Georges Carnus

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Georges Carnus (born August 13, 1942 in Gignac-la-Nerthe , Bouches-du-Rhône ) is a former French football goalkeeper .

In the club

Georges Carnus grew up on the southern outskirts of Marignane ; at Union Sportive there , he also began playing football. At the age of just 17, he moved to AS Aix . There he developed into an athletic, calm and sure-footed goalkeeper and made his first appearances in the second division in 1960/61 . After Aix 'last place in the table at the end of this season, the capital club Stade Français signed him .

In his first year there he was not a regular goalkeeper, but from the season 1962/63 he missed almost no game during the following five years. His team landed four times in a row only in 15th place in the final table of Division 1 , but this mediocrity was apparently only a small part of Carnus, because he was appointed to the French senior team for the first time in the spring of 1963. In the national cup competition Stade Français succeeded in the season 1964/65 to advance to the semifinals, where he was subject to the UA Sedan-Torcy . When the club came back as League 20 in 1967. Had to relegate to Division 2, brought the newly signed successful coach Albert Batteux Georges Carnus to the newly crowned master AS Saint-Étienne .

With the Verts ("the Greens" and ASSE are two common names for the footballers from the industrial city of Saint-Étienne ) Carnus immediately became the backing of a team that was eager to attack, with whom he won three championship titles and twice the Coupe de France over the next four years won, in 1968 and 1970 even both titles in the same season and thus twice the doublé . With Bereta , Bosquier , Herbin , Jacquet , Keïta , Larqué , Mekhloufi and Hervé Revelli, this team comprised more than half the national team, which in 1969 were joined by other talented players with Lopez , Repellini , Patrick Revelli , Santini and Sarramagna . In the 1969/70 European Cup , Carnus was in the spotlight when he kept his goal clean after a 2-0 defeat at Bayern Munich in the second leg (3-0), enabling his team to advance to the next round. In 1970 he helped to  bring about the highest cup final victory of all time (5-0 against FC Nantes - this national record still exists in 2007) and was voted France's Footballer of the Year for the first time .

In the early summer of 1971, he left ASSE, which was as surprising as it was media-rich. A few game days before the end of the season - the team were two points ahead of first place and were preparing to win the fifth championship title in a row - the goalkeeper and his teammate Bernard Bosquier were told in a daily newspaper that they wanted to change, which at least the latter vehemently denied. Thereupon the club president Roger Rocher immediately threw both players from the squad and accepted that the Verts only finished the season as runner-up behind Olympique Marseille , which the two slaughtered then joined. This process strained the relationship between the two clubs in the south of France for many years.

Also with Marseille, Georges Carnus won the doublé at the end of his first season - Skoblar , Magnusson and Gress also stood out from a good team - and despite the change he remained No. 1 in the national team. At the end of 1971 he was also named Footballer of the Year again. The two titles from 1972 were his last, however: in 1973 Olympique was at least third in the championship, a year later, however, only twelfth in the table. This last season he experienced a sporting low point in his career, when they got 6-0 in the UEFA Cup second leg at 1. FC Köln . Shortly after the last game day of Division 1 , Carnus was hit by a stroke of fate (see below ) , which left him hanging on his goalkeeper gloves from one day to the next at the age of only 31.

Stations

  • Union Sportive de Marignane (1950-1959)
  • Association Sportive Aixoise (1959–1961, as a youth and in D2)
  • Stade Français Paris (1961–1967)
  • Association Sportive Saint-Étienne (1967–1971)
  • Olympique Marseille (1971–1974)

In the national team

Georges Carnus was used between April 1963 and May 1973 in a total of 36 A-internationals in the Équipe tricolore . He received his first appointment at the age of 20, with double world champion Pelé personally ensuring that Carnus couldn't go to his head: in Brazil's 3-2 win in Colombes , he overcame the young keeper three times. It took three and a half years before he again in goal for the Bleus stand - and this time gave him Hungary striker János Farkas even four goals a. Shortly before that, the goalkeeper had been part of the French squad at the 1966 World Cup , but had not played in England because coach Guérin preferred the older Marcel Aubour to him . Under the interim coaches Jean Snella , José Arribas and Just Fontaine , he played five games in a row in 1966/67, but he only became a regular goalkeeper through his performances in the 1-1 draw against West Germany in September 1968. By May 1973, he was missing in only four of 32 international matches; Carnus was not allowed to take part in a major tournament with the national team at this time.

Sudden end of career

At the end of June 1974, at the beginning of the summer break, Georges Carnus had an accident in his car between Laval and Vitré ; he recovered from his serious injuries, but his wife and two daughters did not survive the accident. After his physical convalescence , he settled in Aix-en-Provence , took, like many other footballers after their retirement, a job at the French sales organization of Adidas and “threw himself into work to suppress his personal tragedy”. He also worked on a voluntary basis with the youth teams of the Ligue de la Méditerranée , the regional division of the French football association .

Palmarès

  • French champion : 1968, 1969, 1970 with Saint-Étienne, 1972 with Marseille
  • French cup winner : 1968, 1970, 1972
  • 410 games in Division 1 , including 171 with Stade Français, 130 with AS Saint-Étienne and 109 with Olympique Marseille
  • 36 full internationals for France , including 6 with Paris, 18 with Saint-Étienne and 12 with Marseille
  • 22 appearances in European Cup, 12 of which with Saint-Étienne (all in the championship competition ) and 10 with Marseille (6 in the national championship and 4 in the UEFA Cup )
  • France's Footballer of the Year : 1970, 1971

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: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2
  • 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. ↑ The AS Aixoise remained in the second division because another club voluntarily relegated to the amateur camp.
  2. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 203-205.
  3. ↑ Chaumier, p. 66
  4. ↑ League statistics according to 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Carnus, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Gignac-la-Nerthe