Robert Budzynski
Robert Budzynski ( Robert Budzinski, born May 21, 1940 in Calonne-Ricouart/Pas-de-Calais ) is a former French football player and functionary.
Club career
Like so many descendants of Polish immigrants settled in the northern French mining area - who also was born in Calonne- Ricouart, three years older Maryan Wisnieski for example, went through exactly the same stations - Budzynski began early on with playing football, first in the team of his school in Béthune, then at the Amateurelf U.S. Auchel and finally at one of the major professional associations of the region: 1958 undertook the RC Lens to -edged, solid center half or Vorstopper with good heading ability.
1963 brought him the first time ascended to this season in the top division FC Nantes in Brittany, and this association remained Budzynski the next good 42 years at two functions obtained, Nantes did not have to descend a single time in the Division 2 at this time. On the side of players like Ramon Muller, Jean -Claude Suaudeau, Bernard Blanchet, Jacky Simon and Philippe Gondet he was an indispensable size in his new club, with whom he also twice national champion in 1965 and 1966 and 1966 also stood in the Cup final the then somewhat surprisingly lost 0-1 against Racing Strasbourg. A double fracture of the right leg in December 1968 meant that he had at the end of this season, just 29 become, end his playing career.
Stations as a player
- Union Sportive d' Auchel (1956-1958, as a teenager )
- Racing Club de Lens (1958-1963)
- FC Nantes (1963-1969)
National players
Between October 1965 and March 1967 Budzynski was eleven times elected to the Équipe Tricolore. In France disappointing running soccer World Cup 1966 he was not only the French squad, but he also denied all three group stage matches in England. Height of his short international career, however, was an international match against the team from his ancestral home in October 1966 for him Nationaltrainerduo Snella / Arribas, such as certain also in two other encounters, the team captain. This fine, empathetic gesture of the two club coaches who supervised the Bleus on an interim basis - the Polish -born Snella was actually at AS Saint- Étienne in wages and bread, Arribas was head coach at Budzynskis FC Nantes -, the defense stretching was much more important than the result of friendly match, which ended 2-1 to France.
Life after the active period
In 1970 Nantes ' long-time president Louis Fonteneau ( 1969 to 1986 at the top of the club ) the defense stretching to the athletic director of the Association; in this function Budzynski has for 35 years worked quite successfully until 1976 and again from 1983 brought in close cooperation with José Arribas, and in addition to countless young players from the club 's Centre de formation also more than 200 players to the Loire estuary. Only in October 2005, he finished this task by reaching the retirement age.
Palmarčs
- French champion: twice as a player (1965, 1966), six times as sports director (1973, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1995, 2001)
- French Cup winners: three times, just as sports director (1979, 1999, 2000)
- 243 games and 5 goals in Division 1, 73 /2 for Lens and 170/3 for Nantes
- 11 A internationals ( no hit) for France