René Le Lamer

René Le Lamer (born April 7, 1948 in Étel ) is a former French football player and coach .

Player career

The 173 centimeter tall defender Le Lamer was 17 years old when he was accepted into the reserve team of professional club FC Nantes in 1965 . In 1966 he managed to move up to the top division team at the club that had become French champions that same year. At a time when substitutions and substitutions were not yet possible, he came to 13 games in the top national league during his first year and finished second with the team. In 1967 he was awarded to the second division club RC Joinville , where he was undisputedly put on the defensive. After returning to Nantes in 1968, he spent another season with regular appearances with the West French, but could not finally fight for a regular place.

The player moved to first division rivals AC Ajaccio on the island of Corsica in 1969 at the age of 21 . With this he was set for the following years, even if he had to assert himself with the team in the relegation battle. After the fall in the second division could be averted in 1970, the team rose in 1973 from bottom of the table. In view of this, Le Lamer decided to leave the club after four years. With the Corsicans he was remembered by 141 first division games as Ajaccio's record player in the top division. It was with the Troyes AF a club that had been promoted to the first division, which took him under contract in 1973. From then on, he and the team saved himself from relegation every year before it could no longer be prevented in 1978. Because he had been a regular player the entire time and played 177 games in the league, he also became the club's record first division player at Troyes.

As in Ajaccio, he turned his back on Troyes after relegation in 1978 and signed with SCO Angers, which still belonged to the first division, and got a permanent place in the defense. As almost always in his career, he had to fight against relegation with this one, but passed this fight both times successfully. In 1980 he ended his active career at the age of 32 after 418 first division games and 30 second division games, each without scoring. He was never considered for the French national team .

Coaching career

With the fourth division US Concarneau it was a club from his home region of Brittany , where Le Lamer began his coaching career in 1980. At times he was also on the pitch for this player. In 1983 he moved to the Lorraine third division club CO Saint-Dizier , where he also served as coach. In 1985 he then took over CS Louhans-Cuiseaux, who was also in third class, and led them to promotion to second class a year later. He remained loyal to the club in the long term and was able to keep it in the second division for years before the division, which had previously been played in two groups, was combined into one group in 1993 and therefore the twelfth place out of eighteen meant relegation. In 1994 he turned his back on Louhans-Cuiseaux after nine years and found a new employer in third division rivals FC Istres .

After decades in club football, Le Lamer said goodbye in 1997 to take over the coaching position in the regional selection of Brittany . In 1998 he gave this up again and went to fourth division Clermont Foot , which he brought to the third division in 1999. In 2000 he was signed by the second division club FC Gueugnon , but only stayed there for one year as a coach. This was followed by a period outside of football before returning to the FC Istres bench in December 2006. Although he could not save this 2007 from relegation to the third division, he kept his coaching post until 2008. This year it was the third-class FC Gueugnon, who took him under contract again. There he discovered, among other things, the talent Romain Alessandrini , who made his way into the first division and was in the national team in 2012. In addition, there was an extremely unusual situation, as he had a player in the team with Tony Vairelles who owned the majority of the shares in the club and was thus effectively his superior. In 2010, at the age of 62, he finally ended his football career and moved to the Alpilles to retire and grow olives .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football: René Le Lamer , footballdatabase.eu
2. ↑ René Le Lamer - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
3. ↑ René Le Lamer ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 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. , sco1919.com 
4. ↑ Les souvenirs de Le Lamer , lejsl.com