Michel Brusseaux

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Michel Brusseaux (born March 19, 1913 in Oran , † February 28, 1986 in Corsica ) was a French football player .

Club career

The 178 cm tall striker Brusseaux, who was preferred on the left wing , grew up in French-occupied Algeria and played for a club from Hammam Bou Hadjar as a young adult . The two-footed player who was considered to be strong at handling the ball went to metropolitan France in 1936 and was accepted into the team of the second division club OGC Nice . The then 23-year-old quickly developed into an integral part of the first team and performed so well that he left the first division club FC Sète in 1937was poached. In this he became a regular player and proved his qualities as a goalscorer with ten goals in the 1937/38 season. After a third place in 1938, he was part of the French championship team at Sète in 1939.

Immediately after winning the title, he moved to AS Saint-Étienne in 1939 . Due to the Second World War , regular game operations were discontinued and Brusseaux was only able to take part in the unofficially continued hosting of the championship for a short time before he was drafted into the military. During the war he was taken prisoner by Germany. During the 1944/45 season he was back on the pitch for Saint-Étienne and in the summer of 1945 saw the restart of official operations. In the 1945/46 season he got ten goals with which he made his contribution to the second place in the table of his team. In 1947 he moved to league rivals FC Nancy . Despite his relatively old age, he also took a regular place there before he ended his professional career in 1948 at the age of 35 after 131 first division games with 41 goals, 22 second division games with nine goals and five other unofficial first division games with three goals. He then played for the US Lodève and finally moved to Corsica, where he was on the field for FCC Bastia beyond the age of 40 . From 1958 to 1959 he coached the AC Ajaccio team, which was competing under amateur conditions . He spent the rest of his life in Corsica. He died in 1986 at the age of 72 and was buried in Vivario , Corsica.

National team

Brusseaux was 25 years old when he made his debut in the French national team on May 26, 1938 in a 4-2 defeat in a friendly against England . A little later he was appointed to the squad for the 1938 World Cup , but was not called up in the course of the tournament and had to accept the elimination of his team in the quarterfinals. Then he did not wear his country's jersey again, which meant that he did not get beyond a contested international match.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Brusseaux , national-football-teams.com
  2. ↑ a b BRUSSEAUX Michel , anciensverts.com
  3. ↑ Michel Brusseaux - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  4. ↑ Michel Brusseaux complete profile ( Memento from April 6, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu
  5. ↑ Joueur - Michel BRUSSEAUX , fff.fr
personal data
SURNAME Brusseaux, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Oran , France
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1986
Place of death Corsica , France