Abderrahmane Soukhane

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Abderrahmane Soukhane (born September 13, 1936 in El Biar , Algeria , † July 5, 2015 there ) was an Algerian - French football player . To distinguish it from his older brother Mohamed , he was also referred to as Soukhane II .

Club career

Abderrahmane Soukhane played as a youth for JS El Biar in his homeland, which at that time still belonged to France. When he was not yet 20 years old, he moved to the second division Le Havre AC in 1956 , in whose league team he was mostly used as a half- forward. The northern French ended this and the following season in the top third of the table, but without reaching a promotion place. In the summer of 1958 there was an abrupt interruption in his career in French football: Soukhane, like many other Algerian professional footballers, had decided to play for the selection team of the Algerian independence movement (FLN) in order to promote the independence of the French colony. A year later he belonged, like his brother, to the core formation of this unofficial Algerian national team, with which he went on two extended tours in particular to East Asia and Eastern Europe.

After Algerian independence (1962) he returned to France and was welcomed with open arms at Le Havre, which had just been relegated to Division 2 . In the 1963/64 season Soukhane was even the most successful league hunter, but his 21 goals were still not enough for promotion. Therefore - and because the club withdrew into the amateur field - he accepted an offer from the first division club Toulouse FC , where he was among others with the Algerians Kader Firoud (as coach) and Mahi Khennane in the squad. The 1965/66 season was particularly successful: The TFC finished fourth in the championship and reached the semi-finals in the state cup . In this game against Racing Strasbourg Soukhane scored the opening goal early, but had to take the place between the posts before the half-time break for his goalkeeper who had been sent off the field and could not prevent the equalizer in the final minute; in the extension, the Alsatian attackers overcame him two more times. In this unfamiliar position, too, he was certified as having performed well, especially since he was not lacking in commitment: He ended the heated, contested encounter with split lips and the loss of four teeth.

1966/67 Abderrahmane Soukhane took part with the TFC in the fair cup , where the TFC failed after a bye for the first round with 3: 0 and 1: 5 to Dinamo Piteşti ; Soukhane scored two of his team's four goals. After Toulouse had dissolved its professional division in the summer of 1967 and sold his place in Division 1 to Red Star Paris , Soukhane also moved to this club, but only stayed there for one season. He then went to Algeria to USM Bel-Abbès .

Soukhane died in his hometown at the age of 78 after a serious illness. His former club Le Havre AC has inducted him into its “ Hall of Fame ”.

Stations

  • Jeunesse Sportive d'El Biar (until 1956)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1956–1958, in D2)
  • FLN selection (August 1958–1962)
  • Le Havre Athletic Club (1962–1964, in D2)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1964-1967)
  • Red Star Football Club (1967/68)
  • Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel-Abbès

In the national team

Abderrahmane Soukhane not only played for the FLN football team , but from 1963 also for the officially recognized Algerian A-team . For this he was on the pitch six times up to 1965, including all four early highlights of the Fennecs ("Desert Foxes" is the common name for Algeria's national team), namely in February 1963 in a 4-0 win against Czechoslovakia , with Soukhane scoring the first goal scored, on New Year's Day 1964 in a 2-0 win against Germany , in November of the same year against the USSR (2-2) and in June 1965 in a 3-0 win against Brazil . On both teams he played with some of the best Algerian professional footballers of the time, including Mekhloufi , Zitouni , Ben Tifour , Kermali , Maouche and Oudjani .

Palmarès

  • French Cup: semi-finalist 1966
  • 6 international matches (1 hit) for Algeria
  • 120 games and 20 goals in Division 1 , 88/17 for Toulouse, 32/3 for Red Star
  • 110 games and 58 goals in Division 2
  • D2 top scorer 1963/64 (21 hits)

literature

  • Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the article " Abderrahamane Soukhane, membre de l'équipe FLN, nous quitte ( memento of July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )" of July 6, 2015 at Tout sur l'Algérie, accessed on July 8, 2015
  2. ^ Nait-Challal, p. 159
  3. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 98; L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 382
  4. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , pp. 386/387
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 325 and 342; only one hit, according to Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007] ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 243
  6. ^ François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , p. 282
  7. ↑ a b Barreaud, p. 81
  8. ↑ Soukhanes entry on hac-foot.com
  9. ^ Equipe Nationale Amical Algérie 4-0 Tchécoslovaquie ( Memento of March 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ evaluated for 1963 to 1971 ( Memento from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ 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.
personal data
SURNAME Soukhane, Abderrahmane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soukhane II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH El Biar , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2015
Place of death El Biar , Algeria