Mohamed Salem

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Mohamed Salem (born May 24, 1940 in Oran , † May 4, 2008 in Belfort ) was an Algerian football player who has completed the main part of his sports career in France and Belgium .

Club career

Mohamed Salem, who was born in North Africa in France at the time, began playing club football at MC Oran as a teenager . In 1959, when the Algerian war was still raging in his homeland , he came to the French metropolitan area; The reason for this and an answer to the question of whether he took this step with his family or alone is not known. After a short stopover at an amateur club from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , he signed a professional contract with the northern French first division UA Sedan-Torcy in late 1959 or early 1960 . In his first year with the Sangliers - "Wild boar" is the nickname for the team from the Ardennes , which is well meant  - he won the national cup with his teammates . The team owed the fact that Sedan made it into the final at all thanks to a late goal by Salem in the semi-final repeat match against Girondins Bordeaux , and in the subsequent final , the tall, angular striker had contributed a goal to the 3-1 victory over Olympique Nîmes . In the league games he was also often successful and finished the season with a total of 16 goals in ninth place among the best league goal hunters . In 1961/62 he suffered a serious injury (broken leg), which made it necessary to take a long break; Salem shared this lot with several other goal-threatening attackers in Division 1 , who were often "fair game for the attacks" of opposing defenders in the first half of the 1960s. As a result, he missed both of his club's games in the European Cup Winners' Cup , which Sedan-Torcy lost to eventual competition winners Atlético Madrid 2: 3 and 1: 4, and also only made twelve point appearances in Division 1 . After his recovery, however, he remained Sedan's most dangerous striker; With 21 goals in 1962/63 he was personally the sixth best scorer in the league, became an Algerian national player (see below) and his team finished the season third in the table. A year later, 18 hits were even enough for fifth place in the top scorer list.

Nevertheless, his club then sold him to the traditional club Daring Brussels from the highest Belgian league . Salem stayed there for three years, but more precise information regarding his achievements and possible successes is not contained in the literature used; Daring did not win a national championship title during this time - it was reserved for the "serial winner" of those years, Sporting Anderlecht - and in the cup competition it was not enough to participate in the final. In 1967 the striker returned to Sedan . The UA Sedan-Torcy had now merged with the capital club Racing Paris and was now called Racing Paris-Sedan. Mohamed Salem immediately found his feet again, scored 13 goals in 1967/68, and the team closed the three seasons after his return in the front midfield of Division 1 , advanced in the cup in 1969 to the semi-finals and made it again in the league in 1970 to third place. During this season , the performances of Mohamed Salem , who is now mostly withdrawn and often even acting as a libero, were so constant that after the end of the season he and Bernard Bosquier were awarded the Étoile d'Or as the best player in Division 1 . After the Paris / Sedan merger was dissolved, his club was now called CS Sedan, and with that Salem finally made two international appearances in the 1970/71 Messestädte Cup in the games against 1. FC Köln , against which the Sangliers 1-0 and 1: 5 were eliminated from the competition in the first round. In the domestic league, too, they could not build on the strength of previous years and in 1971 were even relegated to the second division as bottom of the table . Mohamed Salem remained loyal to Sedan and contributed to the immediate resurgence in 1972; He then ended his professional career after a total of 237 first division games with 84 goals and 18 matches with eleven goals in Division 2 . He then settled in France, where he died in 2008, three weeks before his 68th birthday, after a long illness.

Stations

  • until 1959 Mouloudia Club d'Oran
  • 1959 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
  • 1959 or 1960–1964 UA Sedan-Torcy
  • 1964–1967 Royal Daring Club Brussels
  • 1967–1970 Racing Club Paris-Sedan
  • 1970–1972 Club Sportif Sedan

National player

Mohamed Salem made his debut in July 1963 in a game against Egypt in the Algerian national team . The selection, also known as the Fennecs ("Desert Foxes"), was still under construction after the country's independence in 1962 and held numerous encounters, but only relatively few official international matches. Salem had four appointments up to 1968; He has also played several times for the Algerian national military team. When Algeria's team, which included several French professionals, achieved a surprising 2-0 win against West Germany on New Year's Day 1964 in Algiers , Salem's name was missing from the Fennecs' line-up.

Palmarès

literature

  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see the article "It was 45 years ago" at allezsedan.com
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France , p. 118
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France , p. 377
  4. ↑ These and the following figures on goal scorers in France according to Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 160-163 and 167-171.
  5. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , pp. 174f.
  6. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 111
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France , p. 385
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , p. 331; Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 341
  9. ↑ First division numbers according to 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, n.d.; Second division information according to footballdatabase.eu (see under web links).
  10. ↑ see the message on lequipe.fr
  11. ↑ see the complete list of the international games of Algeria at rsssf.com
  12. ↑ after the article "Sedan, the Cup and Salem" (see under web links)
  13. ↑ German Football Association (Ed.): Passion on the ball. 100 years of German international games 1908 to 2008. Medienfabrik, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-577-14701-9 , p. 346
  14. ↑ Sedan's list after this match report at footballdatabase.eu
personal data
SURNAME Salem, Mohamed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Oran , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2008
Place of death Belfort , France