AS Gardanne
Avenir Sporting Gardannais, AS Gardanne short, is the name of a French football club from the Provencal town of Gardanne. The club was founded in 1921. The first men's team enters 2013/14 in the sechstklassigen Division d'Honneur.
History
While the place Gardanne from the 19th century was marked more industrial, lived places like the counting to the community site Biver rather by mining. From this tradition, several football clubs emerged in the region. On February 14, 1921 beat Emile Escoffier, a lawyer in Aix -en- Provence, before the establishment of a football club for Gardanne. The founding of the club was officially on October 10, by being confirmed by the sub-prefecture. As a club colors first Black and White are set. For the season 1933/34, the club of the community was under the leadership of then Mayor Victor Savine a small stadium called Stade Saint -Roch near the center. By winning the Provence Championship against a team from Aubagne to Gardanne secured in 1935 the first regional amateur title in their history.
In the 1959/60 season, the team succeeded in gaining in the national round of the French Cup competition. This was already reason alone, a big surprise, because at that time it only in sixth league, the Promotion d' Honneur B, took. In Zweiunddreißigstelfinale Avenir Sporting sat down 5-2 after extra time against a fifth-tier through and hit in the next round on Valentine's Day on the Erstdivisionär Toulouse FC. The game was, as it was then in the Cup usual, on neutral ground in Arles instead. The amateur team was made up of seven miners, two boilermakers - one of whom also worked in the local mine, the other at Pechiney - together, a carpenter and an automotive mechanic. Among these eleven players were two, grew from their families later French international, namely Isidore Pardo, the father of Bernard, and Roland Revelli, one of the older brothers of Hervé and Patrick. They succeeded, which had since the introduction of professionalism in French football (1932 ) still managed no sixth league team and the club in the history of the competition to the Coupe de France immortalized ( " à jamais les premiers " ): they switched the Toulouse FC, at this time table fourth in the top division and in full strength ( including Léon Deladerrière, Robert Mouynet and Ernest Schultz ) had set out from 3-2. This Toulouse had even located a 2-1 forward, the outsider - poucet as petit in France or designated " Tom Thumb " - but the game turned. Gardanne it brought with it even on the front page of L' Équipe, whose headline on February 15, 1960 was " enormously! Gardanne ( 30th - best club of Provence ) issued Toulouse ( fourth best French club) a lesson! ".
In the subsequent second round AS Gardanne met in Nice on the second division professionals Lille OSC that could decide the game 2-1 for itself after Gardanne had gone 1-0. The miners' team was awarded by France Football donated, union official award as the best amateur club competition 1959/60 at the end of the season.
In 1963 the club was relegated to the Division d'Honneur, then the fourth- highest division of the French league system. By 1987, AS Gardanne played mostly in the fourth division. After several times the team got down, came only in 2007 temporarily in the fifth league back.
Well-known former players and coaches
- Moncef Djebali (1957-2009), as a teenager
- Louis de Maréville (1918-1982), Gardannes coach from 1959
- Bernard Pardo ( b. 1960 ), as a teenager
- Hervé Revelli (* 1946), as a teenager
- Daniel Xuereb ( b. 1959 ), as a teenager