Jules Bocandé

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Jules François Bocandé (born November 25, 1958 in Ziguinchor , Senegal , † May 7, 2012 in Metz , France ) was a football player and coach . To the present day he is regarded as a "figurehead of Senegalese football".

Club career

Jules Bocandé first played football for Casa Sports Ziguinchor , a club from his birthplace. With this team he won the Senegalese cup in 1979. After he stood with the club again in the cup final in 1980 and had participated in a brawl, he was given a long suspension by the national association . He then went to Europe and played in Belgium for two years each with the third division Royal US Tournai and then with the first-class RFC Seraing . From there he was brought in 1984 by the French first division club FC Metz , who had just won the national cup competition a few weeks earlier . With the Messins he played in the top third of the table, finished his first season there as fifth in the league and developed into a goal-scoring center forward . The following season 1985/86 finished Metz in sixth place in the table, and Bocandé had made a significant contribution; with 23 goals, he secured the title of best goalscorer in Division 1 . He also won the previous league cup competition with Metz , the “Coupe de l'été”. This led to the Paris Saint-Germain association buying him out of his contract for 28 million  francs . Although he played all 38 league games of the 1986/87 season for PSG, he only managed six goals because with Dominique Rocheteau and Vahid Halilhodžić, who was also newly signed for this season, a total of three dangerous players in the attacking formation were in the Complement the playground less than compete with each other. Jules Bocandé later said that Rocheteau and playmaker Safet Sušić in particular "cut" him. In the final table, the Parisians, previously traded as favorites, only finished seventh.

PSG then sold Bocandé, who had earned 500,000 francs a month there, in the late autumn of 1987 to OGC Nice , where the striker stayed for almost four years. With the exception of one season (1988/89) in which the "young eagles" -  Aiglons is the most common name for the club's players into the 21st century - achieved sixth place in the league, Jules Bocandé played on the Côte d'Azur regularly against relegation. The OGC had to contest the barrages against Racing Strasbourg in 1990 as third from bottom , but was able to secure relegation. To the seven goals of the Aiglons in these two games, Bocandé had only contributed one goal, while his strike partner Robert Langers had been successful five times. A year later, not even a 14th place in the final table prevented the OGC from being “transferred” to the second division by the association - for financial reasons . Bocandé was able to place himself in tenth place among the league chasers this season with only ten goals. He then moved to the promoted Racing Lens , with whom he achieved a respectable place in the upper midfield. However, he had only been used in 26 of the 38 league games and had only contributed six goals. In 1992, after a total of 223 missions with 70 hits in Division 1 , he returned to Belgium, where he wore Eendracht Aalst's dress for a year in the second division and then ended his playing career at the age of 34.

Stations

  • until 1980 Casa Sports Ziguinchor
  • 1980–1982 Royal US Tournai
  • 1982-1984 Royal FC Seraing
  • 1984–1986 FC Metz
  • 1986 – November 1987 Paris Saint-Germain FC
  • December 1987–1991 OGC Nice
  • 1991/92 Racing Lens
  • 1992/93 Eendracht Aalst

In the national team

Jules Bocandé made a total of 73 senior international appearances for Senegal between 1979 and 1993 , scoring 20 goals. When Senegal was able to qualify for an African Cup again in 1986 after almost two decades, they were the "key players" in this success. In 1990 in Algeria , he reached the semi-finals with the “Lions of Teranga” - the common name for the national team - and fourth place in the subsequent placement match. When this competition was held in his home country in 1992 , however, the Cameroon already put an end to further hopes of being able to win a title with the national team in the quarterfinals. Bocandé scored three of his goals in the national dress during these continental tournaments: he scored one goal each against Mozambique (1986), Nigeria and Kenya (both 1992).

Coaching and private life

In 1994, the Senegalese association appointed Jules Bocandé as co-trainer alongside Sarr Boubacar as national coach. He held this position for twelve full international matches until 1995. He was also a member of the coaching staff for many years and fulfilled his task even in times when he did not receive a salary for months due to internal association disputes and payment difficulties (end of 2006). Even when the Senegal in the World Cup finals in 2002 did talk positively of themselves - the "Lions" failed there in the quarter-finals at the Turkey  -, he served as assistant of Bruno Metsu in Japan and South Korea here.

Until his death, Bocandé also owned a discotheque and a sporting goods store in his hometown, and was also the mayor's deputy. He also planned to set up a youth center at his first club, Casa Sports. At the beginning of May 2012, he returned to Metz to undergo a surgical operation that had become necessary due to arteriosclerotic changes. He died there on May 7th, only 53 years old.

Palmarès

  • Senegalese cup winner 1979
  • 1986 French League Cup winner
  • Division 1 top scorer in 1986

literature

  • Hardy Greens: World Football Encyclopedia. America, Africa & Oceania. The workshop, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-640-9
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Greens, p. 163
  2. ↑ Greens, p. 164
  3. ↑ these stations according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links )
  4. ^ All French goalscoring lists, also for the following years, from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 188-202
  5. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 218 and 229
  6. ^ Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9 , p. 150
  7. ↑ a b after his biography at afterfoot.fr, there under "Sa vie, son œuvre" (see links )
  8. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 232
  9. ↑ see the two match data sheets for the first and second leg at footballdatabase.eu
  10. ↑ First division numbers in France 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.
  11. ↑ see the tournament details for 1986 , 1990 and 1992 at rsssf.com
  12. ↑ see the report of his death on the website of the Nouvel Observateur from May 8, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bocandé, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bocandé, Jules François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziguinchor , Senegal
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2012
Place of death Metz , France