Roger Rio

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Roger Rio (born February 13, 1913 in Dunkerque , † April 23, 1999 ) was a French football player .

Club career

Roger Rio (right) in national dress next to Jean Nicolas (1934)

Roger Rio, who was set up as an inside striker or outside runner , played during his active time (from around 1931 to 1951) for a single club, the Football Club de Rouen 1899 . FC Rouen adopted a professional statute in 1933 and was one of the founding members of Division 2 ; Rio, however, remained an amateur throughout his career because he did not want to give up his job at Shell - nevertheless, he became a national player in 1933. The club initially remained in second place, although it narrowly missed promotion in 1934 and 1935 each. In the 1935/36 season, however, he caused a bang: as part of the "bombing storm" (French: attaque mitrailleuse ) around Jean Nicolas and Marceau Lhermine , the gaunt Roger Rio with his fine technique was both a preparer and a goal scorer to the 116 hits in 34 games with which the "Red Devils" shot their way from the second to the first division . There the Normans from Rouen then took 4th place in the final table twice; Two native Austrians contributed to this, Franz Hanreiter and Andreas Matthäus . The last pre-war season 1938/39, however, only finished 14th.

After the occupation and division of France, Division 1 was held in three or two groups, in the 1943/44 season even with regional selections (équipes fédérales) instead of club teams, and these "war championships" until 1945 are not considered official competitions and titles. This was bitter for FC Rouen, who finished second in the northern season in 1940 and 1945, from 1941 to 1943 (behind Red Star Olympique , Stade Reims and RC Lens ) and in a decider in 1945 the southern winners Lyon OU 4-0 conquered. The extent to which Roger Rio participated in these successes is not fully documented: from 1939/40 to 1941/42 he was in Rouen's team, albeit without a number of games, and in 1944/45 he played all 22 point games. He was also in the 1945 final against Lyon.
From 1945, after the liberation of the country, the club played in the now single-track league, from which it was relegated to the second division in 1947 and to which it did not return until Roger Rio's career ended, although he only just barely on 1949 and 1951 Ascent failed.

In the national cup , Rouen never made it to the final during Rio's active time; they failed in the semifinals in 1937 against Racing Strasbourg , and in 1940 they had to admit defeat to Racing Paris in a high-scoring game (4-8). The quarter-finals reached the Red Devils in 1932, 1934 (both times eliminated against RC Roubaix ), 1935 (against Stade Rennais UC ) and 1945 (against OGC Nice ).

In 1948, Roger Rio's wife gave birth to a son; Patrice later also became a national player - but as a professional.

National team

Between February 1933 and March 1937, Roger Rio was appointed to 18 full international matches in the Équipe tricolore . In this circle he also scored four goals, and in his penultimate game - February 1937 against Belgium - he ran as team captain of France. His first and last international match ended in a 4-0 defeat: 1933 in the Prinzenparkstadion against the “ wonder team ” and in 1937 in the Adolf Hitler arena against Germany . Against Austria, however, Rio was substituted in the 26th minute of the game due to injury; at this point it was still 0-0. He scored his first goal in the national jersey in his second game; it was the 1-0 lead against Germany in Berlin in March 1933 (final score: 3: 3). In 1934 he was in the French World Cup squad and played the only Bleus game in Italy in which Austria won 3-2 after extra time.

Palmarès

literature

  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Hardy Greens: Football World Cup 1934 Italy. AGON, Kassel 2002 ISBN 3-89784-198-3
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of death according to L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 377
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 257
  3. ↑ If Rio was also active in 1943/44, he would have to have played in the ÉF Rouen-Normandie , which was 12th of 16 teams in the exceptional single-track D1 and also only made it to the quarter-finals in the cup (Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 145 and 315).
  4. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 141-143 and 146; Complete statistics are also not available for the period up to 1939 and the first post-war seasons.
  5. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , pp. 175f.
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 46/47 (there with a photo in which Jean Nicolas passes across to Roger Rio in front of the Austrian penalty area) and 303
  7. ↑ Greens, p. 93, have a photo of the French team before this game, p. 57 of the game report.

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personal data
SURNAME Rio, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunkerque
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1999