Louis Dugauguez
Louis Dugauguez ( born February 21, 1918 in Thénac, Charente -Maritime, † September 22 1991 in Sedan ) was a French football coach, who was also responsible for the French A- national team from 1967 to 1968.
Club career
Raised in northern France, trained educators had from 1934 even played football, but only as an amateur, including at Stade Bethune ( 1934-1938 ) - where he won in 1938 the first of two French amateur championship titles - RC Lens ( 1938-1942 ) and FC Toulouse ( 1943). It was also used in the amateur national team of France. From 1948 to 1952 he worked as a player-coach at UA Sedan- Torcy, which also played during this time below the professional leagues; his greatest success in this role was the quarter finals in the National Cup Competition 1949/50, when you failed to 0:2 in the late Cupsieger Stade Reims. He was also with UAST 1951 again French amateur champion.
From 1952 he concentrated on as coach - and had consistently held this position in Sedan until 1973. Under his leadership, the team's 1953 first rose to the Division 2 after the club's management had just previously decided to give the club a professional statute. However, the players worked almost without exception by the way in a local factory. 1955 succeeded these "workers footballers " under Dugauguez also promotion to the top division, and in 1956 led the coach them to their first national title, winning the Coupe de France ( in the final 3-1 over AS Troyes - Savinienne ). In 1961, he managed to win the trophy again; again lay Sedan at the final whistle of the final 3-1 in front, this time against Olympique Nîmes. 1965 were the Sangliers - " the wild boar " is a common name in France for the football players from the wooded Ardennes - a third time in the Cup Final; after the encounter 2-2 after extra time was, however, ended the replay 3-1, this time for Sedans opponents, the Stade Rennais UC.
In the league, it was never enough though in the era of Monsieur Louis to a championship, but the UA Sedan- Torcy ( from 1966 through the merger temporarily RC Paris - Sedan and from 1970 CS Sedan) played until 1971 continuously in Division 1 and returned 1972 back into this. The best rankings of the club under Dugauguez were two third (1963, 1970) and four fifth ( 1958, 1962, 1967, 1969) ranks in the final table. After the football coach had resigned his coaching job after 25 years, the stadium of the city of Sedan was renamed Stade Louis- Dugauguez, and it is said today (2008) still.
Coach
1952 summoned the French federation FFF Dugauguez to coach the amateur national of the country; In 1955 he oversaw the Jugendnationalelf ( espoir ) of the FFF. In September 1967, he took over from the hapless Just Fontaine the senior team. To kick off the Équipe Tricolore succeeded under his leadership a brilliant 4-1 win against Poland in Warsaw ( qualifying match for the 1968 European Championship ). Even if Dugauguez after the game warned " Let's give us no illusions! " - Just 10 days later conceded France in a friendship match against Germany a 1:5 defeat. In four subsequent European Championship qualifying games the Bleus managed under Louis Dugauguez - which, as usual at that time in France, this post practiced full time basis, but only in addition to his club activities - only a win against Luxembourg and they missed the finals. After three more countries winless games, including at least a 1-1 draw with Germany, but also a 0-1 home defeat against Norway in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup, the FFF released the end of 1968 the trainer, the Georges Boulogne succeeded. Nevertheless, he still looked after in February 1969, the Équipe Tricolore in a friendly against Hungary.
Was purely on the results fro his work at the A- team success: only two wins, four draws and four losses were to book. However, the balance of his predecessors and successors looked much better, because the French football between 1960 and mid-1970 was internationally at most second-rate and was able to qualify 1966-1978 for a single major tournament; L' Équipe schlagzeilte example, via the Boulogne- successor Stefan Kovacs 1975: " Kovacs with his back to the wall ". Louis Dugauguez had courage for innovations; so he picked for the match against Poland, although some Altnationalspieler back who had recently found no more consideration, but he sold a total of 34 players ( including several comers ), and only four of them ( Djorkaeff and Bosquier ten, Baeza and Loubet per nine ) were in more than six games under his leadership on the lawn.
Palmarčs
As a player
- French amateur champion: 1938, 1951
As coach
- French Champion: None
- French Cup Winners: 1956, 1961 ( and finalist 1965)
- National coach of France from 1967 to 1968