Jean-François Jodar
Jean -François Jodar ( born December 2, 1949 in Montereau- Fault-Yonne ) is a French former football player and current coach.
Playing career
In its clubs
Jean -François Jodar came in 1967 by an amateur club of his birthplace to second division side Stade Reims, where he initially at age 17, already played a dozen point games in his debut season. In addition, he advanced to the A- youth of the Red -Whites to the final of the Coupe Gambardella, in which he scored two goals as a center forward. Also in the U-18 national team, he came regularly used; with this he was in the finals of the 1968 European Junior Championships. In the following season he was also in the men's team regular, scoring seven goals. 1970 returned Stade Reims in the first division back, and the versatile, well before many times over the midfield active, assertive because of his athleticism Jodar became increasingly active as a defender for use. With Delio Onnis, Georges Lech and Carlos Bianchi, the club more successful striker had in these years without this in his squad. Nevertheless, were to win with Reims no national title; Although closed the Elf from Champagne to 1975 mostly on a single digit from table space, but the best place was a sixth place in 1973/ 74.
1975 undertook the third preseason, Olympique Lyon, Jean -François Jodar. But also on the Rhône it ran in the next four years - and despite turn renowned players such as Bernard Lacombe, Aimé Jacquet and his teammates at the European junior championships in 1968, Serge Chiesa - in the championship rather mediocre: again was a sixth place in the final table ( 1977) the best placement, and twice (1976 and 1978 ) escaped Jodar with Lyon even barely escape relegation. But he came in the National Cup in the 1975/76 season, even to the final before, but that was then won by Olympique Marseille 2-0. In the same season Jodar also came to his first two stakes in a European Cup competition, as Lyon (where a Jodar gate) and 0:3 against FC Bruges was eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup after 4:3.
In 1979, the reigning French champions Jodar to Racing Strasbourg. Direct his first season in Alsace ended with rank 5 and thus the best championship finish of his entire playing career. Also in the European Champions competition was the team of coach Gilbert Gress, in the Jodar among others aground on the side of Dominique Dropsy and Jacques Novi and his former Reims goal Carlos Bianchi, relatively wide. After a clear success against Start Kristiansand (2:1, 4:0) and a tighter against Dukla Prague (0-1, 2-0 aet) was in the quarterfinals of the hurdle Ajax Amsterdam, however, can not be overcome (0:0, 0: 4).
After four years at Strasbourg he accepted an offer to work at Zweitdivisionär Entente Montceau as player-coach. However, the first local season ended with the descent of the supported of Jodar Elf, whereupon it focused exclusively on the trainer work.
- To 1967 ASA de Montereau
- 1967-1975 Stade de Reims (up to 1970 in D2)
- 1975-1979 Olympique Lyonnais
- 1979-1983 Racing Club de Strasbourg
- 1983/84 Entente de Montceau ( in D2, as player-coach )
In the National Team
Between June 1972 and April 1975, the former Junior European Vice Champion Jean -François Jodar denied six A- international matches for France, where he also achieved a hit. Coach Georges Boulogne and its successor Ştefan Kovács put him there on always on the right side of defense; to this position, however, he was in Raymond Domenech, Gérard and Christian Lopez Janvion three strong competitors. In the fall of 1974 Jodar also came in two qualifying matches for the 1976 European used, namely the 1:2 with the " Red Devils" and the 2-2 against the East German selection. 2-0 away win in the friendly match against Poland, the defender scored with a volley from the edge of the hit to make it 2-0.
Trainer activities
Jodar initially remained in the now renamed FC Montceau third division and led him already at the end of the first season in the second division back. In 1987, the French Federation him to assistant coach Henri Michel's at the senior team; as a member of the national coaching staff, the Direction Technique Nationale ( DTN ), he was also responsible for the older cohorts of youth national teams until 2002. Jodar, the two of his former club coaches were features in his own coach philosophy, namely the experienced Lucien Leduc at Reims and the young Aimé Jacquet in Lyon was in 1997 with the U- 19 European and 2001 with the U-17 world champions. From 2002 to 2006 he was the main person responsible for the junior or the A national team of the United Arab Emirates, then three years head coach in Mali, whose first team he was also in charge at the finals of the African Cup of Nations 2008.
The end of 2009 he returned to club football; his two six-month commitment to the Moroccan first division HUS Agadir, MA Tetouan, however, were not crowned with success countable; in Tétouan Jean -François Jodar was released at the end of 2010, because the team was ranked only on a mid-table.
Palmarčs
- Finalist of the French A- Youth Championship: 1968
- Finalist of the A- Youth Championship: 1968
- French Cup finalist: 1976
- 6 'A' matches (1 goal )
- 8 European games (1 goal )
- 421 games ( 16 goals ) in Division 1, of which 156/13 for Reims, 134 /2 for Lyon, 131 /1 for Strasbourg
- U-19 European Championship: 1997
- U- 17 World Cup: 2001
- Participation in the African Cup of Nations: 2008
- " Monte relay of the Year": 2000