Xercès Louis

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Xercès Louis (born October 31, 1926 in Sainte-Marie on Martinique , † 1978 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

In the club

The young Xercès Louis was discovered for football in the French colonial area in North Africa , where he had emigrated as a child. The Lyon OU club brought him to mainland France in the early 1940s . Whether the most on the outer or center half position playing Creole in the season 1945/46, the first official championship season after war and occupation, the club at the end in the Division 2 relegation to Erstligaeinsätzen came, is not observed. But he stayed with LOU until 1949; then he signed a professional contract with Racing Lens .

With the northern French, Louis developed his qualities, which included in particular maneuverability, header and shot strength; In addition, he was considered elegant and technically strong and could be used left and right. Even though Racing was at best in the upper midfield in the final tables of Division 1 until 1954 , the player already drew the national coach's attention to himself (see below ) . In the following three years a top team developed in Lens, whose faces, along with Xercès Louis, were shaped by Maryan Wisnieski , the Swede Egon Jönsson , Michel Stievenard , Erich Habitzl and Jean Templin : in 1954/55 they finished third, in the two subsequent seasons even Runner-up, 1955/56 just one point behind OGC Nice .

Nevertheless, after eight years (1957) Louis swapped the north for the milder southwest, where second division Girondins Bordeaux secured its services. In 1959 the Girondins were promoted to the upper house of football, but the eleven had to leave again in 1960 - when they were bottom of the table. The 33-year-old then ended his professional career.

Stations

  • Lyon Olympique Universitaire (until 1949; only 1945/46 in D1)
  • Racing Club de Lens (1949–1957)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1957–1960; only 1959/60 in D1)

In the national team

Between October 1954 and November 1956, Xercès Louis played 12 international matches (no goal) with the Équipe tricolore , eight of them in a team with the "big Kopa ". He was already part of the French squad at the 1954 World Cup , but was not used in Switzerland. His debut followed immediately afterwards, namely in the 3-1 victory of Bleus against the newly crowned world champion West Germany in Hanover . His last international match is also one of the great moments of the French national team: in the 1958 World Cup qualification , they defeated “feared opponents” Belgium 6-3.

Louis' luck was that coach Batteux from the end of 1956 for the positions on which the versatile Lensois , had had previously played other human conceptions: in defense were with him Kaelbel and captain Marche , in the rotor series Penverne , Jonquet and Marcel set .

Life after time as a player

Xercès Louis then worked as a coach, including at the amateur clubs UMS Montélimar and SO Mazamet in the south of France. What happened to him after that is not known, not even the exact date and place of his death in 1978. At least a monument was posthumously erected in Lens : the opposite stand of the Stade Félix-Bollaert , where the most loyal fans of the Racing Club are have their place today bears his name.

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 89, Louis saw the light of day on October 30th
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 201; There is no more literature about Louis' early years than about his last.
  3. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 89; Chaumier, p. 201
  4. ↑ cf. L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , in particular pp. 316-319
  5. ↑ First division appearances (from 1948) according to 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 o. J.

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personal data
SURNAME Louis, Xercès
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Marie , Martinique
DATE OF DEATH 1978