom Rachid Mekhloufi was also able to put himself in the limelight after a four-year interlude with the Algerian "independence team" . Coach Snella also returned to the Loire at the start of the season .

Ferrier was on the field in all eight European Cup matches that the ASSE contested during this time, and in the summer of 1957 had already taken part in the Coupe Latine . In the club's very first home appearance in a UEFA competition (September 1957), he scored the decisive goal for a 2-1 win in the 87th minute in the second leg of the championship cup against Glasgow Rangers , which was not enough to advance. Also in 1964/65 the Verts ended in the first round (2: 2 and 1: 2 against the Swiss FC La Chaux-de-Fonds ). In between there was at least one little sense of achievement in the 1962/63 Cup Winners Cup , when they first prevailed against Vitória Setúbal . In the second round, however, 1. FC Nürnberg stopped all further hopes with 0-0 and 0-3.

After eleven years with Saint-Étienne, René Ferrier was sold in 1965 to the ambitious second division club SEC Bastia . In the following three years he always played for promotion with the Corsicans - in 1967 Bastia failed in the barrage and only had to make it to the quarter-finals in the cup competition after three games (1: 1 a.s., 0: 0 a : 1) bow to the higher-class FC Sochaux - which, however, was a long time coming. The following year, Ferrier - together with Rachid Mekhloufi, who came as player- coach at the beginning of the season - led the newcomer to a very respectable sixth place in Division 1 ; then he ended his professional career.

Stations

  • Cusset
  • Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne (1954–1965, 1962/63 in D2)
  • Sporting Étoile Club Bastiais (1965–1969, only 1968/69 in D1)

In the national team

After his missions for the Military National Team appointed Albert Batteux Ferrier in December 1958 for the first time in the A-national team . By December 1964, he played 24 international matches. In his last three encounters - under Batteux's successor Henri Guérin , previously Ferriers coach at AS Saint-Étienne - he also ran three times as the Bleus team captain . At the first European Championship (1960) he was part of the French squad and played in the semifinals against Yugoslavia , one of the most memorable French games in terms of history: the European Championship hosts led after an initial deficit at halftime with 2: 1 and after 62 Minutes even 4: 2 before the Yugoslavs met three more times in the final quarter of an hour and made it to the final. Ferrier's national team career did not affect this disappointment, unlike some of his teammates, however.

He has also played against national teams from German-speaking countries - against Austria in December 1959 and March 1960 (5-2 home and 4-2 away win), against Switzerland (2-6 in October 1960 in Basel ), and West Germany (2: 2 in October 1962 in Stuttgart ) and Luxembourg (away 2: 0 in October 1964).

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1957, 1964
  • French Cup Winner: 1962 (and finalist 1960)
  • 24 A-internationals (no hit) for France, European championship participant 1960
  • Military world champion 1957
  • 259 games and 36 goals in Division 1 , including 236/32 for Saint-Étienne and 23/4 for Bastia
  • 8 European Cup matches (1 goal)
  • Participation in the Coupe Latine: 1957

Life after footballing career

In 1969 René Ferrier returned to central France and settled in Brive-la-Gaillarde , where he worked for the municipal utilities and also trained ESA Brive . He later lived temporarily in Blois , where he also looked after the local amateur team ( AAJ Blois ), then in Autun . Finally he found a job as a sports teacher at the local social welfare office in Saint-Etienne , the city of his greatest football successes. He died in 1998, at the age of 62.

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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 122
  2. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 275
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 376
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 378
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 313
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 320
  7. ↑ Parmentier, p. 60
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 383
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 106/107 and 320-324
  10. ↑ Numbers 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.
  11. ↑ Chaumier, p. 123

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personal data
SURNAME Ferrier, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Thionne , Allier department
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1998