Equip with France of football in 1973

Course of France to the Preliminary round of the football world cup 1974

The team of France was absent from final stage of the Football world cup 1974, eliminated by the the USSR in a group from qualification where appeared also the Irish Republic and from which the winner was to meet the fourth of the South America zone (in fact the Chile) in stoppings return ticket for a place in Germany. The Blue ones were at the time in rectification after the long black hole of the Sixties, under the impulse of the selector Georges Boulogne and from frameworks of authentic international value such as Georges Carnus, Marius Trésor, Serge Chiesa, or Henri Michel, but suffered from a notorious inconstancy, a lack of defensive rigor, and from mental insufficiently ground with the tournaments of the high level. After a great victory on the the USSR (1-0) in opening to Paris, France inclined itself in Ireland (1-2) then stupidly conceded no one with residence (1-1) vis-a-vis these same Irishmen on a large defensive error at seven minutes of the end. It was necessary to be essential on Moscow at the time of the last match, on May 26th, 1973, to qualify itself. Georges Boulogne aligned for the occasion one 4-1-3-2 very defensive, misant on counter to carry out the exploit vis-a-vis a Soviet team of great value whose framework would gain besides the Coupe of the Cuts two years later with the Dynamo Kiev. All remained possible during 80 minutes before Blokhine (81ème) and Onichtchenko (84ème) do not seal the score (2-0) and the destiny of the Tricolor ones. The the USSR refused thereafter to dispute the stopping return to the Chile of Pinochet for political reasons and is lived logically put except compétition.
At the summer the French federation of football makes a gold bridge to the ex trainer of the Ajax: Stefan Kovacs . Rumanian accepts but sees itself refusing the visa to go to France, one needed negociations and an intervention of Nicolae Ceaucescu to allow the uncle Stefan to make his trade. In France it traversed the territory by visiting the clubs to speak to the trainers. Its currency: as many funs as regards secondary serious as regards important . He announces to select a player, three criteria: its international class, its respect of the instructions and its form of the moment . 35 pros will play under Kovacs.

Matches

A: match amical.
QCM: Qualification World cup 1974

Players

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