Véronique Nowak

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Véronique Nowak (born February 28, 1967 in Lyon ) is a former French football player . During her playing days, she became three-time national champion and has also played internationally for France .

Club career

At the latest when she was 15, Véronique Nowak played football for FC Lyon . At 18, she was in the team that reached a final for the French women's championship for the first time in the club's history , which Lyon lost 2-0 to VGA Saint-Maur , the most successful team in the country in the 1980s. The right defender made her debut in the senior national team as early as this 1984/85 season (see below) . From 1990, under a new president, the FCL intensified its efforts to raise the level of the women's team by, among other things, expanding the training from one to three weekly units and hiring a staff to provide medical care for the players. Because of these provisions, with which Lyon took the lead in the French women's football, the FCL acquired (together with the Juvisy FCF ) for supremacy in France, which in 1991 in winning a first league title expressed as Nowak and her team-mates Saint-Maur - even if only after a penalty shootout  - defeated in the final.

When the national association FFF set up a first women's league , the Championnat National 1 A , for the 1992/93 season , she left Lyon and laced her soccer boots for the league competitor Toulouse Olympique Mirail . However, this remained a very short interlude, as she returned to the FCL in September 1992, where she and her long-time defense partner Marie-Christine Umdenstock once again formed the defensive support of the women. Then she won her second and two years later her third national championship title in 1993 - in keeping with Lyon's centenary club anniversary. In the season in between it was only enough for the runner-up. In the national cup competition , which was only introduced in France in 2001, she was unable to take part with FC Lyon because she ended her career in 1995. Reasons why she took this step at the age of 28 cannot be inferred from the available documents like the question of how Véronique Nowak shaped her life after her football days.

Stations

  • FC Lyon (1982-1992)
  • Olympique Mirail Toulouse (July to September 1992)
  • FC Lyon (1992–1995)

In the national team

In February 1985, a few days before her 18th birthday, Véronique Nowak made her debut in a friendly against Italy when she was substituted on 20 minutes before the final whistle in the French women's national team . Their coach Francis Coché then did not appoint them again. It took the defender a good three years before Coché's successor Aimé Mignot brought her back, with Nowak this time establishing herself as a regular player and playing another 37 A-internationals in the blue dress between March 1988 and May 1994. In this circle she even managed a hit; this was the 5-0 in the 7-1 victory against the Soviet Union in the spring of 1990.

During her appearances, she also faced the German women's selection three times , with France losing the game each time (1991 with 0: 2, 1992 with 0: 7 and 1993 with 0: 3). However , she never played against other opponents from German-speaking countries ( Austria , Switzerland , Luxembourg ). During her career, Véronique Nowak was also never able to present herself at a major continental tournament, because the French women regularly failed to qualify, both for the European Championship finals, which were then held every two years ( 1989 in the Federal Republic of Germany , 1991 in Denmark and 1993 in Italy ) and for the first official World Cup in 1991 in the People's Republic of China .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1991, 1993, 1995 (and runner-up 1985, 1994)
  • 38 full internationals, one goal for France

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 74
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 76
  3. ↑ see the game data sheet at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Nowak, Véronique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon