Robert Budzynski

This article is about soccer player Robert Budzynski. For other people with similar names, see Budzinski .

Robert Budzynski (also Robert Budzinski ; born May 21, 1940 in Calonne-Ricouart / Département Pas-de-Calais ) is a former French football player and official .

Club career

Like so many descendants of Polish immigrants in the northern French mining region - for example, Maryan Wisnieski , who was also born in Calonne-Ricouart and was three years older , went through exactly the same stations - Budzynski began playing football at an early age, first in the team at his school in Béthune , then with the amateur team US Auchel and finally one of the big professional clubs in the region: In 1958, the RC Lens signed the angular, solid middle runner or pre-stopper with a good header game.

1963 it took the first time this season in the top flight ascended FC Nantes in Brittany , and this association remained Budzynski the next over 42 years two functions obtained, Nantes not to at this time a single time Division 2 was relegated. At the side of players like Ramón Muller , Jean-Claude Suaudeau , Bernard Blanchet , Jacky Simon and Philippe Gondet , he became an indispensable figure in his new club, with which he was twice national champion in 1965 and 1966 and also made it to the cup final in 1966 , which was then somewhat surprisingly lost with 0: 1 against Racing Strasbourg . A double fracture of his right leg in December 1968 meant that at the end of this season, having just turned 29, he had to end his playing career.

Stations as a player

• Union Sportive d'Auchel (1956–1958, as a teenager)
• Racing Club de Lens (1958-1963)
• FC Nantes (1963-1969)

National player

Between October 1965 and March 1967 Budzynski was appointed eleven times to the Équipe tricolore . At the football World Cup in 1966 , which was disappointing for France , he was not only part of the French squad , but he also played all three preliminary round matches in England. The highlight of his short international career, however, was an international match against the team from the homeland of his ancestors in October 1966, for which the national coaching duo Snella / Arribas , as in two other matches, determined him to be the team captain. This fine, sensitive gesture of the two club coaches, who only looked after the Bleus on an interim basis - the Polish-born Snella was actually on wages at AS Saint-Étienne , Arribas was head coach at Budzynski's FC Nantes - was much more important to the defense than the result of the Friendly game that ended 2-1 for France.

Life after the active time

1970 made Nantes' longtime president Louis Fonteneau ( 1969-1986 at the helm of the club) the defensive route to the club's sporting director; Budzynski worked quite successfully in this role for 35 years, until 1976 and again from 1983 in close cooperation with José Arribas, and in addition to countless young players from the club's Center de formation, he also brought over 200 players to the Loire estuary . It was not until October 2005 that he ended this task when he reached retirement age.

Palmarès

• French champion : twice as a player (1965, 1966), six times as sports director (1973, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1995, 2001)
• French cup winner : three times, only as sports director (1979, 1999, 2000)
• 243 games and 5 goals in Division 1 , of which 73/2 for Lens and 170/3 for Nantes
• 11 senior internationals (no hit) for France

Web links

• Association data sheet with photo of Budzynski (French)