Marcel Aubour

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Marcel Aubour (born June 17, 1940 in Saint-Tropez ) is a former French football player .

Club career

Aubour played his first game in Division 1 in August 1960 , in which he lost with his club Olympique Lyon 0-2 at the reigning champions Stade Reims . He only became a regular player from the 1962/63 season. The 1.80 m tall, physically strong and matter-of-fact goalkeeper was characterized by good control of the penalty area and dominance on high flanks, as well as his wide and precise throws. He was also a stabilizing factor within his teams thanks to his always cheerful manner and the ability to carry other players away. In an eleven with a few national players such as Jean Djorkaeff , Nestor Combin , Fleury Di Nallo , Victor Nurenberg and Stéphane Bruey , Aubour played mostly in the upper third of the table in the four years up to 1966; But Lyon was only really successful in the French Cup : in the 1962/63 season it reached the final, in which it lost 2-0 to AS Monaco after a 0-0 draw in the repeat game . A year later, however, this time in a final of two very strong defensive teams 2-0 against Girondins Bordeaux , the goalkeeper won his first title. In the same season he also advanced to the semi-finals with Olympique Lyon in the European Cup Winners' Cup after victories over B 1913 Odense , Olympiacos Piraeus and Hamburger SV , where he earned the reputation of a " penalty killer ". There the future cup winner Sporting Lisbon ended further title hopes after a total of three games. In the fall of this year, Marcel Aubour became a national player (see below) .

In 1966 he left Lyon and from then on guarded the gate of the OGC Nice . With the southern French, he reached, among others at the side of Charly Loubet and Bruno Rodzik , as runner-up in 1968, the best league placement of his career and played three seasons in a row in the Messecup , the forerunner of the UEFA Cup ; however, the OGC failed each time in the first round ( 1968/69 against Hansa Rostock ). In the summer of 1969, the club also rose as table-18. into the second division . After the first half of the 1969/70 season, OGCN put him out of the door for financial reasons and accepted an offer from Stade Rennes ' coach Jean Prouff with the words "If I need to, I can even walk". The team from Brittany also only played the role of a "gray mouse" in Division 1 during Aubour's years there - but in the national cup, Rennes reached the semi-finals in 1970 and the final a year later. The fact that the team qualified for the final in 1971 was largely thanks to their goalkeeper: in the semifinals against Olympique Marseille , he fended off three penalties in the necessary penalty shoot-out, including that of Josip Skoblar ; and in the final against Olympique Lyon he kept his box clean, so one goal from André Guy was enough to give Aubour his second win in the competition. In this encounter he was from Lyon-trailers with artichokes been thrown - he who over the years to a "personality, always good for a joke," had developed, took the occasion to deal with the fruit behind the goal Boule to play when the ball is in the opponent's half.

In 1972 Marcel Aubour moved to Stade Reims , with whom it was also not enough to win a championship title despite very dangerous strikers ( Delio Onnis , Georges Lech and Carlos Bianchi ) - a fifth place in the final table 1975/76 was the best placement in those years -, but in 1974 he was again in the cup semi-finals. When the red and whites even made it into the final of this competition in 1977 and lost it 2-1 to AS Saint-Étienne , the almost 37-year-old was only on the reserve bench in Parc des Princes : he had his last game for Reims disputed in September 1976 (2: 4 at AS Nancy ), after which the coaching team Flamion / D'Arménia replaced him with the second goalkeeper Christian Laudu . Subsequently, Aubour ended after a total of 482 point games - with which he only narrowly failed to be accepted into the "500 Club" - his career.

Stations

  • Olympique Lyonnais (1960–1966)
  • Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice (1966 – December 1969, the last six months in D2)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (January 1970–1972)
  • Stade de Reims (1972–1977)

In the national team

Aubour, who had also appeared internationally with the French juniors (Espoirs) , played 20 international matches for France between October 1964 (2-0 victory in Luxembourg ) and April 1968 . He was part of the French squad at the 1966 World Cup and was used in all three games in England. In view of the early elimination of the Bleus , the criticism did not stop at the goalkeeper, who was particularly chalked up for the Mexicans' hit at 1-1. This was followed by a 14-month international break before the new national coach Louis Dugauguez Aubour set up six times in a row in the 1967/68 season. After two 1: 5 away defeats against West Germany (September 1967) and Yugoslavia (April 1968, in the European Championship qualification ), Georges Carnus replaced him permanently in the goal of the Équipe tricolore . It is true that Aubour was regularly called up by Dugauguez 'successor Georges Boulogne in the 1970/71 season as No. 2 behind Carnus; but he was no longer used.

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing (but runner-up in 1968)
  • French cup winner: 1964, 1971 (and finalist 1963 [and 1977 without a final])
  • 20 full international matches for France, 14 of them with Lyon, 6 with Nice; World Cup participant in 1966
  • 482 games in Division 1 , of which 153 for Lyon, 96 for Nice, 86 for Rennes, 147 for Reims
  • 19 games in the European Cup, 12 for Lyon, 5 for Nice, 2 for Rennes

Life after player time

Then Marcel Aubour moved back to his homeland on the Côte d'Azur ; in Saint-Tropez, he took over the management of his parents' Hôtel de Paris . There, the "typical child of the Mediterranean coast" has written his memoirs - published under the title "Moi, le Breton" ( I, the Breton ).

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
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • 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: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur20000000000000000000013039.html
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 22
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 40
  4. ^ Cadiou, p. 160
  5. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 458
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 101 and 387
  7. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 151
  8. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, pp. 459f .; Cadiou, p. 160
  9. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 170 and 320–323
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 116f .; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 397
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 324-330.
  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. ^ To L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X , pp. 251, 289 and 330
  14. ↑ Cadiou, p. 161; Chaumier, p. 22; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 458

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personal data
SURNAME Aubour, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Tropez