Marc-Vivien Foé

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Marc-Vivien Foé
Personnel
birthday May 1st, 1975
place of birth Yaoundé ,  Cameroon
date of death June 26, 2003
Place of death Lyon ,  France
size 188 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Union Garoua
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1994 Canon Yaoundé
1994-1999 RC Lens 85 (11)
1999-2000 West Ham United 38 0(1)
2000-2003 Olympique Lyon 43 0(3)
2002-2003 →  Manchester City  (loan) 35 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2003 Cameroon 62 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Marc-Vivien Foé (born May 1, 1975 in Yaoundé , Cameroon , † June 26, 2003 in Lyon , France ) was a Cameroonian football player .

Career

Career in Cameroon and France

Foé was born in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé in the Nkolo district and began his football career as a professional player at the Canon Yaoundé club in the Cameroonian football league. After the soccer World Cup in 1994 , he moved to the better paying French Ligue 1 for RC Lens . There the African won the French championship title in 1998. At that time, Foé was under discussion at Manchester United , but he broke his leg and was not signed by the financially strong English club. Because of this injury, the midfielder was also absent from the 1998 World Cup in France.

Premier League and return to France

After recovering, he moved to West Ham United in the English Premier League the following year . In 2000 Foé returned to his second home in France. He played at Olympique Lyon . After suffering from malaria that put him out of action for weeks, he won the French Cup in 2001 and the championship title in 2002. Foé was then loaned from Lyon to Manchester City in the Premier League , where he played a successful season.

death

Flowers for Foé in front of Maine Road Stadium , then home to Manchester City
Memorial plaque for Foé in front of the City of Manchester Stadium , which opened in 2003

On June 26, 2003 at the Confederations Cup 2003 Foé collapsed in the semifinals against Colombia due to heart failure (see also Sudden Cardiac Death in Sports ). Doctors treated the 28-year-old on the field and fought for his life for an hour. In the medical center of Lyon , only death could be determined. Foé's death came as a shock to the entire football world. There were discussions about whether the Confederations Cup and the stadium should be named after him. The game, his 62nd appearance in the Indomitable Lions jersey , took place at the Stade Gerland in Lyon.

memory

Manchester City will no longer award jersey number 23 in memory of Foé. After winning the final of the African Cup of Nations in 2017 , all players of the Cameroonian national team put on a jersey with Foé's number 17 on the back.

Cameroon CAF2017 750x410.jpg

Web links

Commons : Marc-Vivien Foé  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Football: sadness and horror over the death of Marc-Vivien Foé. Stern , June 27, 2003, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  2. ^ Robert Mamrud: Marc-Vivien Foé - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 30, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/27/football-the-knowledge-retired-shirts
personal data
SURNAME Foé, Marc-Vivien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1st, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaoundé , Cameroon
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2003
Place of death Lyon , France