Emmanuel Aznar

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Emmanuel Aznar (born December 23, 1915 in Sidi-Bel-Abbès , † October 4, 1970 in Marseille ) was a French football player .

Player career

"Manu" Aznar, whose family was of Spanish descent, came in 1936 from SC Bel-Abbès , from North Africa , which was then under French control , to the first division Olympique Marseille in France. There he was in a team with several other pieds-noirs such as Zatelli , Ben Barek and Ben Bouali , to whose internationality the Brazilian goalkeeper "Jaguar" Vasconcelos as well as the Hungarians Kohut , Weiskopf and coach Eisenhoffer contributed. Aznar was known because of his particularly hard shot as "the man who tears up goal nets", which he actually managed at least in the cup final of 1943. In 1937, at the end of his first season with Marseille, he was already champion , a year later also cup winner for the first time .

Although he preferred to act as a somewhat withdrawn half- forward and not as a center forward, he was one of the most accurate goalscorer Olympique has ever had: in 169 games he scored 118 goals. This, however, includes the hits that he got during the "War Championships" (1939-1945) , which were mostly held in separate seasons for the occupied and the "free" part of the country, and therefore - in contrast to the cup competition - nowadays in official statistics are not taken into account. In the cup semi-finals in 1940 he scored five goals against RC Lens . During this time, he set another unofficial record when he scored nine goals in a 20-2 win against AS Avignon in October 1942 , the first eight of them in a row, before leaving the field after 66 minutes due to an injury. He was particularly well represented in the top scorer list in 1938/39 (5th place with 16 hits) and 1942/43 (1st place in Division 1-Sud with 45 goals) Aznar was also in three of the four cup finals he played, successful: in 1938 he made the decisive 2-1 in extra time against FC Metz , in 1940 the temporary lead in the 1: 2 against Racing Paris and in 1943 he even scored two goals (1: 0 and 3: 0) in the 4: 0 in the replay against Girondins AS du Port , which gave him his second Coupe de France . In the 1940s he was also Marseille's team captain, also in 1943/44, when, under political pressure, regional selections, the so-called Équipes fédérales , fought for the championship and the cup across France instead of the club teams .

In March 1938 he played his only international match for the Équipe tricolore in a 6-1 against Bulgaria ; In this circle, too, Emmanuel Aznar promptly scored a goal to make it 5-1. Strong competitors in the attack positions (namely Aston , Heisserer , Jean Nicolas , Veinante and Koranyi ) and from 1939/40 the war and occupation of France prevented, not only for him, further missions in the dress of the Bleus for years .

After the end of the war he was only a substitute player at Olympique Marseille, but in 1947/48 contributed six more goals to winning the French championship again in just eight league appearances. In 1949/50 and 1950/51 Aznar had no point games - in Gunnar Andersson Olympique had an excellent new striker - but in 1951/52 coach Roessler used him again in eleven games. This season, however, Marseille was able to prevent relegation to the second division only in the Barrages ; then he ended his playing career and earned his income in the shoe industry. Emmanuel Aznar died at the age of 54, wearing an Olympique Marseille shirt, when his wrist broke open during a game of the old men’s team .

Stations

  • Sporting Club de Bel-Abbès (until 1936)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1936-1943)
  • Équipe Fédérale Marseille-Provence (1943/44)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1944–1952)

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1937, 1948 (and runner-up in 1938, 1939), also champion of the D1-Sud 1941 (unofficial title)
  • French cup winner: 1938, 1943 (and finalist 1940)
  • 1 international match (1 hit) for France

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: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 .
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 .
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 385f.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 136 and 359; this unstoppable shot were many moviegoers in the Pathé - newsreel marvel.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 136
  4. ↑ Pécheral, p. 372
  5. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 162
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 136
  7. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 140 and 144
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 354, 356 and 359; Pécheral, p. 420
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Histoire, p. 307
  10. ↑ Chaumier, p. 23
  11. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 388-390.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 136

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personal data
SURNAME Aznar, Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Sidi-Bel-Abbès
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1970
Place of death Marseille