Robert Siatka

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Robert Siatka (born June 20, 1934 in Le Martinet , Gard ) is a former French football player of Polish descent.

The club career

At the beginning of the 1953/54 season, Robert Siatka came to Stade de Reims from the underclass Alès Olympique at the age of 19 , which a few weeks earlier had cost both triumph and sadness: winning the second French championship and then the Coupe Latine was the horrific one Accidental death of the young Francis Méano followed. This situation did not make it easier for the newcomer, who grew up in a mountain village in the southern Cevennes , to settle in a sporty and atmospherically unfamiliar environment, so that he was only used sporadically in his first season in Division 1 . In 1954, however, Roger Marche, a veteran from Reims, left the club, and coach Batteux appointed Siatka as his successor in the left defensive position - and a year later the still young player won his first championship title.

The following year things didn't go quite so "smoothly" for him: he only played half of the season's games because he was not regularly available due to his military service and he was only three vacant places with Raymond Cicci , Raoul Giraudo and Simon Zimny the defensive had to fight (the "Reims memorial" Robert Jonquet and Penverne were set by coach Batteux). But in the end it was Siatka who got one of these places in the most important game of the season for the Rémois : due to an injury of Cicci, he was in the final of the very first edition of the European Cup . Stade de Reims lost 4: 3 to Real Madrid on June 13, 1956 , but for the 21-year-old it was a high point in his career, anything but poor.

Finally prevail at Stade - and then for the next six years - could Robert Siatka that in Argentina with the French selection 1957 Military World Champion had become, in the season 1957/58, at the end he again national champion, to the first time Cup winner was . In doing so, he benefited from perseverance (the nickname "le cheval [dt." The horse "]) and versatility: usually on the left (as a defender or outside runner ) at home, he took over after Penverne's departure (1959 ) without any problems his right runner position, replaced Jonquet as middle runner from 1960 , cleared this place for Kaelbel in 1962 and played on the right side again - and did the respective tasks very reliably. However, when Reims was in the European Cup final for the second time in 1959 , an injury prevented his For this he won two further French championship titles in 1960 and 1962.

In 1963 Albert Batteux left the Red-Whites after a last runner-up in Division 1 - and the new coach, Camille Cottin, only used Siatka in two league games. At the end of the 1963/64 season, Reims was relegated to the second division and the man from Languedoc switched from the French "flagship" of the 1950s to that of the 1960s : less than 12 months later, le cheval won his fifth championship title with FC Nantes then ended his successful career.

Stations

  • Alès Olympique (until 1953)
  • Stade de Reims (1953–1964)
  • FC Nantes (1964/65)

The national player

In July 1960 Robert Siatka played his only international match for the Équipe Tricolore (0-2 against the CSSR in the game for third place at the first European championship ).

Life after time as a player

Siatka later worked as a coach at lower-class clubs ( Olympique Avignon 1968–1970, FC Bourges 1970–1972 and 1973/74). He belongs to the alumni association of Stade Reims and the end of May 2012 at the Stade Auguste Delaune - along with his former teammates Piantoni , Fontaine , Colonna and Muller  as guest of honor - National Association carried the symbolic impetus to an international match of the senior team.

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. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 275
  2. ↑ see the article from May 31, 2012 on the association's website
personal data
SURNAME Siatka, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Martinet , Gard department