Abdelkader Ben Bouali

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Abdelkader Ben Bouali (born October 25, 1912 in Orléansville , † February 23, 1997 in Algiers ) was an Algerian football player who completed a significant period of his career in French football .

Club career

The defender Ben Bouali began his career at RU Algiers before he came to the French heartland - Algeria was then part of the French-ruled North Africa  . His first club there was the first division team SO Montpellier before he played for FC Sète from 1934 or 1935 .

In 1936 he moved to Olympique Marseille ; There he immediately became a regular under coach József Eisenhoffer in a team that had a number of outstanding footballers in its ranks (namely goalkeeper Vasconcelos , Weiskopf , Kohut and Zatelli and Aznar, two players who also came from Algeria). With this early "star ensemble" Olympiques, Abdelkader Ben Bouali won the championship title in his first season and also drew the attention of those responsible for the national team (see below) . In the following season his team could not defend this title, but only finished second in Division 1 behind FC Sochaux ; but she won the French Cup , and Ben Bouali was also in the final of the competition (2: 1 afterwards against FC Metz ) in the white OM jersey.

Nevertheless, he moved to Racing Paris in 1938 . However, this change did not materialize, although it had already been agreed between the clubs: a lawyer close to Olympique had given young men who wanted to be exempted from compulsory military service in the French army a corresponding certificate for a four-figure sum. After various cases were uncovered and brought to court, Ben Bouali was also sent to prison for a few days. His professional license was withdrawn, whereupon he played briefly for a team in Périgueux , which had been founded by former footballers from Racing Strasbourg , before he returned to Algeria and there for AS Orléansville and later again for RU Algiers. For the 1941/42 season, his name appears again in a source in the Toulouse FC team ; Whether this is a mistake or whether Ben Bouali briefly found a way back into French professional football during the chaos of war needs to be clarified.

Stations

  • Racing Universitaire Algérois
  • Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains
  • Football Club de Sète (1934 or 1935–1936)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1936–1938)
  • Périgueux
  • possibly Toulouse Football Club (1941/42)
  • Association Sportive de Orléansville
  • Racing Universitaire Algérois

In the national team

Abdelkader Ben Bouali played an A international for France in May 1937 ; at the 0-2 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir against Ireland , he formed the defender pair in an "experimental team" together with Raoul Diagne . At the 1938 World Cup , Ben Bouali was part of the French squad ; however, he was not used in either of the two games because Cazenave and team captain Mattler were set in defense at Sélectionneur Barreau and coach Cottenet .

Life after player time

Even while he was still playing for Orléansville and Algiers, Ben Bouali had worked in various companies in Algeria, most recently at a company in the hydraulics industry. Always a supporter of Olympique Marseille, he retired in 1979. At the age of 85, he died in a hospital in Algiers.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1937 (and runner-up in 1938)
  • French cup winner: 1938
  • 1 international match (no hit) for France; World Cup participant in 1938
  • 56 games (no goal) for Marseille in Division 1 (numbers for Montpellier and Sète cannot currently be determined)

literature

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

Remarks

  1. ^ All stations according to Pécheral, p. 421; for the time at Montpellier and Sète can be found in Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 134-137, no team squad or player numbers.
  2. ↑ Pécheral, p. 385
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 354
  4. ↑ Chapter “Les fausses réformes” in Pécheral, pp. 109–113.
  5. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 143
  6. ↑ Chaumier, p. 37
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 307f.
  8. ↑ Pécheral, p. 421
  9. ↑ Pécheral, p. 372

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personal data
SURNAME Ben Bouali, Abdelkader
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Orléansville
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1997
Place of death Algiers