Yvon Douis

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Yvon Douis (1966)

Yvon Douis (born May 16, 1935 in Les Andelys / Département Eure , † January 29, 2021 ) was a French football player .

The club career

Yvon Douis, who was born southeast of Rouen , was signed by Lille OSC at the age of 18 and immediately made his way into the league . The half right did not correspond at all to the ideal of northern French football, in which in those years - albeit at a high level - the ball was “worked”, liberating strokes instead of dribbling and fighting strength distinguished the teams. Douis, on the other hand, was a filigree technician and a dangerous goalscorer too. At the end of his first season in 1953/54 he was able to win the French championship straight awaycelebrate, and just a year later he was also the French Cup winner for the first time . Even more, in this final at the side of André Strappe , Marceau Somerlinck and Jean Vincent , the Norman , who is not yet 20 years old, scored two early goals in a 5-2 win over the Girondins Bordeaux .

Then, however, setbacks slowed the steep rise: Douis had to do his military service, lost his form in phases and relegated to Division 2 only 12 months after the cup triumph with Lille . It wasn't until 1957 that things started to improve again, in every respect; The club succeeded in returning to the House of Lords immediately, Douis himself was world champion with the national military team and also appointed to the national team for the first time at the end of 1957 - just in time to be one of the 22 players that national coach Albert Batteux took with him to the World Cup .

In the summer of 1959, when Lille Olympique had to relegate to D2 again, Yvon Douis moved to his region of origin to Le Havre AC , who had surprisingly won the cup a few weeks earlier, and stayed there until 1961. In his second year at le HAC , he was 17 Season hits even on the 8th place on the top scorer list. Then AS Monaco , the newly crowned title holder, lured him to the Côte d'Azur - and this region was to become his second home in the long term. With Monaco's team, who was increasingly used in midfield , he succeeded in 1963 within a few weeks around his 28th birthday around the second win of the cup (in the replay) and the championship and he also won the doublé . At the end of this year there was another personal highlight: The trade journal France Football selected Yvon Douis as France Footballer of the Year at the very first award of this award .

In 1964 he was runner-up again, but then the great years of FC Nantes and AS Saint-Étienne followed , and the Monegasque were denied further titles. In 1967 Yvon Douis moved to the second division for AS Cannes , where he ended his playing career after two years.

Player stations

  • Lille Olympique SC (1953–1959, including 1956/57 in D2)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1959–1961)
  • Association Sportive Monaco (1961–1967)
  • Association Sportive Cannes (1967–1969, in D2)

The national player

Yvon Douis played 20 international matches for the Équipe tricolore between November 1957 and September 1965 (8 during his time at Lille, 4 at Le Havre, 8 at Monaco) and scored four goals. In 1963 he was also their team captain in three matches. At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden he was part of the French squad , but was only considered in the game for third place against West Germany because Roger Piantoni was not fit. In this encounter (final score: 6: 3) Douis at least managed to score 4: 1. He also took part in the finals of the first European Championship in 1960 and was also used here in the game for third place (0: 2 against the CSSR ).

Life after the active time

At the end of his playing career, Yvon Douis opened a sporting goods store in Nice , very close to the Stade du Ray . From 1971 he trained for a year at OGC Nice , which at that time only played third-rate. From 1973 to 1990 he worked in a managerial position for the sportswear manufacturer Le Coq Sportif or - after this was taken over by Adidas - for the Herzogenaurach-based company and then retired at the age of 55. He died in late January 2021 at the age of 85.

Palmarès

Remarks

  1. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 275
  2. ^ Obituary for Yvon Douis
personal data
SURNAME Douis, Yvon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Les Andelys , Eure department
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2021