Mustapha Dahleb

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Mustapha Dahleb (born February 8, 1952 in Bejaia ) is a former French- Algerian football player who has spent most of his career at professional clubs in France .

Club career

Mustapha Dahleb, who was born in Algeria , France at the time, came as a child with his parents to mainland France , where his father had found a job as a driver. In the Ardennes village of Flohimont, the rather petite boy, who was soon called “Mouss” or “Mousse” (also the short form of his first name and the French word for foam), started playing club football at an amateur club. There he discovered talent scouts of the CS Sedan , for whose first division eleven he came to his first league game at the age of 17; in the following season he was used in it once. After Sedan's relegation in mid-1971, he also played two games in the second division , but then went back to Algeria to do his military service, where he wore the CR Belcourt dress ; with the CRB he was runner-up in 1972 and during this time also became an Algerian national player (see below). 1973/74 he played again for the CS Sedan, which had to relegate again from Division 1 at the end of the season ; Dahleb had scored 17 goals for his team in 27 league appearances and thus reached eleventh place among the best first division hunters in France , which secured him a contract with the capital city club Paris Saint-Germain and remaining in the top division.

At PSG, Mustapha Dahleb , who was initially on the left wing or in the attack center as a striker , later often in attacking midfield , was an indispensable factor in the following years under President Hechter and coach Fontaine or their successors. Until 1979, Paris only managed to place midfield in the final table, but the Algerian shot himself into fourth place on the list of goalscorers with 22 goals in the 1976/77 season with 22 hits , mainly thanks to his “magic left foot” . He had long since become a crowd favorite in the Prinzenparkstadion and remained so to the last; in addition to his creative qualities, he was also attested to tactical skills . the fans liked "the breathtaking dribbles of this instinctive footballer, his intense commitment, which often seemed playful, and his skills as a preparer as well as an executor". In the period that followed, PSG continuously strengthened its personnel - including Jean-Michel Larqué , Carlos Bianchi , Dominique Baratelli , Jean-François Beltramini , Dominique Bathenay , Luis Fernández and Sarr Boubacar  - and from 1980 regularly finished in a single-digit position. Despite other notable entries ( Dominique Rocheteau , Nabatingue Toko , Safet Sušić , Michel N'Gom ) during Dahleb's time, it was not enough for a championship title (best placement: league third 1982/83), but he won the cup competition twice: 1982 sat Paris Saint-Germain beat AS Saint-Étienne in the final, albeit only after a penalty shoot-out, and a year later Mustapha Dahleb received the cup winners' medal again after beating FC Nantes 3-2 , albeit in this final only at the beginning of the second half - when Nantes was still leading 2-1 - was substituted on.

In the first international appearances of PSG in the European Cup winners competition Dahleb played eight of the ten Paris encounters: 1982/83 against Lokomotive Sofia , Swansea City and THOR Waterschei , 1983/84 against Glentoran Belfast and Juventus Turin ; he did not succeed in scoring in these games. In the summer of 1984 he left the capital for the Mediterranean coast after ten years in which he had become the most successful league scorer in the club's history of Paris Saint-Germain - this record will last well into the 21st century . There he was only used for the second division OGC Nice in a little more than half of the league games and only scored three goals, but at the end of the season he and his team celebrated promotion to Division 1 . Mustapha Dahleb then ended his professional career after a total of 297 games with 102 goals in the first and 21 games (3 goals) in the French second division due to increasing knee joint complaints - he had to undergo two meniscus operations during his time at PSG.

He then settled in Algeria and took on an advisory role for the country's national teams, which he gave up in 1986 after disputes with senior national coach Rabah Saâdane in the immediate run-up to the World Cup in Mexico . In 2003 he was made Knight of the Legion of Honor for his services to sport and his commitment to health promotion projects in Africa . At the end of 2011, he supported the demand for an investigation into the suspicion that numerous national players, with the knowledge of the Algerian Football Association, had taken illicit drugs in the 1980s , which is said to have caused deformities in several of their later-born children.

Stations

  • Flohimont (as a youth)
  • until August 1971: CS Sedan (until 1969 as a teenager; 1971/72 in D2)
  • September 1971-1973: CR Belcourt
  • 1973/74: CS Sedan
  • 1974–1984: Paris Saint-Germain FC
  • 1984/85: OGC Nice (in D2)

In the national team

“Mousse” Dahleb played for the first time at the age of 19 in the green jersey of the Algerian national team (November 1971, 0-0 in Libya ). In his second game at the Palestine Cup in early 1972, he scored the consolation goal of his Fennecs - the team and players of Algeria are known as " desert foxes " - in the 3-1 defeat against hosts Iraq . By November 1983 he played 16 official A-internationals, in which he scored three goals; In addition, there were at least four games against European club teams ( Olympique Lyon , Lausanne-Sports , Servette Genève , Real Oviedo ) and a number of unofficial country matches that cannot be precisely determined, some of them with the national military selection. By the time he returned to France (1973), Dahleb is said to have already played 20 games in all three categories, including nine official and the first two of his five World Cup qualifying games. He was also at the 1973 Pan-African Games in Lagos in all three preliminary round matches and scored two goals there against Tanzania .

After his return to France (1973), however, he was only used in a single game until May 1981 (World Cup qualification, 1977 against Tunisia ), before he qualified for the World Cup in Spain, among other things, in the surprising success against the reigning one Africa champion Nigeria was there again. Coach Rachid Mekhloufi called Mustapha Dahleb into his World Cup squad in 1982 ; in Spain he played all three preliminary round matches of the Fennecs. In particular because of his performance in the 2-1 victory over Germany , the first victory of an African over a European team at a world tournament, when he and Lakhdar Belloumi pulled the strings in midfield "well and effectively", he wrote himself alongside other Algerian professionals like Ali Fergani , Belloumi and Rabah Madjer in the annals of Algerian football, and the pictures in which he “ nimbly dances a ' dumb Teuton '” are reprinted to the present day. However, together with the Fennecs, he was subsequently also a victim of the German-Austrian “ Gijón Non-Aggression Pact ”.

Mustapha Dahleb also played his last international match against a national team from German-speaking countries when Switzerland won 2-1 in Algiers in November 1983 .

Palmarès

  • Algerian runner-up: 1972
  • French cup winner: 1982, 1983
  • National team player for Algeria between 1971 and 1983; World Cup participant 1982
  • Knight of the Legion of Honor

literature

  • Paul Dietschy, David-Claude Kemo-Keimbou (Co-editors: FIFA ): Le football et l'Afrique. EPA, o.r. 2008, ISBN 978-2-85120-674-9 .
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker, Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. 2nd Edition. Minerva, Genève 2003, ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 .

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. a b c Rethacker / Thibert, p. 859.
  2. ^ Pierre Lanfranchi, Matthew Taylor: Moving with the ball. The migration of professional footballers. Berg, Oxford / New York 2001, ISBN 1-85973-307-7 , p. 184; see also the portrait of Dahleb ( memento of the original from June 19, 2011 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. at afterfoot.fr @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afterfoot.fr
  3. see the season table at rsssf.com
  4. Seasonal information on these statistics from Sophie Guillet, François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 173-187.
  5. ^ Thierry Berthou, Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 2, ISBN 2-913146-02-3 , p. 304.
  6. ^ Alfred Wahl, Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-01-235098-4 , p. 251.
  7. Dietschy / Kemo-Keimbou, pp. 129 and 294
  8. L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 399.
  9. L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , p. 301.
  10. see the detailed interview with Dahleb (created after the 2006 World Cup) at psg70.fr
  11. D1 figures from 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., D2 information according to Dahleb's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links)
  12. see the article “The uprising of Mustapha Dahleb” from Jeune Afrique of July 5, 2005.
  13. see the article "Mustapha Dahleb, the artist from Prinzenpark" at afrik11.com
  14. see the article ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2012 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. from the Dernières Nouvelles d'Algérie of November 21, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dna-algerie.com
  15. For Dahleb's 16 official and the four club games with Algeria, see the information on the dzfootball page given under web links.
  16. ↑ Dahleb's biography at afrik11.com; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 859.
  17. see the overview of the 1973 tournament at dzfootball.fr
  18. Hardy Greens: Football World Cup Encyclopedia 1930-2006. AGON, Kassel 20042, ISBN 3-89784-261-0 , p. 302.
  19. Dietschy / Kemo-Keimbou, p. 140.
  20. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 572.
  21. Dietschy / Kemo-Keimbou, p. 108.