Antonio Abenoza

Antonio Abenoza (born September 1, 1926 in Alcolea ; † June 25, 1953 near Witry-lès-Reims ) was a Spanish football player who had come to France as a teenager .

Career

During and shortly after the Second World War , Antonio Abenoza played for ESA Brive , before he came to Stade Reims in 1946 and guarded the goal there in the second team . With this team he was French amateur champion in 1948; in the same season he also played his first league game for the Reims first division professionals when he represented regular goalkeeper Jacques Favre in a win in Metz . In the season 1948/49 he came to six more appearances in the first team and thus had a share in winning the first championship title of his club. In the following years, Abenoza was always there when coach Albert Batteux had to fall back on him because the new number one, Paul Sinibaldi , was not available. In the 1951/52 season even used in 13 games of Division 1 , then brought him second division AS Troyes-Savinienne as a regular goalkeeper.

About a month after completing his successful season with 31 league games, the 26-year-old Abenoza was sitting in the car that collided head-on with a truck just a few kilometers north of Reims on the dead straight Route Nationale 51 . None of the vehicle occupants involved survived the accident; Antonio Abenoza's wife, his brother-in-law Francis Méano and his wife were among the six fatalities .

Club stations

• until 1946: Étoile Sportive Aiglons Briviste
• 1946–1952: Stade de Reims
• 1952/53: Association Sportive de Troyes-Savinienne

Palmarès

• French amateur champion: 1948
• French champion: 1949

literature

• Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
• Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7