Jean Wendling
Jean Wendling ( born April 29, 1934 in Bischheim ) is a former French footballer.
The club career
The powerfully built defender from Alsace began his career at Sporting Schiltigheim, then with Racing Strasbourg, where he played in two years against relegation. In 1957 his move to Toulouse FC, who also landed only in the middle of Division 1. It was not until 1959, when the dominant not only in France Stade de Reims signed him, he was in a top team immediately for regular players. Reims, one and a half decades offensive for his combination play and the responsible " big names " boasted ( Kopa, Penverne, Bliard, Fontaine, Piantoni, Glovacki, Hidalgo and Vincent, to name only the best known ), needed for the defensive sovereign and reliable people - and that was from 1959, Jean Wendling, who in the following years helped alongside the Rheims legend Robert Jonquet, Robert Siatka and Bruno Rodzik that Rémois could continue to collect titles.
Because of its speed, comprehension and ball technology Wendling was able to keep the enemy outside left with absolutely fair means in chess; excessive physical exertion, despite his stature not his thing, what his coach (which was in the club and in the national team Albert Batteux ) had cost many a gray hair, although success Wendling's play confirmed. The Madrilene Gento example desperate in 1959 formally to the Frenchman who just completed his third international match, but fell for no trick of the small Spanish Dribblers. 1960 and 1962 was Jean Wendling each French football champions, also in 1963 still runner-up.
An operation in the summer of 1963, and the surprising descent from Reims the year after that heralded his slow farewell, he finally took place in the 2nd league in 1965 after one year.
Stations
- Sporting Club Schiltigheim (1952-1955)
- Racing Strasbourg (1955-1957)
- Toulouse FC (1957-1959)
- Stade de Reims (1959-1965)
The National Players
Between November 1959 and April 1963 Jean Wendling played a total of 26 times in the Équipe Tricolore. He was the reliability in person remained spared from serious injuries, so he was not taken only at two international matches in this period. His bad luck at the international level was that Les Bleus after the third place at the FIFA World Cup 1958 had a very weak phase: the disappointing performance at the European Championships in their own country (1960) and the miss qualifying for the 1962 World Cup among the black days in Wendling's biography. In addition, he had become in July 1957 France Military World Champion.
Life after football
After the end of his playing days, he worked many years for the sporting goods company that Raymond Kopa with several other ex- Reimsern on the French market and goal for. In the 1990s, he held various positions with Racing Strasbourg (General Manager, 1992-1994 President to 1999 Chairman of the Supervisory Board).
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1960, 1962 ( and runner-up 1963)
- 26 A- internationals for France, in the participation in the European Football Championship 1960
- 311 inserts, but no scoring in the D1 ( 83/ 0 for Strasbourg, 71 / 0 for Toulouse, 157/ 0 of Reims )
- Military World Champion 1957