Marc Berdoll

Marc Berdoll ( born April 6, 1953 in Trélazé, Maine -et -Loire ) is a former French footballer.

Club career

The outskirts grew up in Angers, fast and prolific center forward teamed up with 15 years the SCO Angers, in which he played himself in the 1970/71 season in the starting eleven. Between 1971 and 1974 belonged to the club always the top group of Division 1 (twice 4th and even 5th place in the final table), and the young Berdoll whose exterior features shoulder-length hair and a mustache "à la Vercingetorix ," were contributed significantly at: 1973/74, he finished in the scoring charts with 29 goals behind Carlos Bianchi second place. This season he succeeded against goalkeeper Ivan Ćurković also one of two " quads " of his career, which he " shot down " the AS Saint- Étienne almost single-handedly; the present coach Stefan Kovacs appointed him promptly thereafter in the national team. 1974/75 was his 17 goals ( number 4 in the league shooters) but the sudden crash of the SCO Angers in the second division also not prevent it. Twelve months later, the club returned as second division champions in the footballing House of Lords, and Berdoll had become the most successful strikers of the Division 2.

Nevertheless Berdoll changed in the summer of 1976 the club when the Bundesliga club 1.FC Saarbrücken signed him for 440,000 DM. The married with a striker of Lorraine took up residence across the border in Sarreguemines. The intensity of the training and the hard-hitting coverage in Germany caused him major problems, and with the coach Slobodan Čendić he came who spoke no German, likewise not cope well. His first - and ultimately only - Punktspieltor he succeeded on Matchday 2 at 1:2 to Borussia Dortmund. As Cendic no longer considered him in the fall of 1976, he owed his next assignments for 1st FCS the clamor of the crowd in Ludwig Park Stadium and the intercession of the club president, who Cendic shortly thereafter dismissed prematurely. But even under the successor of Manfred Krafft convinced Marc Berdoll in the Bundesliga not particularly, so he went back to the league, to France at the end of the season.

1977 brought him sports director Josip Skoblar to Olympique Marseille, for he succeeded to 1980 again many goals - 20 alone in the season 1977/78 ( seventh- best scorer ) -, and Marc Berdoll also returned to the national team. Two years later, Marseille, however, had a league - 19th dismount, among other things, because the attacker no longer played as constant. He joined then again his first professional club, the SCO Angers to, but in the summer of 1981, also retired from the Division 1. During the following season the not-so -scoring Berdoll was even loaned to unterklassigen SC Amiens. From there, he did not return to Angers back, but rushed for its league rivals U.S. Orléans which, although in the next three years always played along for the climb, but the return to the top flight is no longer able Berdoll there. In 1985, he finished, only 32 years old, his professional career.

Stations

• Foyer de Trélazé
• Sporting Club de l' Ouest Angers ( 1968-76 )
• 1 FC Saarbrücken (1976 /77)
• Olympique de Marseille ( 1977-80 )
• Sporting Club de l' Ouest Angers ( 1980-82, only 1980/81 in D1)
• Sporting Club d' Amiens (1st half of 1982, in D3 )
• Union Sportive Orléanaise ( 1982-85, in D2)

In the national team

Between September 1973 and May 1979 denied Marc Berdoll who had come already in the Juniorennationalelf ( espoir ) used 16 A- international matches for the Équipe Tricolore, in which he also scored 5 results. Half of his appeals was, however, made ​​substitutions. In 1978 he was part of the French squad at the World Cup finals in Argentina and played there for two of the three games of the national team. Also in this tournament he scored - 3-1 over Hungary - to the French scorers.

Life after football

Since the mid- 1980s Berdoll works in the municipal administration of L' Hôpital, just 25 kilometers west of Saarbrücken, where he was responsible for the sports sector for many years. Meanwhile, he is responsible there for the urban and landscape planning.

Palmarčs

• French Champion: None
• French Cup Winners: None
• 16 'A' matches with five hits, including 5 games in his time at Angers and 11 in Marseille
• A total of 251 top-flight with 102 Torerfolgen in France (of which 159/62 for Angers and 92/ 40 Marseille ) and 17/1 in Germany