Richard Krawczyk

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Richard Krawczyk (born May 24, 1947 in Aix-Noulette , Pas-de-Calais department ) is a former French football player .

Club career

In Bully and Lens

Richard Krawczyk, who grew up in a family of former Polish immigrants in the northern French mining region, played as a child and adolescent in a community neighboring his place of birth with ES Bully-les-Mines . This " buddy club " was one of the preferred talent reservoirs from which the neighboring Racing Club Lens used to refresh its team of players, also known as the " Knappengalerie " (galerie des galibots) - and in 1963 it did so in the case of Krawczyk. Racing regularly fielded the 16-year-old in France's top division as early as the 1963/64 season . In the Red-Golden, Krawczyk, together with Georges Lech , who was only two years older, formed a pair of wing tongs that fed the two goal scorers Ahmed Oudjani and Jean Deloffre with templates. This season Lens finished third in the table.

In the following years at Lens, the “cunning, sly, and at the same time equipped with sturdy legs”, Krawczyk developed into a central player, who already impressed in his younger years not only with his dribbling , but above all with his overview of the game. In Division 1 , however, his red and gold could only place in the middle of the table until 1967. After all, Racing won the Coupe Charles Drago in 1965 , and Krawczyk contributed the last goal in the final of the competition to the 4-0 victory over the Girondins Bordeaux . That this would remain the only title in his career was not foreseeable at the time - after all, he was still only 17 years old. In the summer of 1968, however, after relegation games , Lens was relegated to the second division , and the offensive man, who had become a national team half a year earlier (see below) , who had played 144 point games for Lens in five years and scored 21 goals, switched to FC Metz .

In Metz and Reims

The Lorraine Richard Krawczyk played two seasons under coach Pierre Flamion , who him to offensive midfielder umschulte, and although he was able to complete an injury there only about two-thirds of duty games, he was especially for the striker Gerard Hausser a reliable template donors. For Metz he also played his first European cup match in the Messestädte-Cup 1969/70 against SSC Napoli ; In 1968/69 against Hamburger SV , however, he was not used. But there was nothing better than a third league place in 1969 with Metz. Therefore, in the summer of 1970, the club agreed to Krawczyk's move to the first division promoted Stade Reims , who wanted to build on his great successes of the 1950s and 1960s and whose new old president Henri Germain added a competitive team to some "corset rods" such as goalkeeper Jean-Claude D ' Arménia , René Masclaux , Alain Richard and Jean-François Jodar - even the almost 39-year-old club legend Raymond Kopa received another professional license - to which, in addition to Krawczyk, other newcomers such as Yves Herbet , Jean-Pierre Brucato and Milan Galić were signed up .

But although the red-whites from Champagne continued to strengthen themselves - until 1974, two of Krawczyk's Lenser team-mates, the brothers Bernard and Georges Lech, three Argentine goal scorers ( Delio Onnis , Carlos Bianchi and José Santiago Santamaría ) and for the came Defending their compatriot César-Auguste Laraignée and ex-national goalkeeper Marcel Aubour  - the sporting successes did not keep pace with the investments: Reims only occupied places in the middle of the table in the league until 1976. In return, Krawczyk made it to the semi-finals with Reims in the national cup in 1972 and 1974 . The midfielder was the heart of the Reims attack game or, as coach Pierre Flamion, who came to Stade in 1975, put it, "the central spark plug in the Elf's engine". When Richard Krawczyk, who had decided to play again in Lens , left the club in 1976 after 175 league games together with Georges Lech and Brucato, L'Équipe wrote of a "non-compensable loss" for Stade Reims.

Back to the north: Lens and Nœux

Krawczyk's return gave Racing Lens an enormous boost in performance; the team without prominent names ended the 1976/77 season as runner-up and qualified for the UEFA Cup of the following season . Strengthened by Didier Six , Didier Sénac and the young attacker Moncef Djebali , the gold-reds prevailed under their team captain Krawczyk against Malmö FF (4: 1, 0: 2) before they met Lazio in the second round . They lost the first leg with the Italians 2-0, but made up for this deficit at home with Stade Félix-Bollaert with two six goals; this was followed by a memorable extension on a "crazy evening", in which Six, Bousdira and two Djebali again made the final score of 6-0 for Lens between the 109th and 119th minutes. One lap later, however, Racing failed against 1. FC Magdeburg due to its weakness away from home (2: 0, 0: 4). In Division 1 , the team paid dearly for this international flight and rose as table-18. from. Richard Krawczyk went with the way to Division 2 , and although he was used there by the new coach Roger Lemerre only in ten games, he had a share in Racing's immediate promotion. However, he left the club together with the Polish striker Joachim Marx , and from 1979 the two played again for a neighboring, former miners' club, the second division newcomer US Nœux-les-Mines . For Nœux under his young trainer Gérard Houllier - born in 1947 like his most experienced player - Krawczyk played a total of 42 league games, and there he again scored half a dozen goals. When the USN failed as group runner-up in 1981 in the promotion games to the first division, he ended his career after 18 professional years with a total of 431 games along with 36 goalscoring in the first division and 52 games and six goals in the second division. Richard Krawczyk then ran Café Le Zébulon in Lens, not far from Racing's stadium , named after his own nickname.

Stations

  • Étoile Sportive Bully-les-Mines (as a teenager, until 1963)
  • Racing Club Lens (1963-1968)
  • FC Metz (1968–1970)
  • Stade Reims (1970-1976)
  • Racing Club Lens (1976–1979, including 1978/79 in D2)
  • Union Sportive Nœux-les-Mines (1979–1981, in D2)

As a national player

Richard Krawczyk only came to an A international match for France , which the Bleus won 3-1 in December 1967 against Luxembourg - it was a qualifier for the 1968 European Championship  - thanks to three Loubet goals. For the journalist Denis Chaumier, this vocation was "one that was not continued, but a fair reward for such a deserving footballer".

Palmarès

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
  • Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • Jacques Verhaeghe / Gilbert Hocq: Le football en Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1892–2007. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2007, ISBN 978-2-84910-681-5

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Fontaine, p. 153
  2. ^ Fontaine, p. 152
  3. ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 181
  4. ^ Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9 , p. 82
  5. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 179
  6. ^ A b Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-867-6 , p. 77
  7. ↑ see the data sheet for this final at footballdatabase.eu
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 273
  9. ↑ see the list of all players used this season at weltfussball.de
  10. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 146
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , pp. 388 and 390
  12. ↑ Quotations from Flamion and from L'Équipe in Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 167
  13. ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 220
  14. ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 223
  15. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 239f. and 242
  16. ↑ First division figures 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, n.d.; Second division numbers according to Krawczyk's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ).
personal data
SURNAME Krawczyk, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-Noulette , Pas-de-Calais department