Roger Vandooren

Roger Vandooren (born April 27, 1923 in Choisy-le-Roi , Val-de-Marne department , † March 31, 1998 in Carpentras ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

Roger Vandooren, an extensive relative of footballer Jules Vandooren , who was mostly in the middle of the storm , often also on the right winger or half right , was fast, dangerous for goals, but not always consistent in his performance. The cake lover was known as the “brother of light feet”. In Lille he worked in a locomotive factory after the war so as not to have to go to Germany as an occupation soldier. For a fee, he played for the first time in the 1943/44 season, when regional selection teams had to compete in France instead of club teams, for the Équipe Fédérale Paris-Île-de-France . After that year he moved to Lille Olympique SC , and there he had his most successful time in the following six years with a championship title in Division 1 and three cup wins ; In 1946 he also won the doublé . He also became a national player (see below) . The Lille team of those years in which Vandooren with numerous variables such as Julien Darui , Jean Baratte , René Bihel , François Bourbotte , Marceau Somerlinck , Joseph Jadrejak , Jacques Grimonpon , Jean Lechantre , Boleslaw Tempowski , André Strappe and Cor van der Hart played together heard to this day one of the legendary club teams of French football.

With the LOSC, Vandooren even made it to the French Cup final five times in a row; however, he lost the first (0: 3 in 1945) and the last (5: 2 in 1949), both times against Racing Paris . In the three finals in between, the striker scored four goals: in 1946 to 3-1 and 4-2 against Red Star (final score 4-2), in 1947 to 1-0 in a 2-0 win against Racing Strasbourg and in 1948 to 1-0 against the Big Northern rivals Racing Lens (final score 3: 2). His opening goal against Strasbourg after 29 seconds of play is the fastest in the 90-year history of the competition, and together with Jules Dewaquez and Emmanuel Aznar , Vandooren also leads the statistics of the most successful final goal scorers. After the 1947 final, he caused a bit of a scandal when, instead of taking part in the team celebration, he preferred to move around the corners of Paris with some childhood friends . He was only able to avoid a club penalty because the rest of the Liller squad had also made themselves unpopular with the autocratic President Louis Henno (often mocked as "Louis XIX." ) By refusing to sing along with the club song Henno sang at the banquet .

From 1950 he developed into a veritable "wanderer", which with one exception always stayed with his respective club for only one year: that was true for CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , AS Monaco Olympique Marseille , Le Havre AC and Red Star. Only at Stade Français in his home region did he stay two seasons, one of which was in the second division . He is also said to have played at OGC Nice and SCO Angers ; However, it is not clear from the available sources when that could have been. What all these stations had in common was that he was only moderately successful there: he didn't get past ninth place in the final table of Division 1 with any of his clubs, he played several times in the second division and in the cup competition was at each of these clubs at the latest in Quarterfinals end. However, this had not harmed his income, as is very precisely demonstrated in Vandooren's case. In his sporting most successful time (1949 at Lille OSC) he earned about six times as much as a skilled worker; he was able to negotiate higher salaries every time he changed clubs, and he seems to have been very successful in doing so, making use of the football association 's maximum income system at the time . In Monaco, for example, there were particularly high winners' bonuses, while in Marseille there was a particularly high fixed salary that was a third above his total income in Lille. Such an expensive player and at the same time lacking sporting success meant that the club presidents did not generally hesitate to give Roger Vandooren the necessary clearance at the end of the season.

Following his active career, he settled permanently in the Vaucluse department , where he trained for many years at Olympique Avignonais - initially as a player- coach  - and together with his wife first ran a bar tobacco shop, then ran a shop. He died there in March 1998, shortly before his 75th birthday.

Stations

• SC Choisy-le-Roi
• Équipe Fédérale Paris-Île-de-France (1943/44)
• Lille Olympique SC (1944–1950)
• Club Olympique Roubaix-Tourcoing (1950/51)
• Stade Français Paris (1951–1953, including 1951/52 in D2)
• Association Sportive de Monaco (1953/54)
• Olympique de Marseille (1954/55)
• Le Havre Athletic Club (1955/56, in D2)
• Red Star Olympique Audonies (1956/57, in D2)
• (not secured) Sporting Club de l'Ouest Angers
• (not secured) Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice
• Olympique Avignonais (as a long-time player coach or coach)

In the national team

Roger Vandooren was B and four times also A national player in the French national team . His first international match in June 1949 ended with a 4-2 draw against Switzerland . He was then used in both qualifying games for the 1950 World Cup against Yugoslavia , but not in the decider against the eleven from the Balkans, which was then lost 2: 3 afterwards. Not until February 1951 was he called up again - for the third time against the Yugoslavs, this time in a friendly game - but despite the 2-1 victory, this was his last appearance in the blue national jersey. He hadn't managed to hit one in this circle.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1946 (and runner-up in 1948, 1949, 1950)
• French cup winner: 1946, 1947, 1948 (and finalist 1945, 1949)
• 4 full international matches (no hit) for France, three of them during his time with Lille and one with Roubaix-Tourcoing
• At least 202 games and 46 goals in Division 1 , of which at least 104/23 for Lille, 25/6 for Roubaix-Tourcoing, 31/12 for Stade Français, 16/2 for Monaco, 26/3 for Marseille

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
• Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
• Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
• Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5
• Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Remarks

1. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 137; Chaumier, p. 303
2. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 102
3. ↑ Cornu, p. 82ff .; L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 32-37.
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 362–364 and 430
5. ↑ Cornu, p. 86
6. ^ At both clubs according to François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , p. 283, and Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 137, in Angers also according to Pécheral, p. 445.
7. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 379 and 445
8. ↑ Detailed information on the composition of Vandooren's respective income in Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 140–142.
9. ↑ Pécheral, p. 445; Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 154; Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 137
10. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 311/312; Chaumier, p. 303
11. ↑ Figures up to 1948 from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 147–149, from 1948 after Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault, n.d.; for 1946/47 all figures are missing, for 1945/46 and 1947/48 Vandoorens hits.

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the website of the French Association