Abdelaziz Ben Tifour

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Ben Tifour (1959)

Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (born July 25, 1927 in Hussein Dey , † November 19, 1970 near Draâ Ben Khedda ) was a French- Algerian football player.

Club career

Ben Tifour, mostly used as a half- forward or winger or side runner , began his adult career at ES Tunis and then CS Hammam-Lif in what is now Tunisia . Tunisia, like its homeland Algeria, was one of the five North African French colonies that were administratively départements of the French "motherland" and whose residents were considered French citizens. With Hammam-Lif, the technically talented, elegant, rather petite offensive player became regional cup winner in 1948 and possibly also the year before. It cannot be determined whether he was in the winning team in one or both finals. Then the first division OGC Nice took him under contract. With the Aiglons - the players of the OGC are still often referred to as "young eagles" - he quickly developed into a regular player, whose career in 1950/51 experienced a longer injury break. Nevertheless, he was on the Côte d'Azur at the end of this third season after an exciting neck-and-neck race in which Nice and the fifth in the table were only separated by one point and the better goal quotient against Lille Olympique of 1.59 to 1.33 the decisive factor, for the first time master . The following year the Aiglons were able to defend their title, and Abdelaziz Ben Tifour had become the focus of his team's attacking game. Towards the end of the season he was appointed to the French national team for the first time (see below ) . But the 1951/52 season had a third high point in store for him: In a high- scoring , fiercely contested, yet extraordinarily fair and sophisticated cup final , Ben Tifour scored the decisive goal after a good hour to make it 4: 3, with which the resistance of Girondins Bordeaux was finally broken (final score 5: 3) and OGC was only the fourth club to enter the list of French doublé winners. He also took part in the Coupe Latine in June 1952 , which Nice finished second after a 4-2 win over Sporting Lisbon and a 0-1 draw against FC Barcelona .

Due to the sale of several top performers, Nice fought for a long time against relegation in the following season, which could ultimately be avoided - but not so from Ben Tifour, who was transferred to relegated AS Troyes-Savinienne in the summer of 1954 . In the second division, however , the Algerian as the head of the team burned off a real firework: Troyes scored 101 goals, promptly returned to the footballing upper house and Ben Tifour traveled to Switzerland after the last matchday because of his performance for the World Cup finals. He almost reached another cup final this spring; however, Troyes had to bow 1: 2 to the eventual cup winners in the semifinals - and his name was OGC Nice. However, after AS Troyes went down again twelve months later, AS Monaco 1955 secured Ben Tifour's services.

The Monegasque developed under his directing skills to a top team, which finished the following years twice as third and once as fifth of Division 1 and at the end of April 1958 reached the cup semi-finals. In this, Ben Tifour, who had played the quarter-finals three weeks earlier, was no longer used: his career in French professional football ended abruptly between these two games (see below ) . In 1962 he returned to Algeria and played for USM Algiers , then coached the Algerian national team and the Jeunesse Sportive Kabylie . Abdelaziz Ben Tifour had a fatal accident in November 1970 on the way from his home in Algiers to Tizi Ouzou , where he wanted to lead the training of his club team.

Stations

  • Olympique de Hussein Dey (1939–1944, as a teenager)
  • Espérance Sportive de Tunis (1944-1946)
  • Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif (1946-1948)
  • Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice (1948–1953; 129 games / 34 goals in D1)
  • Association Sportive Troyes-Savinienne (1953–1955, of which only 1954/55 in D1; 31/9)
  • Association Sportive de Monaco (1955-14 April 1958; 86/13)
  • Union Sportive de la Médina Alger

The national player

Ben Tifour played four senior internationals for the French national team between May 1952 and October 1957 . He was part of the Bleus squad at the World Cup finals in Switzerland and played a game there - the 3-2 win against Mexico . For the 1958 World Cup, too , he was given good chances of being called up to the French squad again, until he made a personal decision in the spring that suddenly changed his life: from mid-April 1958 he played with his professional colleague Rachid Mekhloufi, among others ( AS Saint-Étienne ) and Mustapha Zitouni (also at AS Monaco) for an Algerian national selection that was launched by the Front de Liberation Nationale , the liberation movement in the fight against French rule , and for propaganda reasons in the following years in particular occurred in countries of the Third World and the Eastern Bloc . The French Football Association immediately banned the professionals involved for life, and their clubs terminated their contracts without notice. Unlike Mekhloufi, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour did not return to the French league after the end of the (civil) war ( Évian Agreement , 1962).

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1951, 1952
  • French cup winner : 1952
  • Tunisian Cup Winner (today unofficial title): 1947 (?), 1948
  • 4 international A matches for France, one each during his time at Nice and Troyes, and two at Monaco
  • 246 games and 56 goals in Division 1

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet (2002): Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • Hubert Beaudet (2003): La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2004): La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2007): Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4
  • Michel Nait-Challal: Dribbleurs de l'indépendance. L'incroyable histoire de l'équipe de football du FLN algérien. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2008 ISBN 978-2-9164-0032-7

Remarks

  1. ↑ Nait-Challal, p. 62
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 37
  3. ↑ Beaudet (2002), p. 44 f
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2007), p. 368; Beaudet (2003), p. 68, praises this endgame in even higher tones
  5. ↑ Nait-Challal, pp. 210-212.
  6. ↑ 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Ben Tifour, Abdelaziz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Algerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hussein Dey
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1970
Place of death at Draâ Ben Khedda