Georges Winckelmans

Georges Winckelmans (* July 14, 1910 in Lambersart, † unknown) was a French football player and coach.

Playing career

The 177 -centimeter striker Winckelmans, which was usually summoned as a right winger, was from 1929 to the squad of the northern French club Olympique Lille. With this he played in 1930 in the Division d' Honneur is the highest regional amateur league and also took part in the national cup competition. When in 1932 the division was created as one national first division and founded professional football in France, he counted together with his teammates to the pioneers of flight. He took from the beginning a of a place in the starting eleven and managed with the team winning the group in the first year or two tracks discharged league. In the championship game against AS Cannes he stood on the court, scored the goal to make it 3-1 standings as well as the decisive goal for the 4-3 final score. He was a member of the champion team of 1933, which included the first title holder in times of professional football.

Following his only national title team lost Winckelmans internally increasing its role and did not come across occasional use in the course of the season 1934/35 also. To this end, the player who had to be recorded, despite its role in the final match in 1933 generally have had little success as a scorer, could not achieve a single goal of the season. This meant that in 1935, Lille returned back and moved to the second division for local rivals RC Roubaix. With nine goals in the 1935/36 season he set his personal best value, and had thus in the rise of his club in 1936. Nevertheless, he returned at the same time back to Lille, where he became re- recorded regular missions without being permanently set. With the club he moved into the national cup final in 1939, but was not on the court and suffered a 1-3 defeat of his comrades against Racing Paris. When the Second World War began in the same year, the regular operation came to a halt and Winckelmann ended after 109 Erstligapartien with 21 goals and 22 second division games with nine goals his active career.

Coaching career

In 1947 he Winckelmans back into the professional field, as he was hired as coach of emerged among others, his former club RC Roubaix Roubaix - Tourcoing CO first division. After a year with an eighth place in the table, he moved in 1948 to League rival SO Montpellier, where he remained in office until the descent of the association in 1950. Then he took no other coach items in the top leagues.