Yvon Goujon

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Yvon Goujon (born January 21, 1937 in Lorient ) is a former French football player and coach .

Club career

The center forward , who comes from a football-loving Breton family (national players Antoine Cuissard , Julien and Yannick Stopyra are close relatives of Goujons), came to AS Saint-Étienne at the age of 17 ; there, their coach Jean Snella carefully built him into a first division team , in which with Claude Abbes , Rachid Mekhloufi , Eugène Njo-Léa and Kees Rijversseveral "greats" of French football of the 1950s stood. In the 1956/57 season he made his first career leap, when he became world champion with the French military selection during his army service and contributed to winning the championship with 10 hits ; even in the not so successful year after that, Yvon Goujon scored 13 goals for the Verts . He was the type of the "beefy ripper in the middle of the storm", with a strong header and a hard shot.

In the 1959/60 season he was still loaned to FC Sochaux , but had to relegate the team to Division 2 . After the European football championship in 1960 , which was disappointing for France , he was called up as a second division player in the French national team and celebrated a successful debut there, so that he was already described as the “legitimate successor to Kopa ”. He then moved to the first division club FC Limoges during the winter break  - and could not prevent relegation with this club either, so he moved on again in 1961, this time to his native Brittany to Stade Rennes . This instability, based on a certain gullibility, was not exactly conducive to his performance or his career; in Rennes, however, he stabilized and scored ten league goals for the black and red in the following two seasons. Nevertheless, he left this club after only two years and then wore the jersey of FC Rouen , whose coach was Max Schirschin , for three years . Titles could not be won with the Normans ; In 1965 the "red devils" even had to go to the barrages to keep the class.

1966 took second division side AS Angoulême the only 29-year-old Goujon, and coach Jacques Favre made him equal to the captain . The team clearly missed promotion in the following two years, but in the national cup they played an excellent role, reaching the semi-finals twice and failing in each of them remarkably close. In 1967 it took three games against Olympique Lyon , all of which were tied after extra time (3: 3 and 1: 1 twice, in the third game with a goal from Yvon Goujon), but then he chose the wrong side before the decisive coin toss . At the Stade Vélodrome , there was initially great confusion: because only players from Angoulême returned to the field, many spectators believed that the underdog had qualified for the final; individual newspapers, hastily informed about it by telephone, even published this in their editions of the next day. A year later, Angoulême almost spoiled AS Saint-Étienne's doublé ; after a 1-1 draw, Goujon's former club ASSE only managed to prevail 2-1 in the replay and shortly thereafter also won the cup in addition to the championship.

From 1970 to 1972, the former attacker then trained the second division FC Limoges , then AS Angoulême. What later became of him cannot yet be determined.

Stations

  • AS Saint-Étienne (1954 – late 1959), 84 points games / 24 goals
  • FC Sochaux (1960), 26/6 (only the games in D1)
  • Limoges FC (1960/61), 22/7
  • Stade Rennais (1961–1963), 59/20
  • FC Rouen (1963-1966), 88/22
  • AS Angoulême (1966–1968, in D2; then as coach until 1970)
  • FC Limoges (1970–1972, as coach in D2)
  • AS Angoulême (1972 – November 1973, as coach in D2)

National player

Yvon Goujon played eleven full international matches for the Équipe tricolore between September 1960 and December 1963 and scored six goals in this circle. In his second international match (2: 6 against Switzerland ) he scored both French goals, hit the post or crossbar of the opposing body five times, but then suffered a drop in performance due to his club change, so that he was not back in the shirt until a year and a half later the Bleus was allowed to run. In the following years he was among other things in the 2: 2 against West Germany (October 24, 1962 in Stuttgart ) and scored the 2-0 lead with a header ; however, a year later, when Nestor Combin took his place on the national team, his international career ended, which did not deliver what it had initially promised.

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1957
  • French cup winner : Nothing, but semi-finalist in 1967 and 1968
  • 279 games in Division 1 , 79 goals
  • eleven full internationals with six goals for France, two of them during his time at Sochaux, six at Rennes and three at Rouen
  • Military World Champion with France: 1957

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Remarks

  1. ^ Cadiou, p. 223
  2. ↑ Cadiou, p. 223; Chaumier, p. 144
  3. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 100
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 167/168 (there also a photo of the scene of the coin toss with Goujon) and 383
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 168f. and 384
personal data
SURNAME Goujon, Yvon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorient