Didier Angibeaud

Didier Angibeaud
Personnel
Surname	Didier Angibeaud Nguidjol
birthday	October 8, 1974
place of birth	Douala ,  Cameroon
size	183 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1987-1991	AC Le Havre
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1995	AC Le Havre B	50 (14)
1993-1994	AC Le Havre	17 0(0)
1995-1996	FC Istres	27 0(7)
1996-1997	Toulon SC	28 0(3)
1997-1998	OGC Nice	28 0(1)
1998-2001	SK Sturm Graz	23 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-1999	Cameroon	6 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Didier Angibeaud Nguidjol (born October 8, 1974 in Douala ) is a former Cameroonian football player . In 2001, at the age of 26, he had to end his playing career prematurely due to a serious knee injury.

With the SK Sturm Graz he was in 1999 Austrian triple winner , in 1998 he took the national team of Cameroon at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in part.

Club career

Angibeaud , born in Douala in 1974, emigrated to France with his family in the mid-1980s and began his playing career as a youth at AC Le Havre .

From 1991 he was in the B-team of Le Havre before he made his professional debut on March 7, 1993 in a 3-0 away win in the French soccer cup against Le Touquet AC . After nine goals in nine games for the B team, he rose six months later under coach Guy David to the professional team and came in a row to seventeen appearances in Division 1 , in which he was denied the breakthrough. Angibeaud, then still a striker , had to contend with the great competition in the form of the seeded Joël Tiéhi and the then aspiring Ibrahim Ba , which he could never displace, and did not score a single goal of the season. For the following season he was considered a failed talent and was deported back to the B team.

With no prospect of returning to the professional team, he then left Le Havre and moved to the 1995/96 season in the Championnat de France National for FC Istres . In Istres he was subsequently converted into an attacking midfielder, which turned out to be a stroke of luck for both the player and the club. With seven goals in 27 games this season, he advanced to the team's top performers alongside the also highly talented Julien Rodriguez and failed with the club just short of promotion to Division 2 .

As one of the best players in the league, Angibeaud could not be held for Istres and moved to CFN champions Sporting Toulon the following season . In the ambitious Toulon, which had also committed the old stars Stéphane Demol and Jean-Marc Ferreri at considerable financial expense , he was able to establish himself in a professional team for the first time. He mainly acted as a puller from the midfield, from which the storm duo Ferreri / Moses , which together scored 28 goals, profited. Contrary to the strong offensive, however, a weak defensive performance caused the season's goal to be clearly missed, whereupon the expensive team fell apart again.

Angibeaud was also among the departures and moved to first division relegated OGC Nice . Although he played in a row for the team coached by Belgian Michel Renquin again in a club that lagged far behind his possibilities, he was considered one of the few winners due to strong performance and was nominated for the final squad for the 1998 World Cup in Cameroon his adopted country of France.

After the World Cup, in which he was used in all three preliminary round matches in his country, he was presented as the "king transfer" of the reigning Austrian champions SK Sturm Graz , despite a negative fitness test . Previously, a move to Ligue 1 had failed due to the insecure physical condition of the player, which gave Sturm the chance for a commitment. President Kartnig himself, who absolutely wanted to present a star after winning the first championship title in the club's history, gave the order to ignore the fitness level without discussing this with coach Ivica Osim . Osim, in turn, subsequently stated that he did not need the player at all, as the well-functioning midfield from the previous season could be held together.

Nonetheless, Angibeaud developed into one of the better commitments of the era, played good games when fit and became something of a crowd favorite. In his debut season he was a member of the most successful Sturm team in the club's history, won the Austrian triple and celebrated his first entry into the Champions League . Due to his susceptibility to injury, however, he only came to 14 league appearances with one goal and two missions without a goal at European level. In the 1999/2000 season he was injured in only seven league appearances and one in the Champions League on the ball before he had to end his career in the spring of 2001 due to chronic knee problems.

National team

After he was promoted to national team player in 1997 after strong performances at the club, he was appointed by coach Claude Le Roy to his country's final squad for the 1998 World Cup in France.

There he came in the first round game against Chile , after a red card for defender Rigobert Song at the score of 1: 1, as a midfield stabilizer for Salomon Olembé in the game. In the second round game, the 3-0 defeat against Italy , he was then, as in the last group game, before the early elimination against Austria in his team's starting line-up. In the game against Austria he was one of the strongest players in Cameroon.

After the World Cup, he was twice in the national team before he could no longer play for his country due to his sudden end to his career.

Others

After the end of his career, he was indirectly involved in the transfers of Amadou Rabihou and Thierry Tazemeta to Austria . Both came on his recommendation for a trial training at Sturm, Rabihou being committed by Sturm and Tazemeta was discovered by Rupert Marko during his audition and brought to SV Horn .

successes

• 1 × Austrian champions : 1999
• 1 × Austrian Cup : 1999
• 1 × Austrian Supercup : 1999
• 1 × Austrian runner-up : 2000

Participation:

• 1 × Football World Cup 1998
• 2 × UEFA Champions League : 1999, 2000

Web links

• Didier Angibeaud in the database of FIFA (English)
• Player profile at OGCNissa.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I feel pain, but I still play ( memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. powerworld.at, accessed on November 13, 2010 
2. ↑ Les années 90…: 1996-97 (French) sportingtoulonvar.fr, accessed on November 13, 2010
3. ↑ Match Report: Chile-Cameroon 1: 1 ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fifa.com, accessed November 12, 2010  
4. ↑ Match Report: Italy-Cameroon 3: 1 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fifa.com, accessed November 12, 2010  
5. ↑ Match Report: Cameroon-Austria 1: 1 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fifa.com, accessed November 12, 2010  
6. ↑ Ahmadou Rabihou: "Le regard sur nous change" (French) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. camfoot.com, accessed November 13, 2010  
7. ↑ Paschings "Speedway Striker"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 10.6 MB) thierryfidjeutazemeta.com, accessed on November 13, 2010