Joseph Yegba Maya

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Joseph Yegba Maya (born April 8, 1944 in Otélé ) is a former Cameroonian footballer who played most of his career in French professional football, where he is also known as Joseph (as a surname).

Club career

The massive, 1.80 m tall center forward came to Olympique Marseille in 1962 from Dragon Club Yaoundé . In his first season there rarely used, he rose with the club in 1963 promptly in Division 2 , in which he was able to regularly prove his strengths in the following three years. He was assertive and possessed, although he sometimes seemed a bit clumsy, a pronounced "nose for goal". Nevertheless - and although he was not the first black African in Olympiques dress - he was occasionally the target of racist comments from the audience. After a catastrophic season 1964/65, at the end of which Marseille almost disappeared in the amateur camp as third from bottom of the table, something like the U-turn followed - in 1966 the team rose to second in the top division . Joseph Yegba Maya, the top scorer in his team, valued the contribution that Mario Zatelli , who was his coach for the first time from 1964 to 1966, had in this development and in his personal improvement.

In Division 1 , OM asserted itself in the following four years until 1970, in which the Cameroonian still played there, always in the top half of the table. Even if the team was continuously strengthened (including Djorkaeff , Artelesa , Bonnel , Skoblar , Novi , Magnusson and Loubet ), Yegba Maya's part in this rise was quite considerable; In all four seasons he was, with an upward tendency, among the ten most successful goalscorers in the league , finishing ninth in 1966/67 (15 goals), third in 1967/68 and 1968/69 (18 and 21 respectively) and second in 1969/70 ( 24). He scored a total of 104 goals in 202 league games (first and second division), making him the club's fifth most successful goalscorer (behind Andersson , Skoblar, Papin and Aznar ) to date (2008) . It wasn't enough for a championship title , but when he left Marseille in 1970, his team had at least become runner-up. But he had won the cup competition a year earlier and also proved his standing: in the final against Girondins Bordeaux (2-0) his goal just before the final whistle finally ensured success. Only in the few European Cup appearances that Marseille completed in those years, his goal quotient remained below average: he scored the only goal in six appearances at this level in the trade fair cup in 1968/69 , and he did not prevent Olympique's elimination against Göztepe Izmir .

For the 1970/71 season, Yegba Maya moved to the northern French league rivals US Valenciennes . He personally did not have any problems with the transition, but made it into the top 10 scorer for the fifth time in a row (4th place with 22 goals); the team rose as table-19. however, only to return a year later - thanks in part to his 28 goals - as second division champion. 1973 Valenciennes had to leave the first division again. Then it took Racing Strasbourg under contract. After two years, which he finished with the Alsatians in upper midfield, the striker turned his back on the top division and northern France in 1975 and was still active for one season at the second division AS Béziers . No information is yet available about how and where Joseph Yegba Maya lived from 1976 onwards.

Stations

  • Dragon Club Yaoundé (until 1962)
  • Olympique de Marseille (1962–1970, including 1963–1966 in D2)
  • Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin (1970–1973, of which 1971/72 in D2)
  • Racing Club de Strasbourg (1973-1975)
  • Association Sportive Biterroise (1975/76, in D2)

In the national team

Joseph Yegba Maya has played a number of international matches for Cameroon that has not yet been determined exactly , although it has only been part of qualifications for the World and African Championships since 1970 . At the African Cup of Nations in 1972 in his home country, he scored a goal in the preliminary round in a 2-0 win over Togo , but was not used in the game for third place (5-2 against Zaire ) by coach Peter Schnittger . The information about his participation in the World Cup qualifications of these years is similarly patchy: whether he was involved in the first round of Cameroon in 1970 (2: 3 and 1: 1 against Nigeria ) or the failure in Zaire in the second Africa round in 1974 , does not emerge from the sources used.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing (but runner-up 1970)
  • French cup winner: 1969
  • unknown number of senior international matches for Cameroon; 3rd place at the African Cup of Nations 1972
  • 238 games and 124 goals in Division 1 , of which 133/79 for Marseille, 74/33 for Valenciennes, 31/12 for Strasbourg; also a total of 106/60 in D2
  • 6 European Cup games (1 goal)

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • 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, p. 463
  2. ^ Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 122
  3. ↑ http://www.jeuneafrique.com/jeune_afrique/article_jeune_afrique.asp?art_cle=LIN02046papedfuoide0 (Interview with OM President Pape Diouf in Jeune Afrique on April 2, 2006)
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: (Article by Nicolas Deltort from ActuFoot34, issue 30, February 2008)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / footnostalgie.free.fr
  5. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 168-176.
  6. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 375 and 380
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 385
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans, p. 259
  9. ↑ Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia 1930-2006. AGON, Kassel 2004 2 ISBN 3-89784-261-0 , pp. 219 and 246
  10. ↑ First division numbers 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., second division numbers according to Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 122
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans, p. 271
personal data
SURNAME Yegba Maya, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joseph; Monsieur Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Otélé , Cameroon