Joseph Bonnel

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Joseph Bonnel (born January 4, 1939 in Florensac , Département Hérault , † February 13, 2018 ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

The southern French made his professional debut as an 18-year-old in August 1957 in the team of the second division SO Montpellier . In his two seasons there, the “ball tug between defense and attack” developed into a very valuable team player who “spent his career letting others shine”, versatile and reliable, also dangerous for goals and a technically strong dribbler. Wherever he played, he was used either as an outside runner or a half- forward. In 1959 the US Valenciennes brought him to the north of France , where he stayed for eight years; especially after relegation and immediate promotion (1962) to Division 1 , alongside Serge Masnaghetti and Jean-Claude Piumi, he was the engine of a team that was always in the top third of the table and even had opportunities in 1965 and 1966 as third had the championship title . In addition, Bonnel came with Valenciennes in 1964 to the Cup semi-finals, in which they were defeated 0-2 to the subsequent competition winner Olympique Lyon . He had also become a national player two years earlier (see below) .

The title won Joseph Bonnel, who was called "Zizou" within the team, only after his 1967 move to Olympique Marseille , the first in 1969 in the French Cup competition (Coupe de France) after a 2-0 final victory over Girondins Bordeaux . This season he had scored at least one goal in every round except the final, including several decisive ones and a total of seven. In 1971, after 23 years, Olympique was once again French champion (with 12 goals from Bonnels) and one year later not only defended this title, but also enhanced it by winning the national cup at the same time - after a 2-1 final against SEC Bastia  , because it was also linked to winning the doublé . Even though the team was continuously strengthened, especially under coach Mario Zatelli ( Carnus , Djorkaeff , Bosquier , Artelesa , Yegba Maya , Skoblar , Novi , Magnusson , Gress , Couécou and Loubet, among others, wore the white jersey of the particularly offensively strong team) , Bonnel's part in this ascent was quite significant, as he was quickly considered "the lung" of the Marseille game.

He was also on the pitch in 13 of the 14 European Cup games Olympique played in Bonnel's six years. Two of these are among Olympique's early highlights: the 2-0 win against Dukla Prague in the 1969/70 cup winners' competition , when Loubet's goal in extra time allowed his eleven to qualify for the round of 16, and the “home game” against Juventus in Lyon Turin in the European Cup of National Champions 1972/73 . Joseph Bonnel was the only goalkeeper to overcome Dino Zoff against the Italians , but the 1-0 victory was not enough to advance.

In the summer of 1973 Bonnel decided to end his playing career, even though the 34-year-old was still perfectly fit. From the third match day of the 1973/74 season, after Mario Zatelli had been dismissed at short notice, he held the head coach position at Olympique Marseille, which he had to vacate after 14 first division and 4 UEFA Cup games in November. His successor was Chile's ex-national coach Fernando Riera Bauza , who in turn was fired before the end of the season. The reason for Bonnel's dismissal was the UEFA Cup debacle against 1. FC Köln , to which Olympique lost 6-0 after a 2-0 home win in the second leg. He then returned as a player- coach to the second division AS Béziers in his region of origin; with this team he met in February 1974 in the round of the last 64 teams of the Coupe de France on Olympique Marseille. The 1-0 win after extra time was Bonnel's greatest success at the modest club, which in the following years only ever reached a midfield position in the southern group of the two-part Division 2 . In 1978 Bonnel's engagement in Languedoc ended , which then settled in Provence .

Stations

  • Florensac
  • Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1957–1959, in D2)
  • Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin (1959-1967, of which 1961/62 in D2)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1967–1973; August to November 1973 as head coach)
  • Association Sportive Biterroise (December 1973–1978, as player-coach in D2)
  • Aubagne Football Club (1978–1983, as a player-coach in the amateur field)

In the national team

Between October 1962 and March 1969, Joseph Bonnel played 25 full international matches for France and scored one goal. He made his debut under Sélectionneur Verriest and coach Guérin in the 1-1 draw in Sheffield against England and was part of the regular formation until the summer of 1967. In his fifth appearance for the Bleus , the opponent was again England, and the 5-2 success in a qualifier for the European Championship in 1964 (February 1963) is still one of the legendary French games to this day. L'Équipe wrote of Bonnel's part in it: "As usual, Bonnel did a huge amount of work and achieved enormous things."

He was also in the French squad at the 1966 World Cup and played all three matches of the Equipe tricolore in England, including a preliminary round match against the hosts, who this time got the upper hand 2-0. His last match after an international break of over 20 months was again against England; after the 5-0 defeat at Wembley , the new coach Georges Boulogne , who would have wished for a better start to his career, never called him again, although Bonnel played his most successful seasons at the club in the following years.
He also played against national teams from German-speaking countries: in 1962 against West Germany (2: 2 in Stuttgart ), in 1965 against Austria (1: 2 in Paris ) and Luxembourg (4: 1). Against Luxembourg, he wore the blue jersey again in a 3-0 win in 1966. He also had a memorable appearance against Brazil (3-2 in April 1963) when he kept Pelé in check for long stretches of the game and still couldn't prevent him from defeating France with three goals almost alone.

Palmarès as a player

  • French champion: 1971, 1972 (and runner-up 1970)
  • French cup winner: 1969, 1972
  • 25 full international matches (1 goal) for France, including 24/1 during his time at Valenciennes, 1/0 at Marseille; World Cup participant in 1966
  • 403 games and 83 goals in Division 1 , of which 209/40 for Valenciennes, 194/43 for Marseille
  • 13 games (one hit) in the European Cup, all with Marseille

Life after football

In 1978 Joseph Bonnel returned to the greater Marseille area, where he worked as head of the sports department in the Aubagne city ​​council . In addition, he coached the local football club, for which he was still on the pitch himself in the amateur field until 1983 - as a 44-year-old. He had to give up his full-time job in 1998 for health reasons. Then he moved - "without a gray hair and an unnecessary kilogram" - back to his birthplace Florensac. On the night of February 12th to 13th, 2018, he died after a long, serious illness.

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • 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: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • 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. ↑ Joseph Bonnel s'est éteint… . Olympique de Marseille website, February 13, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 50; similar to Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 20
  3. ↑ Pécheral, p. 200
  4. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 20
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 380
  6. ↑ Pécheral, p. 193; there is Rolland Courbis , 1971, the 1980 coach until 1973 when Marseille Bonnels players and early Zinedine Zidane cited in Bordeaux, with the statement, the nickname Zizou Zidane was given years later in conscious allusion to Bonnel.
  7. ↑ Pécheral, p. 193
  8. ↑ Pécheral, p. 200
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 385 and 388
  10. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 20; Pécheral, pp. 395/396
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, pp. 261f.
  12. ↑ Pécheral, p. 201
  13. ↑ Pécheral, p. 495
  14. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007] ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 419
  15. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 390
  16. ↑ L'Équipe of February 28, 1963, article facsimile in L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 110
  17. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 323–328
  18. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 111; two photos of duels between the two players can be found there, p. 323, and in Chaumier, p. 50
  19. ↑ 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, n.d.; According to Pécheral, p. 373, even 44 goals in the game near Marseille
  20. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, 50 ans, p. 271
  21. ↑ Pécheral, p. 201
  22. ↑ Chaumier, p. 50

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personal data
SURNAME Bonnel, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Florensac , Hérault department
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2018