Léon Glovacki

Léon Glovacki ( born February 19, 1928 in Libercourt / Pas -de- Calais; † 9 September 2009 in Geneva ), rarely also in the spelling Léon Glowacki, was a French football player.

The club career

The blonde son of an immigrant Polish miner made ​​soon after the end of World War II at his club in Douai attention and was initially required by AS Troyes before 1952 Stade de Reims, the top European club of the 1950s, changed. Glovacki understood almost blind from the beginning, especially with Reims ' playmaker Raymond Kopa; the inside right was quick goal threat, strong in the air and equipped with a good eye for the game situation. In just five years, at Reims, he played 160 first division matches, was twice champion of France and one runner-up and was in the team for the European Champions Cup in the summer of 1956 lost the very first playoff just barely (3:4) against Real Madrid.

He then moved - because he was looking for new challenges in a new environment - together with Michel Hidalgo to AS Monaco and from there to AS Saint- Étienne, the 1960 French Cup final reached, but it just was defeated by the Monegasque. Then Léon Glovacki returned to Reims back nor denied 33 Erstligapartien for the Red and Whites from the Champagne region and was to conclude a third time national champion.

Stations

  • Douai
  • AS Troyes - Savinienne (up to 1952)
  • Stade de Reims (1952-1957)
  • AS Monaco (1957-1959)
  • AS Saint- Etienne (1959 /60)
  • Stade de Reims (1960-1962)

The National Players

Between September 1953 and December 1955 Léon Glovacki played a total of eleven times in the Équipe Tricolore, scoring three goals. In France for so disappointing running football World Cup in 1954 it was used in the match against Yugoslavia. As his personal, not only sporting highlight, however, he has always been the first game of the Bleus beyond the Iron Curtain ( October 1955 in Moscow, 2-2 against the USSR ) and are the direct duel with the great Igor Netto.

Life after active career

Glovacki later worked temporarily as manager and then in the real estate industry. At its new food point Geneva he sold houses and luxury property. In Geneva he died in 2009, 81 -year-old, too.

Palmarčs

  • French Champion: 1953, 1955, 1962
  • French Cup Winner: None, but Finalist 1960 ( with Saint- Étienne )
  • Winner of the Coupe Charles Drago: 1954
  • Winner of the French Super Cup: 1955
  • European Cups: finalist in the European Champions Cup (1956 ) and winner of the Coupe Latine (1953 )
  • 11 matches ( three goals) for the Équipe Tricolore
  • 267 missions and 84 goals in the D1 ( 192/65 in Reims, 55/15 for Monaco, 20/4 for Saint- Étienne )
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