Anne Zenoni
Anne Zenoni (born March 26, 1971 in Albi ) is a former French football player .
Club career
As a teenager and young woman, Anne Zenoni first played for the post sports club in her native city, the ASPTT Albi. From there, the Toulouse OAC brought her to the capital of the region in 1991 , and in her first season she also became a national player (see below) . When the French football federation FFF with the 1992/93 season a single national first division introduced, the Toac was one of the twelve other qualifying clubs, however, rose already at the end of this season it off.
From 1994 first class again, the time in which the Toulouserinnen the started women's football dominated in France, and Anne Zenoni was composed during its ascent with the defender Gaëlle Blouin one of the leaders of the women's organization, not only for their mostly younger teammates as Elodie Woock , Sabrina Viguier and later, for example, Lilas Traïkia . She played in the position of a " hanging striker ", so she did not appear as a goal scorer, but distributed the balls to the strikers of her team. In 1995 - as a climber - and in 1997 Toulouse won the runner-up before the women became French champions for the first time in 1999 . Zenoni's team repeated this success over the next two years. When the French professional footballers union UNFP presented its award for the best player of the season for women for the first time in 2001 , Zenoni was the first woman to win the title.
In 2001 the club did not want to go along with the cautious professionalization of women's football announced by the FFF for the coming year; Therefore, TOAC's department completely joined the local rivals FC Toulouse - and the players won their fourth championship in a row in the new dress. In the same season they were also victorious in the newly created national cup competition, making them the first doublé winners in France. In the final against FC Lyon , however, Anne Zenoni was absent due to injury, and she then ended her career at least in the top division. After returning to her hometown, the now 35-year-old played competitive games for third division club ASPTT Albi in the 2006/07 season . In Albi she currently works (2014) as a physical education teacher.
Stations
- Association Sportive de la PTT Albi (until 1991)
- Toulouse Olympique Aérospatial Club (1991-2001)
- Toulouse Football Club (2001/02)
- ASPTT Albi (at least 2006/07)
In the national team
In the French senior women's team, Anne Zenoni made her debut in March 1992, when national coach Aimé Mignot considered her in the starting line-up in a friendly match against Norway two days after her 21st birthday . She became the undisputed regular player at the Bleues from the 1995/96 season and remained so for a total of 50 international matches - the last of which in July 2001 - even under Mignot's successor, Elisabeth Loisel . Even in this group, she was more of a template for the storm peaks, namely Marinette Pichon and Angélique Roujas , but still scored six goals in the national jersey , two of them against Ireland and the USA in the mid-1990s and two more against Sweden and England in 2000 .
Anne Zenoni took part in two European championship finals, in which the French women had to return home after the preliminary round. At the tournament in Norway and Sweden in 1997 she played all three French games, in 2001 in Germany she was missing in the preliminary round match against Denmark and was substituted there in her last international match against Italy only in the 90th minute of the game.
She also met the women's teams from Switzerland (three matches in 1997, 1999 and 2001), Austria and Germany (both 1999) and only lost to the latter.
Palmarès
- French champion: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 (and runner-up 1995, 1997)
- French cup winner: 2002 (without her own final game)
- 50 senior internationals, 6 goals for France
- Best player in the French premier league: 2001/02
literature
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
- Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2
Web links
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 70
- ↑ see Zenonis data sheet at footofeminin.fr (under web links )
- ↑ see Zenoni's entry at copainsdavant
- ↑ after Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 261-269
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zenoni, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Albi |