Jacques Favre

Jacques Favre ( born May 6, 1921 in Laon, † 8 May 2008 in Mutzig ) was a French football player and coach.

  • 2.1 stations
  • 3.1 as a player
  • 3.2 as coach

Playing career

The goalkeeper Jacques Favre came in the 1939/40 season Stade Reims. There he became the backing of a team that during which - now in force only as an unofficial France - "war championships " so successfully suggested that it was in 1945 classified in the highest division, who had never before heard. Reims in 1940 third, 1941 fourth 1942 first, 1943 and 1945 Fifth fourth in the northern group. Also belonged to this Elf & a Batteux Flamion, Ignace, Jonquet, Marche, Petitfils, Roessler, Pierre Sinibaldi, and player-coach Vandooren In the cup competition of those years, the club reached 1941 the semi-finals and in 1942 the final of the upstream part of competition in the occupied zone of France, the Reims against Red Star Olympique lost after a " fierce battle " with 0:1. In the season 1943/44, when competed in league and cup instead of club teams regional selections, Favre was indeed in the squad, but not in the case of Equipe Fédérale de Reims -Champagne, as this lost the final at the state level against the EF Nancy- Lorraine.

After the liberation of the country, the Red -Whites increased further ( there were talented players like Jacowski, Bini or Penverne ), and Favre was the undisputed choice goalkeeper of the team that was 1947 runner-up and also in 1946 and 1948 just behind the respective champions einkam: to 1948 he was missing only in one of a total of 106 point games. As in 1948 with Paul Sinibaldi, a new goalkeeper has been committed to Stade Reims Favre gave to the league rivals OGC Nice; with this team, he was in seventh and had to watch as his former Rémois won their first championship in the distance.

From 1949 Jacques Favre played for FC Nancy. Although the Lorraine Clemens, Deladerrière and Piantoni possessed some strong players, she succeeded only 1952/53, a single digit rank in the final table. But Favre reached with Nancy this season even the cup final, which was lost with 1-2 against Olympique Lille. 1953/54, had the goalie there still as player-coach, before he focused exclusively on the new role next to the outside line.

Stations

  • Stade de Reims (1939-1943 and 1944-1948)
  • Equipe Fédérale de Reims -Champagne (1943 /44)
  • Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice (1948 /49)
  • Football Club Nancy (1949-1954)

Coaching career

After his time at FC Nancy Favre managed the FC Metz, who fought for three years against relegation to Division 2 and this could not prevent 1958. According to Metz, he returned in 1963 back - in between he had worked for the Belgian KAA Gent and the northern French second division CO Roubaix - Tourcoing - where he again three years had he but until 1966 could not be attributed to Division 1.

This subsequently failed him with the AS Angoulême, but made ​​twice a stir in the cup competition. Not but about on the lawn, where it each after extra time 3:3 - 1967 reached Favre's team after wins against higher class FC Nantes and Lens the semi-finals, in which they failed to Olympique Lyon, the Coupe de France, the eventual winner and stood in the replays twice 1:1, but only by drawing lots in the locker room, because Captain Yvon Goujon had chosen the wrong side of the 5 franc coin. The Stade Vélodrome initially there was great confusion because then only players from Angoulême took to the field again, many viewers believed that the outsider would have qualified for the Final; individual newspapers, hastily informed by phone about published this even in their spending the next day. 1968 turned the ASA again two first division (FC Rouen FC Sochaux respectively ) and met in the semifinals of the AS Saint- Étienne. This time is Favre's Eleven excellent ( 1-1 aet ) resisted forced a replay again and only lost in the later Cup winner with 1:2.

But in the early 1970s he returned at AS Nancy ( assistant coach ) and again back at FC Metz in the top flight. After a year at Zweitdivisionär U.S. Boulogne, he became technical director of the Ligue de football de Lorraine, the Lorraine Regional Council of FFF. Two days after his 87th birthday Jacques Favre died in Alsace Mutzig.

Stations

  • Football Club Nancy (1953-1955)
  • Football Club of Metz (1955-1958)
  • Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent (1959 /60)
  • Club Olympique Roubaix - Tourcoing (1962 /63 in D2)
  • Football Club of Metz (1963-1966)
  • Association Sportive d' Angoulême (1966-1968)
  • Association Sportive Nancy- Lorraine (1970 /71 as an assistant coach )
  • Football Club of Metz (1971 )
  • Union Sportive de Boulogne (1973 /74)

Palmarčs

As a player

  • French Champion: None (but vice-champion in 1947 and Masters of the North group in 1942 [ unofficial title] )
  • French Cup Winner: None (but Finalist 1953)
  • 251 games ( as of 1945 ) in Division 1, of which 105 are for Reims, 30 Nice, 116 for Nancy

As coach

  • Semi-finalist of the French Cup: 1967, 1968
May 8 Albert Batteux Ignace Kowalczyk Robert Jonquet Roger Marche Henri Roessler Jules Vandooren Pierre Bini Armand Penverne Lorraine (region) Kurt Clemens CO Roubaix-Tourcoing Olympique Lyonnais FC Sochaux-Montbéliard US Boulogne
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