Bernard Delcampe

Bernard Delcampe ( born September 12, 1932 in Mohon, Ardennes department; † January 8, 2013 ) was a French football player. The striker reached with AS Troyes - Savinienne the final of the Coupe de France. Later, he was a coach in the second division and worked as an official at the Fédération Française de Football.

Sports career

Delcampe joined shortly before his 17th birthday Stade Reims. Under coach Henri Roessler debuted the junior national team, who finished with the French selection 1950 at the UEFA youth tournament in Austria in second place, half a year later in Division 1 at the side of Francis Méano, Albert Batteux, Paul Sinibaldi, Roger Marche and Robert Jonquet. Even when his teammates Albert Batteux took over as coach of Roessler, he was considered only very sporadically, Cup victory 1950 was at Reims ' involved in any single game and saw the face of only two point stakes in three years no future for themselves in the Rémois.

Therefore Delcampe moved in 1952, together with Antonio Abenoza to AS Troyes - Savinienne. With the second division he missed in his first season as the Fourth Erstligaaufstieg table, in the second division season 1953/54, took the team behind Olympique Lyonnais as a table runner a promotion place. In the Coupe de France, he was successful with it, the offensive player reached at the competitions 9152/53 and 1953/54, the semi-finals. However, towards the FC Nancy OGC Nice respectively they just missed the final collection, each with a gate. 1955 athletic descended, but to change due to the refusal of a license for the unsound economic end Movers Red Star Olympique in the league, Delcampes Eleven were relegated the following year as a Table. Parallel pulled the team but in the cup final, where he ran aground on the side of Team Captain Pierre Flamion, Fernand De Vlaeminck, the Dane Erik Jensen Kuld and the Swedish legionnaire Åke Hjalmarsson in the forward line. A few hours after the final defeat against UA Sedan- Torcy, he was conscripted into the French army for use in the Algerian war.

After a half year Delcampe returned and hired at FC Limoges. With the second division climber he made the walkover in the Division 1 After relegated again in 1961 and 1965 he played for the club in the second division. He then trailed off at Stade Poitiers in the Championnat de France amateur his career, where he served as player-coach and later - after the end of his active career - reüssierte coach. Between 1970 and 1974 the club played under his direction in the second division.

As a functionary at Stade Poitiers he recommended for the Fédération Française de Football. There he was a member of the Federal Council and is responsible for youth development. He was awarded the French National Order of Merit of Merit.