Marie-Françoise Sidibé

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Marie-Françoise Sidibé (born September 22, 1962 in Marseille ), occasionally also spelled Sidibe , is a former French soccer player . The daughter of Malian immigrants was the first woman of African ancestry to play internationally for France.

Club career

Marie-Françoise Sidibé played football for Olympique Marseille at her birthplace as a teenager . The sources used do not reveal when exactly she started appearing for the first women’s team at OM; In the early days of modern women's football, however, it was not uncommon for talented girls to play in adult play. In addition, the defender was appointed to the senior national team for the first time at the age of 16 (see below) . In the 1978/79 season - at that time the French championship was still played in a final round with a mixture of group and knockout games - Marseille reached the semi-finals as well as the following year. After two preliminary rounds, Sidibé joined the US Cannes-Bocca in the middle of the 1982/83 season , where she met the only other national player from the south of France, Marlène Farrugia . But also with Cannes she failed in the championship semi-finals and left her native Mediterranean region for the first and only time after only six months . However, she did not succeed at AS Moulins , for which she played until 1986, at least once to reach the final for the title: Moulins was eliminated in the group games of the preliminary round in all three years.

Six years at Omnium Sports Monaco followed . After a promising opening season (1986/87), the Monegasque women were left behind in their semi-final group against ASJ Soyaux , and after that they even reached the top eight teams at best. Accordingly, the OSM 1992 could not qualify for the newly created first division (Championnat National 1 A) . Marie-Françoise Sidibé then moved to the Cercle Sportif Commerçants Vieux Nice , a small club from neighboring Nice , and returned to Celtic Beaumont in Marseille in 1994. With Celtic, she rose to the top division in 1996 , in which the women were represented for two years and to which they returned again in 2000 - if only for one season. The now almost 39-year-old defensive player then finally left the big stage of French women's football in 2001, but did not hang her sports shoes on the proverbial nail, but played for another five years for two lower-class clubs ( US Endoume Marseille and Rousset Sport ).

Sidibé has not been able to win a title in her almost 30-year career, not even in the national cup competition that was first introduced in 2001 .

Stations

  • Olympique Marseille (at least 1978 - late 1982)
  • US Cannes-Bocca (January – June 1983)
  • AS Moulins (1983-1986)
  • OS Monaco (1986-1992)
  • CSC Vieux Nice (1992-1994)
  • Celtic Beaumont Marseille (1994-2001)
  • US Endoume Marseille (2001/02)
  • Rousset Sport (2002-2006)

In the national team

Between her debut in February 1979 (6-0 against Wales ) and her last appearance in April 1987, Marie-Françoise Sidibé made 19 full internationals (one goal) for France . In the meantime, it had not been taken into account for a good two and a half years (from March 1980 to October 1982), neglecting to do so at a time when very few international matches were played annually, but only nine games. Then national coach Francis Coché , who described the tall (1.82 m), slim defensive player - a player like Wendie Renard three decades later  - as "impressively athletic", brought her back. Her only goal in the blue dress came in March 1986 in a European Championship qualifier against Belgium , when she shot France 2-1 in the eighth minute of the game. The French women won the match 3: 1; but this was her only point win in her group.

Sidibé belonged to the circle of French players who were used at the first European Championship - this was played without a final in a host country; in it she played all six games in France over a full 80 minutes (the playing time that was still customary internationally at the time was ten minutes shorter for women than for men). France, as runners-up behind Italy, missed the EM semi-finals. Coché's acting successor Aimé Mignot from May 1987 no longer considered them.

Marie-Françoise Sidibé has met the Swiss women four times , most recently in their farewell game; the French record was positive with two wins and two draws. However, she never met other national teams from the German-speaking area.

Palmarès

  • 19 full internationals, one goal for France

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Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Article “Deux grands clubs, deux grands rivaux” in Le football au féminin , no. 1, Ed. Nouveauté, Paris 1983, p. 36
  2. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 113
  3. ↑ see the game data sheet at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Sidibé, Marie-Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sidibe, Marie-Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille