Mahi Khennane

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Mahi Khennane, 1962

Mahi Khennane (born October 21, 1936 in Mascara ) is a former Algerian - French football player and coach . He has made international appearances for both France and Algeria. In France it was often referred to simply as "Mahi" and even appears in some books under Khennane Mahi .

Club career

Mahi Khennane came to the Breton first division Stade Rennes UC at the age of 19 from the Gallia Club in his hometown, which was still part of French North Africa . There he developed into an elegant, assertive and powerful center forward who played his first league game in October 1956. As the club at end of the season after two defeats in the Barrages in the Division 2 relegation, he stayed with SRUC and returned in 1958 back into the footballing upper house. In total, he wore Rennes' colors for six years, where he attracted attention alongside players such as Henri Guérin , Antoine Cuissard (from 1961 also his coach) and Yvon Goujon . For the first time in 1958/59 he appeared at the top of the D1 goalscorer list (4th place with 23 hits). He was able to repeat this twice: in 1961/62, in his last year for Rennes, and in 1962/63 (5th place with 18 goals and 4th with 22).

In April 1958, in the middle of the Algerian War , Khennane had personally - unlike many other Algerian professional players - decided against playing for the "independence elf" of his home country; as a result, he could later become the French international (see below) . In addition, France Football honored him with the Étoile d'Or as the best player of the 1960/61 season. His team had only ever finished in a lower midfield position in the championship and had not got past 12th place all these years. In the cup competition Khennane was also accurate - he drove in the season 1958/59 when Stade Rennes brought it to the semifinals, including two goals to 3: 2 quarter-final victory over Olympique Lyon at.

From 1962 to 1965 he played for Toulouse FC in a more successful team (League 7th in 1963 and even 5th in 1964); During this time, it was also considered internationally for Algeria, which has now become independent. This was followed by a season at Olympique Nîmes ; although Olympique was able to prevent relegation in the relegation round , Mahi Khennane went to Red Star in 1966 and back in 1967 to FC Lorient in Brittany (both in the second division). After three years as a player-coach at his original club, which has now been renamed GCR Muaskar , he ended his career as an active player at the age of 34.

Stations

  • Gallia Club de Mascara (until 1956)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1956–1962, 1957/58 in D2)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1962-1965)
  • Nîmes Olympique (1965/66)
  • Red Star Olympique Audonies (1966/67, in D2)
  • Football Club de Lorient (1967/68, in D2)
  • Ghali Chabab Rai Muaskar (1968–1971, as player-coach)

In the national team

In October and November 1961, Khennane played two full international matches for France ; both ended with away defeats: 0: 3 against Belgium and 0: 1 in the World Cup qualification against Bulgaria . This 0: 1 in an even game, in which Bulgaria's goal fell in the 90th minute, "heralded the end of French hopes" to be able to plan for the World Cup finals in Chile . Khennane then complained in the French press that his counterpart Kovachev had played with all illicit means without the Czechoslovak referee intervening.

After his country of birth became independent in mid-1962, he was appointed to the Algerian national team for the first time in 1963 . The exact number of his games for the Fennecs - "desert foxes" is a common name for this team - has not yet been determined; in one source it is given as three. Mahi Khennane was certainly in their ranks on New Year's Day 1964 in Algiers when it went against West Germany . He overcame goalkeeper Fritz Ewert after just eight minutes before another French professional , Ahmed Oudjani from RC Lens, made it 2-0.

Coaching career

Mahi Khennane worked as a player-coach at GCR Muaskar from 1968 before he returned to Brittany in the early 1970s and coached the US Saint-Servan-Saint-Malo team. He then led the Cormorans Sportifs de Penmarc'h for promotion to the third highest division . In the 1980s he was back on the sidelines at a club from Mouaskar; with the GC Mascara he succeeded in winning the Algerian championship in 1984 , so far the only major title that this club was able to get, and it was Khennane's only one.

The "Mahi" who lives in Brittany today is still interested in football; Most recently, at the end of 2010, he took the opportunity as a member of the jury to cast his vote for France's Footballer of the Year , which he received with his own award from 1961. On the first three places of his personal list, he put three offensive players.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: Nothing (but semi-finalist 1959)
  • 2 international A matches (no hit) for France, at least 3 international A matches (at least 1 goal) for Algeria
  • 237 games and 98 goals in Division 1 , 161/61 for Rennes, 61/31 for Toulouse, 15/6 for Nîmes
  • 62 games and 22 goals in Division 2 , of which 29/12 for Rennes, 17/4 for Red Star, 16/6 for Lorient
  • awarded the Étoile d'Or as the best first division player of the 1960/61 season
  • as coach: Algerian champion 1984

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • 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
  • Michel Nait-Challal: Dribbleurs de l'indépendance. L'incroyable histoire de l'équipe de football du FLN algérien. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2008 ISBN 978-2-9164-0032-7

Remarks

  1. ↑ for example in Chaumier, p. 203; explicitly, however, Cadiou, p. 268
  2. ↑ Cadiou, pp. 268f.
  3. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 158-167.
  4. ↑ Nait-Challal, p. 80
  5. ↑ Cadiou, p. 269; L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 375
  6. ↑ Chaumier, p. 203
  7. ^ Quotation from L'Équipe of November 13, 1961, printed in L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 109
  8. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/mahi-intl.html
  9. ↑ DFB (ed.): Passion for the ball. 100 years of German international matches 1908 to 2008. Medienfabrik, Gütersloh 2007 ISBN 978-3-577-14701-9 , p. 346
  10. ^ Cadiou, p. 269
  11. ↑ France Football of December 14, 2010, p. 12
  12. ↑ 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 o. J.
  13. ↑ after Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 78

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personal data
SURNAME Khennane, Mahi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Algerian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mascara