Bruno Rodzik

Bruno (actually Bronislaw ) Rodzik (* May 29, 1935 in Giraumont / Meurthe -et -Moselle, † April 12, 1998 in Thionville ) was a French football player.

The club career

The full-back was at Stade de Reims in the second half of the 1950s to a guarantee that the successful series of the association still persisted until well into the next decade. Uncompromising and factual, but technically shod and equipped with offensive drive, he wore next to Jonquet, Penverne and Wendling significant contribution that the exciting attacking play Fontaine, Piantoni, Vincent, Bliard and from 1959 Lucien Muller and again Raymond Kopa had a solid defensive support. Similar to a few years later, the young Karl -Heinz Quick Inger perfected Rodzik the hard but fair sliding tackle, so blocking, Wegspitzeln or snatch the ball through lateral slipping toward the ball leading opponent.

His first appearances in the Division 1, France's top flight, recorded the Lorraine in the season in 1957/58, at the end of Reims once again national champions and had become also - trophy winner; Rodzik had but denied only five league games and also was not in the victorious team in the Cup final. But already in the following season, he was one instead of the long-standing right-back Simon Zimny ​​for stem formation - especially in the European Cup, including the final, in which the Rémois but again failed to Real Madrid (0-2 June 1959).

During his time in Reims he won the 1960 and 1962 two more national titles, was national player and played a total of 17 European games (Bruno Rodzik firing shots, two goals) - but he was also one of the most bitter experience not spared the the club at the end of an unprecedented had to make successful series ( 1945 to 1963 only in a single year worse than 4th place in Division 1 ): 1964, the runner- up from 1963 as a table next to last in the second division from where the club until 1970 with a one-year interruption had set up. Rodzik then moved together with Piantoni to OGC Nice which had also dismounted and the two helped the immediate resurgence. For the defender followed on the Côte d' Azur for three years in the top division, crowned at the end by a runner.

Stations

• AS Giraumont (up to 1957)
• Stade de Reims (1957-1964)
• OGC Nice (1964-1968)

The National Players

Between March 1960 and November 1963 Bruno Rodzik played a total of 21 times in the Équipe Tricolore. He was also in the semi-finals and finals in the final round of the first ever European Championship for national teams, the so unsuccessfully ran for France on home soil - as ever Les Bleus to be over in the years after the third place at the World Cup 1958 a long-lasting Leistungstal and not also could qualify for the 1962 World Cup. Symptomatic of this Rodziks was last international game in which France was still a 2-0 half-time lead from the hand in the Parc des Princes themselves against Switzerland.

Palmarčs

• French Champion: 1958, 1960, 1962
• French Cup Winners: 1958
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: Finalist 1959
• 21 A- internationals for France, European Championship participant in 1960
• 288 inserts and 3 goals in the D1 (197 /3 for Reims, 91/ 0 Nice )

• Football players (France)
• Born in 1935
• Died in 1998
• Man