Robert Jonquet

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Robert Jonquet in 1949

Robert Jonquet (born May 3, 1925 in Paris , † December 18, 2008 in Reims ) was a French football player and coach .

The club career

1942-1956

The son of a hairdresser played in his youth in Châtenay-Malabry in the south of Paris , then for the Société Sportive Voltaire de Paris . In 1942, in the middle of the Second World War, he came to Stade de Reims , where he made his first appearances in the men's eleven at the age of 17. From 1945 he joined the official division 1 championship , soon became part of the regular formation and was called up to the national team for the first time in the spring of 1947 . The 1.76 m tall and rather slender middle runner filled his playing position with elegance and technique, was not so much the central destroyer, which at that time corresponded to the typical image of the player with the shirt number 5. If the role of Libero had already existed, it would have been tailored to Jonquet's body.

In the 1948/49 season he won the French championship for the first time , the French Cup in 1950 , his second championship title in 1953 and the Coupe Latine . In the following year he took part in his first World Cup finals in Switzerland with Les Bleus , in 1955 he was again national champion, winner of the French Supercup for the first time, was a finalist in the Coupe Latine and reached the final in the newly created European Cup of National Champions with Stade Reims , the In 1956 they lost 3: 4 against Real Madrid . Two further highlights of these years also took place on the international stage: in October 1951 France defied the English team (with Alf Ramsey and Billy Wright ) in London, 2-2 thanks to an outstanding Robert Jonquet, to whom the newspaper headline " The Hero of Highbury ”. And in 1955 this hero was part of the European selection that England was able to defeat; Such selection games had only friendship character, but were football holidays and paydays until the 1960s.

Central player in one of the best teams in Europe

The list of Robert Jonquet's team-mates at Reims reads like a who's who of French football in the 1950s: between goalkeeper ( Paul Sinibaldi , then Dominique Colonna ) and top-class attackers ( Raymond Kopa , Michel Hidalgo , Léon Glovacki , Jean Vincent , Just Fontaine , Roger Piantoni , René Bliard ) were sure defensive players such as Roger Marche , Armand Penverne , Albert Batteux , Michel Leblond , Jean Wendling - and just over a decade also "Bob" Jonquet, who was also the only player in all four finals on the field, which his club competed in European competitions. Albert Batteux accompanied and supported Jonquet's career in three ways: as a teammate (until 1950), as a club coach (1950–1959) and as a coach of the national team (from 1955).

1957-1961

The 1957/58 season held other titles ready for Jonquet, but also his darkest hour. With Reims he won the French championship and cup double, and was again his country's Supercup winner. He also took part in his second soccer World Cup, which ended with France's best performance at a World Cup: Les Bleus finished third in Sweden . However, his mishap in the semifinals (see below) prevented Jonquet's participation in the game for third place (6: 3 against Germany ).

After the second European Cup final against Real Madrid (1959, 2-0), the great Raymond Kopa returned from the Madrilenians to the Rémois - and Jonquet promptly won his fifth French championship and the third Supercup in 1960. That summer, the now 35-year-old ended his career in the national team and moved to Racing Strasbourg in the second division, which made it to Division 1 with him in 1961 ; that was his last success as a player.

The national player

Between April 1948 and July 1960 Robert Jonquet played a total of 58 times in the Equipe Tricolore and was also their team captain in nine international matches. He was also used in an unofficial international match, the Watersnoodwedstrijd against Dutch professional footballers on March 12, 1953. He participated in the World Championship finals in 1954 (one use) and 1958 (five uses) . In Sweden he clashed with their center forward Vavá after 30 minutes in the semi-finals against Brazil, after which he could barely move, but clenched his teeth. In the half-time break - substitutions were not allowed at the time - the team doctor injected him with an analgesic injection and Jonquet stood around more or less uselessly on the right wing in the second half. At the end of the game it turned out that he had broken his shin. A good four months later he was back in the national team.

He gave his international farewell at the final round of the European Football Championship in 1960, which was disappointing for France, in the game for third place (0-2 in the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille against the CSSR ).

Living after time as an active person

Robert Jonquet moved from the field to the coaching bench - initially as a player- coach - at the Stade de la Meinau  in Strasbourg (1961 to 1964), then also at Stade Reims (1964 to April 1967), with whom he returned to the first division in 1966, a few weeks before But the end of the season was dismissed. He then coached a small suburban club and again Stade Reims in the 1980/81 season. Professionally, he sold items for champagne production ; Reims has also remained the center of his life in private life. With today's football and the sums paid in it Jonquet can no longer make friends. For health reasons he was unable to attend the inauguration of a grandstand named after him in the new Reims Stade Auguste-Delaune at the end of February 2008. "Bob" died shortly before Christmas 2008 in Reims.

An overview of Jonquet's career

Stations

  • SS Voltaire Paris
  • Stade de Reims (1942–1960, 502 appearances in the D1 since 1945)
  • Racing Club Strasbourg (1960–1962, including 1960/61 in D2)
  • Trainer at RC Strasbourg
  • Trainer at Stade de Reims

Palmarès

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Remarks

  1. ↑ from an interview in the Humanité , online at http://www.humanite.fr/journal/1996-11-20/1996-11-20-765582
  2. ↑ Article from L'Union of February 29, 2008, online at http://ancienstadedereims.free.fr/fichiers_htm/Inauguration.htm ( Memento of April 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.stade-de-reims.com/news/index.php?post=20190716-Monsieur-Robert-Jonquet-est-decede

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personal data
SURNAME Jonquet, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2008
Place of death Reims