Bernard Rahis

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Bernard Rahis (born February 12, 1933 in Blida , † March 16, 2008 in Corsica ) was a French football player .

Club career

The left winger , born in Algeria , which was still French at the time, was part of the squad of the first division team Olympique Nîmes from 1954 and developed into a regular player in his first season; a year later he also appeared for the first time in the list of the most successful scorers in Division 1 (eleventh place with 15 goals). For the season, Kader Firoud , who himself had worn the jersey of the "crocodiles" for six years - this nickname for the club later became its heraldic animal - took over the training management and expanded with players like Maurice Lafont , Ginès Liron , like Rahis Blida from Abdelkader Mazzouz and Hassan Akesbi successively on a team that could not only complete in the middle of the table. At the beginning of the 1957/58 season , Henri Skiba and Salah Djebaïli, two other strong offensive players, were signed, this concept worked: Olympique was runner-up behind Stade Reims , and Bernard Rahis himself, as the twelfth-best league scorer with 14 goals, contributed significantly to this success. In the same season, Nîmes was also in the cup final , but had - playing 75 minutes to ten - also let Reims go first (final score 1: 3). 1958/59 Nîmes finished the season again in second place, this time behind OGC Nice . Another year later , it was Reims again that dashed the Crocodiles' hopes for a league title ; the team had led the table for a long time and with a clear lead. Bernard Rahis, who has meanwhile also become a national player, even scored his highest number of hits in a single season with 20 goals (fourth best scorer in the league).

Olympique Nîmes was very close to a major success two more times during Rahis' time there. In 1961 the team reached the cup final again , but like three years earlier they lost it, this time against UA Sedan-Torcy , with 1: 3. And in Division 1 , she led the table before the last matchday in 1962 , then lost her decisive game - of all things due to a hit by her former teammate Skiba - and had to let Reims and Racing Paris pass in the final accounts . Two years after this last disappointment, Bernard Rahis left the "tragic eternal runner-up" for whom he had scored 104 goals in 241 top division points. In the 1963/64 season he played for the Swiss national league team Servette Geneva , with whom he reached fourth place, and then returned to the French professional game. But his engagement with the second division OSC Lille was short-lived; after seven missions in which he had managed four goals, he moved to the amateur league club FC Annecy and ended his active career there in 1966.

He then managed a parquet manufacturing company. After a complicated heart operation (1982) he had to retire from working life.

Stations

  • 1954–1963: Olympique Nîmes
  • 1963/64: Servette Geneva
  • 1964/65: OSC Lille (in D2)
  • Early 1965-1966: FC Annecy (amateur)

In the national team

The "assertive and fast winger" Rahis played the first of his three senior internationals for France in a friendly against Spain in December 1959 , when he came on shortly after half-time for the injured Yvon Douis . In March 1960 he was in the starting line-up and scored the 2-1 goal in the 4-2 win over Austria in the Prater Stadium - the game secured the French among the last four teams in the first European championship in their own country  . But his hope of being part of the French squad there was dashed. He was only used again in April 1961, again against Spain.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing (but runner-up in 1958, 1959, 1960)
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but finalist 1958, 1961)

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

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard RAHIS. thinesclaude.com, accessed November 1, 2012 (French).
  2. ↑ see, also for the following seasons, Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 154-162 
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 374
  4. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 155
  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 o. J.
  6. ↑ according to the data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  7. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 250
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 321
personal data
SURNAME Rahis, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Blida
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2008
Place of death Corsica