Bruno Rodzik

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Bronislaw "Bruno" Rodzik (born May 29, 1935 in Giraumont , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , † April 12, 1998 in Thionville ) was a French football player .

The club career

The full-back was at Stade de Reims in the second half of the 1950s to a guarantee that the successful streak of the club continued well into the following decade. Uncompromising and objective, but technically well-versed and equipped with an offensive urge, he made a significant contribution, alongside Jonquet , Penverne and Wendling , to the enthusiastic attacking game of Fontaine , Piantoni , Vincent , Bliard and, from 1959, Lucien Muller and again Raymond Kopa, had solid defensive support . Similar to the young Karl-Heinz Schnellinger a few years later, Rodzik perfected hard but fair sliding tackling , i.e. blocking, spitting away or chasing off the ball by sliding sideways in the direction of the opponent carrying the ball.

His first appearances in Division 1 , France's top division, recorded the Lorraine in the 1957/58 season, at the end of which Reims had once again become national champions and cup winners ; Rodzik had only played five league games and was not in the winning team at the cup final. But in the following season he was instead of long-time right defender Simon Zimny ​​in the regular formation - especially in the European Cup, including the final, in which the Rémois failed again at Real Madrid (0-2 in June 1959).

During his time in Reims, he won two more national championship titles in 1960 and 1962, became a national player and played a total of 17 European Cup games (Bruno Rodzik also scored two goals in the process) - but he was not spared one of the bitterest experiences the club had at the end of an unprecedented run Successful streak (from 1945 to 1963 only in a single year worse than 4th place in Division 1 ) had to make: In 1964, the runner-up from 1963 rose to the bottom of the table in the second division, where the club had to set up until 1970 with a one-year break. Rodzik then moved with Piantoni to OGC Nice , who had also been relegated and which the two helped to get back up immediately. The defender was followed by three more years in the top league on the Côte d'Azur , in the end crowned by a runner-up.

Stations

  • AS Giraumont (until 1957)
  • Stade de Reims (1957–1964)
  • OGC Nice (1964–1968)

The national player

Between March 1960 and November 1963, Bruno Rodzik played a total of 21 times in the Équipe Tricolore . He was also in the semi-finals and final at the finals of the very first European championship for national teams , which was so unsuccessful for France in front of its own audience - just as Les Bleus went through a long-lasting performance trough in the years after third place at the 1958 World Cup and did not either qualified for the 1962 World Cup . Rodzik's last international match was symptomatic of this, when France gave up a 2-0 break even against Switzerland in the Prinzenpark in Paris .

Palmarès

personal data
SURNAME Rodzik, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodzik, Bronislaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Giraumont , Meurthe-et-Moselle department
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1998
Place of death Thionville