Robert Jonquet

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Robert Jonquet
Personal information
Full name Robert Jonquet
Date of birth May 3, 1925 (1925-05-03) (age 83)
Place of birth    Paris, France
Height 1.76 m
Playing position Defender
Youth clubs
1937-1941
1941-1942
1941-1942
1942-1945		 Robinson
Châtenay-Malabry
SS Voltaire de Paris
Stade de Reims
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1945-1960
1960-1962		 Stade de Reims
RC Strasbourg		 502 (9)
55 (3)   
National team
1948-1960 Flag of France France 58 (0)
Teams managed
1961-1964
1964-1967
1980-1981		 RC Strasbourg
Stade de Reims
Stade de Reims

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Robert Jonquet (born May 3, 1925), is a French former football defender. He played the majority of his professional career for the club Stade de Reims, winning five French championships and appearing in two European Cup finals.

Nicknamed "The Hero of Highbury" after an outstanding individual performance against England in London in 1951, Jonquet was integral to the French national teams of the 1950s, playing at the World Cup finals of 1954 and 1958.

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[edit] Playing career

[edit] 1946-1956

During his youth, Jonquet played in Châtenay-Malabry in the southern Paris surrounding countryside, and afterwards for the Société Sportive Voltaire. In 1946/47, he played his first season at Stade de Reims of the division 1. He became a first-team player, and in the spring 1947, he was first called up to the France national team. Jonquet was relatively short (1.76 m) for his playing position, or to be a libero, but played with elegance and talent, contrary to the typical central "destroyer" with the back number 5.

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In the 1948/49 season he first won the French championship, 1950 of the Coupe de France, followed 1953 of its second French championship and the Latin Cup. In the year after it participated with Les Bleus in its first world championship final round in Switzerland, in 1955 he won French championship again, for the first time winners of the French Supercup, he was finalist in the Coupe Latine and reached with Stade Reims the final in the newly born European Cup , which was lost in 1956 against Real Madrid 3:4. Two further high points of these years took place likewise on international fields: in October 1951 France played in London against England (with Alf Ramsey and Billy Wright). Jonquet's superb game helped France obtain a 2:2 draw, and on the next morning a newspaper headline read "The hero of Highbury", which was particularly dedicated to him.[1] The "hero" also played in a European selection which defeated England in a friendly matc in 1955.

[edit] A main player in one of the best teams of Europe

Enumerating of Robert Jonquet fellow players with Reims reads itself like a Who's Who of the French football of the 1950er years: between goalkeeper (Dominique Colonna) and offensive forces (Raymond Kopa, Michel Hidalgo, Léon Glovacki, Jean Vincent, Just Fontaine, Roger Piantoni, René Bliard) safe defensive players stood such as Roger Marche, Armand Penverne, Albert Batteux, Michel Leblond, Jean Wendling - and evenly over one decade for Jonquet, which is the only players who played in all four final of European Cup. Albert Batteux by the way accompanied and supported Jonquet career equivalent three-way: as a fellow players (until 1950), as a manager (1950-1959) and as French national football coach (starting from 1955).

[edit] 1957-1961

The 1957/58 season he held further titles but it's probably blackest hour for Jonquet. With Reims he won the French both championship and cup, became besides again Supercup winner of its country. In addition he participated in its second soccer world championship, at 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden where France finished third. However its misfortune in the semi-final (see below) prevented Jonquet's participation in the match for third place (6: 3 against Germany).[2]

To the second European Cup final against rival Real Madrid (1959, 0:2) Raymond Kopa returned from Los Merengues to Reims - and promptly Jonquet won its fifth French championship in 1960 and its third Supercup. In this summer he retired at 35 from France and changed to Racing Strasbourg into the second league, which in 1961 got promoted in the division 1; that was its last success as a player.

[edit] National player

Between April 1948 and July 1960 Robert Jonquet played 58 matches for France and was in nine international matches also the team captain. He participated 1954 FIFA World Cup (one match) and 1958 FIFA World Cup (five matches as the team captains). In Sweden he injured in the semi-final against Brazil after 35 minutes, in an impact with Vavá, so that he could hardly move thereafter. In the half-time break - replacing at that time not yet permitted - the team physician injected a pain-satisfying syringe, and Jonquet stood on the two legs. Half time more or less useless at the left wing around. Indeed, he had broken its fibula.[3] [4]But five months later he came back in the national team.[5]

He played his last match at Euro 1960 against Czechoslovakia.[6]

[edit] After his playing career

At RC Strasbourg, Robert Jonquet changed from the playing field to the coach bank, having also a spell with Stade Reims and afterwards with a small suburb team, Rumilly. He is now very disappointed with the rise of money in football, missing his time at Stade de Reims.[7]

[edit] Overview on Jonquet's career

[edit] Clubs

[edit] Honours

  • French championship winner: 1949, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960 (and runner-up 1947 and 1954, in addition three times third and fourth the D1; only 1956 only 10th place for Reims)
  • Coupe de France winner: 1950, 1958
  • French Supercup (Trophée des Champions) winner: 1955, 1958, 1960
  • European Cup finalist in 1956 and 1959,
  • Coupe Latine winner: 1953 (and finalist 1955)
  • 58 caps for France, including nine times as captain.

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ FFF : Equipe de France de Football, football, fiche, Bleus, actualité, vidéo, reportage, photo
  2. ^ FFF : Equipe de France de Football, football, fiche, Bleus, actualité, vidéo, reportage, photo
  3. ^ FFF : Equipe de France de Football, football, fiche, Bleus, actualité, vidéo, reportage, photo
  4. ^ Fabuleuses histoires de l'équipe de France, les dossiers Ouest France, 1998
  5. ^ FFF : Equipe de France de Football, football, fiche, Bleus, actualité, vidéo, reportage, photo
  6. ^ FFF : Equipe de France de Football, football, fiche, Bleus, actualité, vidéo, reportage, photo
  7. ^ La nostalgie de Robert Jonquet - l'Humanite
  8. ^ France Football magazine, N°3044

[edit] External links

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France squad - 1954 FIFA World Cup
1 Remetter • 2 Ruminski • 3 Abbes • 4 Gianessi • 5 Grimonpon • 6 Kaelbel • 7 Marche • 8 Bieganski • 9 Cuissard • 10 Jonquet • 11 Louis • 12 Marcel • 13 Mahjoub • 14 Penverne • 15 Ben Tifour • 16 Dereuddre • 17 Glovacki • 18 Kopa • 19 Leblond • 20 Schultz • 21 Strappe • 22 Vincent • Coach: Pibarot
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France squad - 1958 FIFA World Cup Third Place
1 Abbes • 2 Colonna • 3 Remetter • 4 Kaelbel • 5 Lerond • 6 Marche • 7 Mouynet • 8 Chiarelli • 9 Hnatow • 10 Jonquet • 11 Lafont • 12 Marcel • 13 Penverne • 14 Bellot • 15 Bruey • 16 Douis • 17 Fontaine • 18 Kopa • 19 Oliver • 20 Piantoni • 21 Vincent • 22 Wisnieski • Coach: Batteux
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