Abderrahmane Boubekeur

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Abderrahmane Boubekeur (born March 13, 1931 in Algiers , † 1998 on the Côte d'Azur ) was an Algerian - French football player and coach .

Club career

Abderrahmane Boubekeur, who was born in Algeria, which was then part of France, began his sporting career as a goalkeeper at AS Saint-Eugène , a club in his native city. At the age of 23, AS Monaco signed him for their team , which was competing in the highest French professional league , together with Mustapha Zitouni , who had also played for Saint-Eugène for a while. The 1954/55 season closed the Monegasque only on a lower midfield, but for the following season the team strengthened with Raymond Bellot and Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , also Algerians, on. Together with Stéphane Bruey, these two ensured more attack pressure, while Boubekeur and center runner Zitouni provided the team's defensive support. The goalkeeper had a penetrating voice and was occasionally prone to choleric outbursts , which his teammates feared. In 1956 as third and 1957 as fifth in Division 1 , Monaco played for the championship title . Also in the 1957/58 season, the team were among the favorites, having been able to sign other strong players in Raymond Kaelbel , Léon Glovacki and Michel Hidalgo . For Boubekeur, however, this upswing went hand in hand with the loss of his regular place because his competitor Enrico Alberto had been increasingly preferred to him since 1957.

On the second weekend in April 1958, a few game days before the end of the season, Abderrahmane Boubekeur secretly left the Principality with his teammates Ben Tifour, Zitouni, Kaddour Bekhloufi and Hacène Chabri for North Africa. Like many other Algerian professional footballers, they had decided to play for the selection team of the Algerian independence movement (FLN) in order to promote the independence of the French colony. As soon as this departure became known, AS Monaco terminated their player contracts without notice and the association withdrew their licenses. During the Algerian War between 1958 and 1962, this “independence elf” played a good 80 encounters in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Boubekeur was part of their regular formation until the end of May 1959 and guarded the goal in about half of their games; then he suffered a serious knee injury at a game in Romania , which required an operation and resulted in a long convalescence . After Algeria became independent in 1962, he settled in Algiers and played for the USM and MC Algiers there .

Stations

  • Association Sportive de Saint-Eugène Alger
  • Association Sportive de Monaco (1954 – April 1958)
  • FLN selection (April 1958 - autumn 1959)
  • Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger
  • Mouloudia Club Algérois

In the national team

In addition to his games for the only unofficial national selection, Abderrahmane Boubekeur was also a regular goalkeeper in Algeria's A-Elf in official international matches from 1963 . He played regularly in the circle of several of his FLN comrades-in-arms who formed the framework of the Fennecs - "Desert Foxes" is a common name for the local national team. Boubekeur's exact number of international matches cannot yet be determined; But he was actively involved in three of the very early Algerian "football star hours": on February 28, 1963 in a 4-0 win against Czechoslovakia , on January 1, 1964 in a 2-0 win against Germany and on November 4, 1964 in a 2-2 win the USSR . In this game he was very happy to face his idol Lev Yashin on the field.

Palmarès

  • The number of A-internationals for Algeria has not yet been determined exactly
  • 68 or 69 games in Division 1 for Monaco

Life after the player career

Boubekeur initially trained three club teams with CC Algiers , NA Hussein Dey and JS Kabylie . He then founded a fish trading company in the port of Algiers, which he gradually expanded: first he bought a trawler and also got into fishing, later also into the export business. In 1998 Abderrahmane Boubekeur died while on vacation on the Côte d'Azur .

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • 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
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. a b Nait-Challal, p. 235
  2. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 157-159.
  3. For Beaudet, p. 60, only Boubekeur, Ben Tifour and Zitouni are worthy of mention.
  4. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 278
  5. Nait-Challal, pp. 148f. and 159
  6. Nait-Challal, p. 202
  7. Nait-Challal, pp. 204f.
  8. ↑ Listings of the USSR game from http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/history/1964_07.html
  9. 68 missions 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, n.d.; 69 games according to Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 72