René Gardien

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René Gardien (born February 10, 1928 in Chambéry , † February 1, 2006 in Thiers ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

In his clubs

René Gardien came soon after the end of the war from his Savoyard homeland, where he had played in the youth teams of the SO Chambéry , to the then second division FC Sochaux . The 18-year-old was there in his first season in 1946/47 with two legends of French football from the interwar period, defender Étienne Mattler and goalscorer Roger Courtois , but soon grew into the team of the "Werkself von Peugeot ". At the end of this season, Sochaux rose as champions in the highest French league , where Gardien quickly made a name for himself as a “passionate, agile and agile” right winger who “didn't give his opponents a break”. In the following five years, the team finished each in a place in the upper middle of the table and was continuously reinforced, so by Josef Humpál , Jean-Jacques Marcel and Alberto Muro . In the 1952/53 season , the "young lions" -  Lionceaux is the most common nickname for the club's players into the 21st century - surprisingly even managed to make it runner-up behind Stade Reims ; the two-footed winger René Gardien had made a significant contribution to this with 17 goals, reached sixth place among the best attackers in Division 1 and became a national player in the spring of 1953 (see below) . He also won the Coupe Charles Drago with his team this season .

Although FC Sochaux continued to strengthen itself afterwards with good players - Gardien played alongside François Remetter , Ginès Liron , Yngve Brodd , Julien Stopyra and Samuel Edimo from the mid-1950s  - the club never reached it again until 1959 as good a league placement as in 1953. Gardien at least had another 17 goals this season in 1956/57 and he ended this season in eighth place among the best goalscorers. Two years later, the Lionceaux reached the French Cup final , and given the fact that they met second division Le Havre AC in it , Sochaux counted on good chances. In fact, the game went into overtime, in which René Gardien brought his team 2-1 ahead, but the opponent was still able to equalize. In the subsequent replay, the outsider then dominated and Sochaux ultimately had no chance or title.

Immediately afterwards Gardien left the club, which he had been loyal to for 13 years. He wore the Lille OSC for one year and that of the RCFC Besançon from 1960 to 1962 ; both were playing in Division 2 at the time , and neither of them did the attacker come anywhere near a place in the table that would qualify for promotion. With Besançon he managed to win the Coupe Charles Drago a second time in 1962, when the eleven got the upper hand in the final against the national cup winners of 1959, Le Havre AC. René Gardien then ended his playing career in which he had played a total of more than 340 matches with 122 goals in the first and 99 games (32 hits) in the second division.

Stations

  • until 1946 Stade Olympique Chambéry (as a youth)
  • 1946–1959 FC Sochaux (1946/47 in D2)
  • 1959/60 Lille OSC (in D2)
  • 1960–1962 Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besançon (in D2)

In the national team

During his most successful season 1952/53 René Gardien also came to international assignments. The first of these was the so-called Watersnoodwedstrijd in March 1953 , a charity match between the French national team at Parc des Princes in Paris against a selection of Dutch foreign professionals, the proceeds of which went to the victims of the 1953 flood disaster . Subsequently, the selection committee of the FFF federation under the Sélectionneurs Gaston Barreau and Paul Nicolas also appointed him for two official international matches. In the first in May against Wales , the newcomer immediately scored two goals in a 6-1 win, so that four weeks later he was also taken into account against Sweden (0-1 in the Råsunda stadium in Solna ). Unlike in the club, he was placed on the left wing in all three games. However, this was his last appearance in the blue dress, and the following year he was not even part of the French squad for the World Cup in Switzerland .

Coaching career

Shortly after the end of his playing career, René Gardien settled in Thiers ; there he trained the local amateur league team SA Thiers . In 1969 he accepted an offer from second division FC Grenoble , and just a year later he was on the sidelines at their league rivals OSC Lille. In 1971, he led the northern French back to the top division, which, however, promptly relegated from it in 1972. When he did not succeed in the following season to manage the immediate resurgence, the club dismissed him in 1973. From 1974 he worked for the EDS Montluçon , with which he was represented from 1978 to 1982 in the second division and which he in 1983, after nine years ago, left. His last engagement led Gardien after a long break in 1988 to FC Clermont-Ferrand , with whom he also relegated from Division 2 in 1989 when the club had to file for bankruptcy. He still worked there for another year under amateur conditions and then finally retired in the region .

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1953
  • Finalist in the national cup: 1959
  • Coupe Charles Drago winner: 1953, 1962
  • French second division champions: 1947 (as a player), 1971 (as a coach)
  • 2 international caps, 2 hits

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

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see Sochaux's list of players for the 1946/47 season at footballdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 134
  3. ↑ all goalscoring statistics, also for the other seasons, from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 146-157
  4. ↑ Data sheet of the final at footballdatabase.eu
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 126f. and 375
  6. Jump up ↑ First division hits according to “The great scorers of the French championship. They only had one goal. ” In France Football of January 4, 2011, p. 21, according to 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., 340/115 from 1948. The second division numbers come from Gardien's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ).
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 314
  8. ↑ The duration of his respective engagement was partially supplemented by his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ).
personal data
SURNAME Gardien, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chambery
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2006
Place of death Thiers