André Lerond

André Lerond (December 6, 1930 in Le Havre ) is a French former football player.

Club career

The footed played in its clubs usually center-half; although not very tall and rather slender, he was assertive on the floor and also in the head ball game, also had a good ball handling. As a teenager, he began in the early postwar years with a club from the Norman Coutances; at 19, he moved from the English Channel to the Côte d' Azur for AS Cannes -Grasse in the second division. In the summer of 1951 he moved to Erstligaaufsteiger Lyon, where he stayed for the next eight years. Lyon rose again after one year in the Division 2 but returned in 1954 back to the top flight. Title of course, were the Gones - so still common today Identification of the Lyon team - not to win: two eighth places (1956 and 1958 ) in the championship and a semi-final in the National Cup (1956 ) were for Lerond the greatest success in the red - whites. For this he was at this time but for the national team ( see below).

1959 brought him Stade Français in the capital, where he financially, although more resistant than Olympique, sporty but also not make it past middle spaces: more than a tenth place in the table in Division 1 (1962 ) did not jump in the four years on the Seine out. That this was mediocre at the very least to André Lerond, shows his award as most resistant players in the league in the 1961/62 season, for which France Football the Étoile d'or awarded him. At the end of the season 1962/63 he finished only 32 years old, from family and professional reasons, his career as a professional footballer.

Stations

• Coutances
• Association Sportive de Cannes -Grasse ( until 1951, in D2)
• Olympique Lyonnais (1951-1959, of 1952-1954 in D2)
• Stade Français Paris (1959-1963)

National players

Between October 1957 and April 1963 denied Lerond total of 31 A- international matches for the Équipe Tricolore. Because the center-half position was occupied there until 1960 by Robert Jonquet ( Stade Reims ), he played mostly as a left defender, but could also be used as an external rotor. The highlight of this year at the Bleus was the appointment by sélectionneur Paul Nicolas and coach Albert Batteux in the French squad at the World Championships in 1958. Sweden, he was placed in all six games and had a great share in France by then prime placement at the World Cup finals; the 3rd place match, which his team won 6:3 against Germany, he stood by Jonquets serious injury from the semi-finals on his favorite position in the middle.

After his move to Stade Français Lerond in 1959 and 1960 considered only in two international matches; thus he missed the part in the France disappointingly extending first European Championship finals on home soil. It was not until the autumn of 1961 he was once again the main cast and then carried in ten encounters the captaincy.

Life after the active period

André Lerond moved from the lawn in the management of a large French company's pulp and tissue industry and made there likewise career. As late as 2006, at his 76th birthday, he was PDG, ie CEO of Paredes - Apura group (brand name 'prop').

Palmarčs

• French Champion: None
• French Cup Winners: None
• 31 caps for France, including 16 during his time at Lyon and 15 at Stade Français; World Cup bronze medalist in 1958
• Winners of the Étoile d'Or: 1961/62
• 278 inserts and 5 goals in Division 1, with 153 /3 Lyon and 125 /2 Stade Français