André Chorda

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André Chorda (born February 20, 1938 in Charleval , Bouches-du-Rhône department , † June 18, 1998 ) was a French football player .

In his clubs

The left defender signed his first professional contract with OGC Nice in 1957, when he was 19 , for whom he had already played as a youth. There he developed into a combative defensive player who liked to take the offensive, and into a crowd favorite. Sometimes he could get nickely if he feared that a technically good opponent was trying to make a fool of him. Regularly used in his first season in Division 1 , he was runner-up with Nice; a year later, in 1959, the team won the championship title and qualified for the European Cup . In this competition, André Chorda was involved in one of the "historic hours" of French club football, in which the OGC was 2-0 behind in the quarter-final first leg against four-time cup winners Real Madrid at the Stade du Ray after 26 minutes and the game in the second half could still turn. Despite this 3-2 success, Real made everything clear in the second leg with 4-0 and ultimately won the fifth play of the European Cup. A few weeks after this sporting highlight, the defender was also appointed to the senior national team for the first time .

In 1962 Chorda moved to Girondins Bordeaux ; This team, equipped with many talents - including a striker , Héctor De Bourgoing , who had also been his teammate in Nice at the end of the 1950s - played an important role in the league and cup , but the player was unable to increase his collection of titles in the following seven years . The Girondins were runner-up three times (1965, 1966, 1969) and were also three times in the cup final in 1964, 1968 and 1969 - but each time André Chorda left the field as a loser (0: 2 against Olympique Lyon , 1: 2 against AS Saint-Étienne and 0: 2 against Olympique Marseille ). In the 1968 final against ASSE, the Girondins quickly took a 1-0 lead, had to accept the equalization by Mekhloufi before the break, but subsequently dominated their opponent without using their scoring opportunities - but in the 77th minute Chorda fouled Hervé Revelli in the penalty area, and Mekhloufi converted the subsequent penalty . "I had already chased the ball from Revelli when it stumbled!" The defender raved years later.

In 1969 André Chorda returned to OGC Nice, who had just been relegated to Division 2 . A year later, the club returned as the second division champions in the upper house of football, and at the end of the 1972/73 season Chorda was runner-up for the fifth time in his career. In 1973/74 there were six more games on the European stage : after Nice had thrown FC Barcelona and Fenerbahçe Istanbul out of the competition, 1. FC Köln prevailed against the Aiglons in the round of 16 . In 1974, the now 36-year-old player ended his professional career.

Stations

  • Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice (1957–1962)
  • Girondins de Bordeaux (1962–1969)
  • Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice (1969–1974, of which 1969/70 in D2 )

In the national team

Between March 1960 (against Chile ) and November 1966 André Chorda played 24 internationals for the Équipe tricolore ; he did not succeed in this circle. From the end of 1962 he was a regular at the Bleus . He was in the French squad for the European Championship finals in 1960 , where he was used in the game for 3rd place (0-2 against the ČSSR ). He was also part of the French squad at the 1966 World Cup , but surprisingly he was not used by trainer Henri Guérin in England, although he was always in the starting line- up in the remaining seven international matches of the year, including under Guérin's successors Snella and Arribas .

Life after football

After retiring, Chorda worked as a representative for the sporting goods manufacturer Le Coq Sportif . He died in 1998.

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1959 (and runner-up in 1958, 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1973)
  • French cup winner : Nothing (but finalist in 1964, 1968 and 1969)
  • European Cup: 18 appearances, 1 hit, of which 11/0 with Nice and 7/1 with Bordeaux
  • 24 full internationals, no goal, 2 of them in his time at Nice and 22 at Bordeaux
  • 484 games and 18 goals in Division 1 , including 264/5 for Nice and 220/13 for Bordeaux

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: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 75
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 288
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France , p. 384
  4. ↑ 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. 325/326
  5. ↑ 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, n.d.; according to http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur9341.html only 12 hits for Bordeaux.

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personal data
SURNAME Chorda, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleval
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1998