Robert Lamartine

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Robert Lamartine (born June 15, 1935 in Decize , Département Nièvre , † January 16, 1990 ) was a French football player .

Career

Mostly used as a striker , right-footed Robert Lamartine first played in the mid-1950s for the amateur team at Stade Reims , whose professionals had become French champions for the fourth time in six years in 1955 . In the 1955/56 season, coach Albert Batteux used him in three first division games and a cup game , with the youngster even scoring a goal; But the 20-year-old had no real chance of a regular place - the line-up of top-class players wearing the red and white dress of the team from Champagne was too large : with Penverne , Cicci and Siatka , two current and one future national team competed for the two outside runners places , and it was similar in attack, where the series Glovacki - Leblond - Kopa - Bliard - Templin was set and even a Michel Hidalgo only made 16 league appearances. Therefore Lamartine had to watch without exception the very first edition of the European Cup , where Reims was only stopped in the Real Madrid final . In the following season he didn't even play a single minute in Division 1 .

In 1957/58 he had stabilized his performance to such an extent that the coach always gave him his confidence when one of the regular players was out due to injury; That was the case in a good third of the league games (twelve appearances, three goals) and in several cup matches. Thus Lamartine also had a share in the championship title won by a large margin over Olympique Nîmes - and even more in the victory in the national cup competition, in the final of which he stormed the right winger in a 3-1 win against Nîmes.

In the 1958/59 season, he missed only six of the 38 league games and was one of the first eleven in the European Cup, with one exception, which were again in the final in June 1959 at the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart - and again against Real Madrid. In this, Robert Lamartine was just as unable to score a goal against the "royal" as his striker colleagues Bliard, Fontaine , Piantoni and Vincent , so that the season for the red-whites ended without another title win.

Because it was foreseeable that Lamartine would have a hard time keeping his regular place after the signing of Lucien Muller and Real comeback Raymond Kopa, he switched to league rivals Angers SCO immediately after the final from Stuttgart , for whom he played for three and a half years and in over 90 encounters scored 27 goals. A title win was out of the question for the West French: apart from a 7th place in 1960/61, the club was consistently only in the lower half of the table in the first division, and in the cup it only succeeded in 1961/62 with the semi-finals. At the turn of the year 1962/63 Angers gave Lamartine to SO Montpellier , which he left after relegation at the end of the season to play for Stade Rennes UC . The 1963/64 season was only average for the striker and his new club with an 11th place in the final ranking; The only thing worth mentioning is that the Bretons, with two wins against Stade Reims, made a significant contribution to pushing the club into the second division , where the ex-Reims had achieved his greatest successes.

It is not known which clubs Robert Lamartine played for from 1964 onwards - a first division team was no longer there - and what became of him after his time as a player is not known. He died in 1990 at the age of only 54.

Stations

  • Stade de Reims (1955-1959)
  • Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers (1959–1963)
  • Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1963)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1963/64)

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
personal data
SURNAME Lamartine, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Decize , Nièvre department
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1990