Edmond Delfour – Wikipedia
Edmond Delfour (* November 1, 1907 in Ris -Orangis in today’s Essonne department, † December 21, 1990 in Corsica) was a French football player and coach.
Club career [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In the summer of 1928, the wiry half-striker Delfour came from the Paris surrounding area to the capital club Stade Français, in which the 20-year-old soon became a regular player. Already during his first season at Stade Français, he drew attention to the selection committee of the football association and made his debut as a national player (see below). In 1929 he moved to the local rival Racing Club de France, where he stayed for eight years. There he was officially vocational footballer in 1932-with the introduction of a professional league-and in 1936 won the Doublé (national champion and cup winner) in a team that hides with the two “Austro-French” “Rodolphe” and “Gusti” Jordan, the dangerous duo Veinante/Couard and the British Frederick Kennedy had other outstanding players in their ranks.
In the two years before the outbreak of war, he played for RC Roubaix in northern France; There he ended his nine -year -old national team career, but also experienced a particularly dark hour: the Roubaisiens ended up in the last place in the table at the end of the 1938/39 season. Then Edmond Delfour moved to Normandy to FC Rouen, where he played six successful years during the war and German occupation. In 1940 he won the championship title of the north group of the league, which, however, was also not a official title as the 1945 war championship, which the renewed north first from Rouen celebrated after a 4-0 over the south winner Lyon Olympique Universitaire. In 1941, 1942 and 1943, Delfour also took second place in the North group with this club. After the liberation of France, he nevertheless returned to Paris and denied one season in the Division 1 For Red Star Olympique. At the end, his team made it to the final in the cup. This was lost against Lille OSC. The now 39-year-old Delfour no longer took part in the final.
His special strengths included technology, ball skills and an extraordinary condition that enabled him to go long distances on the field; Delfour also did not shy away from dribbling opponents, which the coaches were no longer happy to see at his active time. Outside the stadium, he is described as a Filou and mood cannon, which he has often demonstrated during the then relatively long -lasting trips with his teams.
Stations [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- Es viry-châtillon
- Draveil
- Es Juvisy-sur-Orge
- Stade Français Paris (1928/29)
- RC Paris (1929–1937; bis 1932 Racing Club of France )
- RC Roubaix (1937–1939)
- FC Rouen (1939–1945; in the 1943/44 season as a regional selection Rouen-Normandie federal team )
- Red Star Olympique Paris (1945/46)
National team [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Between May 1929 and June 1938, Edmond Delfour played a total of 41 games for the Équipe Tricolore, three of them in his time at Stade Français, 34 at Racing Paris and four for RC Roubaix. He scored two goals in these games, and in twelve encounters he was also team captain.
The international highlights include his participation in the first three World Championships: At the tournaments in Uruguay, Italy and in their own country, Delfour plays all six games of the national team; He also took part in the unofficial match that the French lost to Brazil on August 1, 1930, before they returned to Europe.
With his 41st appointment, a home defeat against Italy, he hired Jules Dewaquez’s national player record until then, but could no longer beat him. In June 1937, he was called for the Western Europe selection, which, however, defeated 1: 3 in Amsterdam against the strong Central European Elf with its Austrian, Czech and Hungarian top performers.
Delfour later worked as a trainer and had a good reputation, especially in Belgium; There he worked at Kaa Gent, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, Cercle Bruges (1958–1962) and the RFC Liège. In France he worked for Stade Français (for the first time in the 1952/53 season and again after 1963), Le Havre AC and finally Sec Bastia. In March 1953, he looked after a team of Dutch foreign professionals who met a benefit game (the so -called Watersnoodwedstrijd) in favor of the victims of the Hollandsturmflut for the French national team.
After 13 years of coaching, he settled in Corsica permanently, where he led the hotel of his son-in-law, the French ex-Nationalkeepers Dominique Colonna, in the restonica valley for a while. Once he was persuaded to return to the sidelines when the US Corte Amateur Association asked him.
Edmond Delfour died in 1990 at the age of 83.
- Hubert Beaudet: The Coupe de France. His winners, his surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3
- Hubert Beaudet: The championship and its champions. 70 years of football in France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9
- Denis Chaumier: Blues. All the players of the French team from 1904 to the present day. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
- Pierre Delauney/Jacques de Ryswick/Jean Cornu: 100 years of football in France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983 IbN 2-7312-0108-8
- Gérard Ejnès/The team: The beautiful story. The French football team. The team, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
- Paul Hurseau/Jacques Verhaeghe: Northern football immortals. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
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