Marcel Artelesa
Marcel Artelesa ( born July 2, 1938 in Pont -Sainte- Marie, Aube ) is a former French footballer.
Club career
Marcel Artelesa worked after school as his father as a bricklayer, which he later nicknamed " le Maçon " earned, and rather played alongside football. With 18 of the adjacent Zweitdivisionär AS Troyes - Savinienne took the defensive players in his league team, where he quickly established himself. After three years of Troyes achieved promotion to the first division; Artelesa came in 34 of the 38 matches of the use, even scoring a goal, but at the end of the 1960/61 season landed the ASTS, which had lost 28 of their games and won only five, well behind on the bottom of the table.
In response, the AS Monaco secured the services of the ' awakened, strong and energetic but elegant center-back. " The Monegasque coach Lucien Leduc had built around players like Michel Hidalgo, Lucien Cossou, " Théo " Szkudlapski and Albertus Carlier a strong team to the 1961 Yvon Douis yet met another veteran - and in which he in the role as defender of the succession of Raymond Kaelbel the still relatively inexperienced Marcel Artelesa entrusted. This justified in the next five years Leduc's confidence was missing only in a handful of competitive matches, played at the very beginning his first two European Cup matches against Glasgow Rangers and led the ASM at the end of the season 1962/63 to their hitherto greatest success, the rolled gold, so the championship and winning the national cup. However, Monaco needed for the cup final two games, because in the first final against Olympique Lyon had the coach - thanks to his " mason " also successful - " touched the concrete ", and after 120 minutes, the audience booed at the Olympic Stadium of Colombes both teams for the first goalless final of the competition 's history. In the repeat match in front of 25,000 spectators not even Monaco's defense held their own box resealed, was on the offensive but something actively, and twice successfully. Four months later Artelesa also became the national team, and the following season finished as runner-up Monaco; he was also awarded by France Football with the Étoile d'Or 1963/64, so that was the same French Player of the Year. In parallel discharged Europe Champions Cup continued his eleven in the first round against AEK Athens sovereign by then but failed to Inter Milan.
It joined two seasons in which the AS also in Division 1 took only midfield ranks. Marcel Artelesa was issued thereupon by 172 point games with five goals in 1966 to Olympique Marseille. There he saw on the side of Jean Djorkaeff and Jacques Novi at 75 League inserts in two years for a stable defense as a basis for two top places in the final table; a real championship chance had Marseille against AS Saint- Étienne, however, neither in 1967 nor in 1968 in 1968/69 was followed by a " black year " when he -. then at OGC Nice under contract - was afflicted for the first time on a lengthy injury, only 17 D1 inserts came and after Nice descent to Racing FC Paris - Neuilly had to change. This Zweitdivisionär the central defender surprisingly reached the 1970 Cup quarter-final in which his team the higher class U.S. Valenciennes Anzin forced into a third game: in Artelesas old home Troyes missed Neuilly with 1:2 but a place in the semifinal. A few weeks later he returned to this stadium because he had joined his now in Troyes Aube Football renamed, the first professional club, for which he then continued regularly ran aground and he even led back to the first division in 1973.
Immediately afterwards ended the 35 -year-old his playing career. He began working as in the municipality of Romilly- sur -Seine and trained a long time the Amateurelf the USM Romilly.
Stations
- Association Sportive Troyes - Savinienne (1957-1961, 1957-1960 in which D2)
- Association Sportive de Monaco (1961-1966)
- Olympique de Marseille (1966-1968)
- Gymnaste Olympique Club de Nice (1968 /69)
- Racing FC Paris - Neuilly (1970: Racing Paris - Joinville ) (1969 /70 in D2)
- Troyes Aube Football (1970-1973, in D2)
In the National Team
Marcel Artelesa debuted in September 1963 at a European Championship qualifying match against Bulgaria in the A national team of France. Subsequently, he also denied 19 of the next 20 matches. In 1966 he was in the French World Cup squad and played in all three group games of the World Cup. France's early withdrawal in England also heralded the end of his international career. The friendly 3-0 win in Luxembourg in November 1966, his 21st and last international match; in this he was, as already eight times previously since October 1965, the captaincy of the Bleus.
At the Luxembourg Artelesa has particularly fond memories, because even in his two previous encounters with the neighbors, the French were victorious (2-0 in October 1964 and 4-1 November 1965). And in the 1964 game he also managed his only scoring in the blue dress when he ran with the ball from his own half to the penalty box and graduated from there. Against other national teams from German-speaking countries, however, he has played only once - that was in November 1963 in a 2-2 draw against the Swiss "Nati ".
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1963
- French Cup Winners: 1963
- 21 A- international matches, 1 goal; World Cup participant in 1966
- 6 games in the European Cup of Champions
- 298 Erstligaeinsätze (6 matches ) and 192 second-division games
- Awarded the Étoile d'Or as the French Player of the Year: 1963/64,