Mohamed Maouche

Mohamed Maouche (born February 24, 1936 in El Biar ) is a former Algerian - French football player and coach .

Athletic career

The young AS Saint-Eugène player from Algiers was considered one of the greatest talents in France, including Algeria in the 1950s; In 1953 he took fourth place in the final round in Paris at the Concours du jeune footballeur . 1956 signed the European Cup finalists Stade Reims Maouche; he used this opportunity not only for sporting reasons, but also because he “didn't like the heat”. At the beginning of the 1956/57 season, the half-forward was one of the most noticeable appearances among the Rémois: he scored three goals in four top division games . However, the expectation that he could immediately fill the void left by Raymond Kopa's move to Real Madrid was too high a claim on a 20-year-old. In addition, after just a few months, Mohamed Maouche was drafted to do his 18-month military service with the “ Joinville Football Battalion ”. That is why he was also absent when Stade Reims sensationally eliminated in the cup competition in February 1957 against SCU El Biar - an amateur club from Maouche's birthplace. He traveled with the national military team to the World Cup in Buenos Aires , but, unlike in the qualification, was not used there. When he had just returned to the Reims first team, he was seriously injured in the cup match against FC Limoges in early February 1958 .

On the second weekend in April, a few game days before the end of the 1957/58 season, there was an abrupt interruption in his career in French football. Like many other Algerian professional footballers, Mohamed Maouche had decided to play for the selection team of the Algerian Independence Movement (FLN) in order to promote the independence of the French colony. To travel to Tunis via Italy together , he wanted to meet a group of other players (including Abdelhamid Kermali and Rachid Mekhloufi ) in Lausanne , but missed them. Since he was still serving in the French army, he feared that after 48 hours he would be put out for a search for desertion , and so returned to France before this period had expired. There he was arrested for more than a month and then had to report regularly to the authorities (résidence surveillée) ; however, he was spared a trial before a military court. It was not until late autumn 1960 that he joined the FLN selection. In May of that year the convalescent became French champion and cup winner without any further appearances in the professional game of Stade Reims , thus also winning the doublé .

In 1959, together with Armand Penverne and René Bliard, he was loaned to the second division Red Star , who wanted to return to the upper house of football with all his might and strong investments. Maouche played 13 games there and scored two goals, but the club just missed promotion to Division 1 ; In 1960 Reims brought the Algerian back. After Kopa's return a year earlier and due to the fact that with Fontaine , Piantoni , Vincent and Muller, almost the entire assault line of the French national team played with the red-whites from Champagne , there was no fixed place for him in their attack. At the beginning of the season he was mainly used in the amateur team and also did not appear in the European Cup , for which Stade had qualified again as national champion in 1960. After a last appearance with the professionals (2-2 at Stade Rennes on September 4, 1960), he went to Tunis to play with the FLN team in the future. How many missions he came to there cannot yet be determined exactly. After gaining independence in his home country, he first worked as a player- coach in Martigny , Switzerland ; then he returned to Algeria. In December 1970 he took part in a farewell game of the FLN selection for the late Abdelaziz Ben Tifour . He later worked as a sports teacher in Mostaganem , as well as a coach at several clubs and briefly supervised the Algerian national team as an assistant to Yevgeny Rogow in 1981/82 . At the World Cup in Spain , for which the Fennecs - "Desert Foxes" is a name for this national team - were able to qualify for the first time, Rachid Mekhloufi was again responsible.

Club stations

• Association Sportive de Saint-Eugène Alger (1949–1956, from 1953 in the first team)
• Stade de Reims (1956-1958)
• Red Star Olympique Audonies (1959/60, in D2)
• Stade de Reims (1960/61)
• FLN selection (1960–1962)
• Martigny (Switzerland) (1962, as player-coach)
• Espérance Mostaganem (as player-coach)

In the national team

Maouche not only played for the FLN selection , but also for the official Algerian national team after 1962 . In October 1964 he stormed the 1-0 victory in Oran over Romania for the Fennecs ("Desert Foxes" is the common name for Algeria's national team).

Palmarès

• French champion: 1958
• French cup winner: 1958 (not used in the final)
• Military world champion 1957 (without participation in the final tournament) with France
• 1 international match for Algeria

literature

• Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
• Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau, Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
• François de Montvalon, Frédéric Lombard, Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-9512562-0-5
• Michel Nait-Challal: Dribbleurs de l'indépendance. L'incroyable histoire de l'équipe de football du FLN algérien. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2008, ISBN 978-2-916400-32-7

Web links

• Detailed French-language portrait of Maouche on a blog of MC Alger (bottom of the page) - As far as information from it was used for this article, this is marked separately.

References and comments

1. ↑ Not to be confused with the player of the same name (* 1982) by NA Hussein Dey ; on this cf. http://www.weltfussball.de/ Spieler_profil/mohamed-maouche/ . Whether it is another namesake, Dr. Mohamed Maouche, who led the delegation of the Algerian Football Association at a CAF congress in 1965 - see this source: cafonline.com (PDF) there p. 13 - is about the FLN player described in this article, cannot be completely ruled out; however, there is no further reference to such an identity in the literature.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} to sebbar.oldiblog.com ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, p. 88
4. ↑ Nait-Challal, pp. 80/81
5. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , pp. 209-213.
6. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 93 and 279
7. ↑ Nait-Challal, pp. 80/81; only according to Barreaud, p. 78, Maouche is said to have played for the selection from summer 1958 to mid-1959.
8. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 117
9. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 279; Figures from Barreaud, p. 78
10. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , p. 309
11. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 285f.
12. ↑ Nait-Challal, p. 213
13. ↑ dzfoot.com ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.