Abderrahman Ibrir

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Abderrahman Ibrir (born November 10, 1919 in Dellys , Kabylia , † 1990 in Algeria), also spelled Abderrahmane Ibrir, was an Algerian - French football player who also worked as a national coach for a short time after his active time .

Club career

Ibrir began playing football in Algeria, which was then part of France, at SCU El Biar and AST Algiers as a middle runner . Just before he came to mainland France at the age of 28 , he had developed a taste for the role of goalkeeper . In this position he developed into a player who was praised for his accurate kicks and the very long throws; he played matter-of-factly, calmly and had a keen eye for the situation. In season 1947/48 he was the Zweitdivisionär Girondins AS du Port under contract, which indeed missed a league fifth the rise in the National Cup but without conceding a goal - not even against the class higher RC Lens  - to the quarterfinals pushed forward. There the only goal that Ibrir conceded in this competition, then against SR Colmar, meant the end for Bordeaux. From 1948 he guarded the gate at the first division club FC Toulouse . His first season there ended the "Téfécé" - the short form of the club in France - in ninth place in the table. 1949/50 was Ibrir's most successful season: in the championship he landed in fourth place with his team, had conceded the second fewest goals and became a national player (see below) .

When the Téfécé surprisingly had to relegate in 1951, Abderrahman Ibrir moved to Olympique Marseille . The team of trainer Henri Roessler had with Gunnar Andersson also an outstanding scorer, but not enough quality overall, so that they had to go to the barrages against the second division US Valenciennes in the summer to keep the class. After an away 1: 3, it was especially the duo Ibrir / Andersson who secured the further league membership for the southern French with a 4: 0 in the second leg. The following season Olympique finished sixth in the table. In the summer of 1953, Ibrir was injured so badly that he could only follow the 1953/54 season from the reserve bank. As a result, he also missed an appearance in the cup final, in which Marseille OGC Nice lost 2-1. He then ended his professional career and returned to Toulouse .

He was already 40 when he ran again for a soccer team: in 1959 or 1960 he played a few matches in the goal of the FLN soccer team . This unofficial national team of his native country, which was essentially formed from former professional footballers during the Algerian War, played around 80 games in Africa, Europe and Asia between 1958 and 1962 to promote the independence of the French colony. After this had been achieved and the Algerian Football Association was founded, Abderrahman Ibrir coached the national team of Algeria from 1964 to 1965 .

Stations

  • Sporting Club Union d'El Biar
  • AST Algiers (until 1947)
  • Girondins Association Sportive du Port de Bordeaux (1947/48, in D2)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1948–1951)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1951–1954)

In the national team

Between October 1949 and November 1950 Abderrahman Ibrir guarded the goal of the French senior team in six international matches . Because the chairman of the association's selection committee, Paul Nicolas , was cross with regular goalkeeper Julien Darui and his deputy René Vignal had not previously convinced, Ibrir received the trust of the officials. The importance of his first two appearances was high: they were two qualifying games for the World Cup in Brazil against Yugoslavia . Both encounters ended 1: 1; even in the decisive game in Florence that was then necessary , it was a draw after 90 minutes. Shortly before the end of extra time, Yugoslav striker Željko Čajkovski fired a shot from an "impossible angle", which - out of reach for the goalkeeper - was deflected and meant the 2: 3 final score. France's number 1 then said about this hit: "If Čajkovski would repeat this shot a hundred times, he would not convert it a hundred times". After two more internationals, Ibrir's international career for France ended.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but finalist 1954 [without commitment])
  • 6 international appearances for France
  • 130 games in Division 1 , 99 for Toulouse, 31 for Marseille

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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • 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
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 164
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 364
  3. ↑ Pécheral, p. 146f.
  4. ↑ Pécheral, p. 435
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 370
  6. ↑ Nait-Challal, p. 10
  7. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 196
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 76 and 312
  9. ↑ Quotation from L'Équipe from December 13, 1949, printed in L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 77
  10. ↑ after 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 Ibrir, Abderrahman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibrir, Abderrahmane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Algerian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Dellys , Kabylia, Algeria
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Algeria