Étienne Sansonetti

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Étienne Sansonetti (born December 5, 1935 in Marseille ; † May 31, 2018 ) was a French football player who was still active in the professional field as a 40-year-old.

Player career

Étienne Sansonetti, the son of Corsican parents, began playing club football at a young age at suburban club US Endoume Marseille . In 1954 he moved to Olympique Marseille , but was only considered in the second team for the next four years. For the first division eleven , the striker only played a handful of point games in 1958/59; this season ended for Marseille, however, with relegation to the second division . Sansonetti then developed into a regular player and Olympique's most successful goalscorer and returned in 1962 with OM in the top division; when the team was relegated again ten months later, the US Valenciennes-Anzin picked him up to northern France, but gave him to league rivals SCO Angers after 18 months in which he even played for the championship with this team . Sansonetti had scored a total of 50 goals for his clubs since his professional debut, and had reached the semi-finals with Valenciennes in the 1964 Cup competition for the Coupe de France , but Angers sold him on after six months.

At the second division SEC Bastia he finally developed the required consistency of performance and with a total of 35 goals contributed to the fact that the Corsicans were serious contenders for promotion in two seasons - albeit ultimately unsuccessful. In the 1966/67 season he was even the top scorer in the second division. AC Ajaccio Étienne Sansonetti , who had been promoted to Bastia's place, then moved to the south of the island in 1967, and after the end of the first division season 1967/68 the striker was even able to receive the award as top scorer in Division 1 . With his 26 hits, he had left numerous well-known competitors for this trophy behind him, including Revelli and Keïta with Masters Saint-Étienne , Di Nallo and Guy near Lyon , "Joseph" near Marseille, Couécou near Bordeaux or Loubet with runners-up Nice  - played in significantly stronger teams. Sansonetti could never achieve this number of hits afterwards, neither in the second division, in which he wore the AS Monaco dress in 1969/70 , nor in the first, in which he then played again for AC Ajaccio for two years. In 1972 he moved within Ajaccio to the lower class GFCA , and in 1975 the now 39-year-old returned with this team for one last season in professional football, which he completed with "Gazélec" in a respectable midfield in Division 2 .

After a total of 219 point games with 84 hits in the first division and 146 appearances and 65 goals in the second division, he ended his long playing career in 1977.

Club stations

  • until 1954: US Endoume Marseille (as a teenager)
  • 1954–1958: Olympique Marseille B
  • 1958–1963: Olympique Marseille (1959–1962 in D2)
  • 1963-Dec 1964: US Valenciennes-Anzin
  • Jan. – Jun. 1965: SCO Angers
  • 1965–1967: SEC Bastia (in D2)
  • 1967-1969: AC Ajaccio
  • 1969/70: AS Monaco (in D2)
  • 1970-1972: AC Ajaccio
  • 1972–1976: Gazélec FC Ajaccio (lower class, only 1975/76 in D2)

Palmarès

  • Top scorer of the D1: 1967/68

literature

  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 1, p. 31
  2. ↑ Pécheral, p. 378
  3. ↑ Pécheral, p. 393
  4. ↑ a b all use and hit numbers for Sansonetti's first division stations according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  5. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 252
  6. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 167f.
  7. ↑ Times and numbers for Sansonetti's second division seasons according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links)
personal data
SURNAME Sansonetti, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2018