Nestor Combin

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Nestor Combin
Nestor Combin - Juventus FC 1964-65.jpg
Combin 1964/65 in the jersey of Juventus Turin
Personnel
birthday December 29, 1940
place of birth Las Rosas ,  Argentina
size 176 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
CA Colón
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
CA Colón
1959-1964 Olympique Lyon 100 (68)
1964-1965 Juventus Turin 24 0(7)
1965-1966 Varese FC 16 0(2)
1966-1968 AC Turin 82 (27)
1968-1971 AC Milan 50 (11)
1971-1973 FC Metz 59 (38)
1973-1975 Red Star Paris 64 (39)
1975-1976 FC Hyères
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1967 France 8 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Nestor Combin (born December 29, 1940 in Las Rosas , Santa Fe Province , Argentina ) is a former French football player .

Club career

Five years in Lyon

Born in Argentina to French parents, the center forward , who had an extraordinarily "tight" shot, began his professional career in 1959 at Olympique Lyon , for which he scored 68 goals in five first division seasons in 131 games. Together with Fleury Di Nallo and initially also Eugène Njo-Léa , he formed a goal-hungry interior storm with class. Except in his first season, he appeared every year in the list of league goalscorer on top places: 1960/61 (10th with 15 hits), 1961/62 (14th, 13 goals), 1962/63 (13th, 16) and in his best year 1963/64 (3rd, 23rd). When he left the Rhone metropolis, he won his first title when Lyon won the French Cup ; In the final against Girondins Bordeaux , Combin scored both goals to make it 2-0. At the beginning of this year 1964 he was called up to the national team for the first time.

In the 1963/64 season, Olympique also played at European level, although it had lost the 1963 Cup final to AS Monaco . But since the Monegasque had also become champions of Division 1 , Lyon represented France in the European Cup Winners' Cup . After successes over B 1913 Odense and Olympiacos Piraeus , it went to the quarter-finals against Hamburger SV ; After a 1-1 draw in the Volksparkstadion , Combin shot the Hanseatic League out of the competition almost alone with his two goals in the second leg (2-0). In this second game, the striker known for his occasional irascibility - who was nicknamed "Nestor la foudre" (German: "the lightning strike" ) - was expelled after a punch against HSVer Dieter Seeler and was in Semi-final first leg (0-0 at Stade Gerland against Sporting Lisbon ) suspended. In the second leg in Portugal's capital, Combin's opening goal was enough for a surprising 1-1 draw, which at that time resulted in a third game on a neutral pitch, as there were no away goals rule. Lyon then lost the play-off in Madrid - two days after a league game and five days before the 1964 French Cup final - against the eventual European Cup winners 1-0. Combin and his teammates remained the little consolation that in European competitions apart from Stade Reims no French club had ever come this far. Together with his appearances in the trade fair cup in 1960/61 and 1961/62 (each first round against a Cologne city ​​selection or Sheffield Wednesday ) he has 11 goals with the Gones ("the boys" is the nickname of Olympique in France) in 12 European Cup games shot.

As a professional in Italy

For the next six years he laced his boots in the Italian league and also prevailed there. In the 1964/65 season he played for Juventus Turin and won the Coppa Italia for the first time . After a year at Varese FC , he stormed at AC Turin , won the cup again in 1968 and then went to AC Milan . In 1969 he won the European Cup with the Rossoneri  - although he was not on the pitch in the final - and later that year he also won the World Cup against Estudiantes de La Plata (3-0 and 1-2) . In a team with stars like Gianni Rivera , Pierino Prati and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Combin scored the 2-0 in the first leg, but in the second leg he fell victim to a sports scandal. The Argentina-born Combin was insulted as a “traitor” and so brutally beaten with head and elbow bumps by the Estudiantes players Alberto Poletti and Ramon Aguirre Suárez that he passed out on the pitch. Instead of helping him, the Argentine police arrested him for allegedly failing to do his military service for Argentina - which was absurd given the fact that Combin was French. Combin was released the next day, and both Poletti and Suarez received long sentences. He was the first Frenchman to have this intercontinental title.

Back in France

In 1970 he returned to France and played 59 games in Division 1 at FC Metz until 1973 . The total of 34 goals scored in the process show that he had not lost any of his goalscoring threat: in 1971/72 (12th place with 16 goals) and 1972/73 (5th, 18 hits) he promptly reappeared at the top of the top scorer list. His last professional position was Red Star , just relegated to Division 2 . The fact that it came back to the football upper house was not least due to Combin, who was successful 24 times. During the subsequent 1974/75 season he was back in a team with Fleury Di Nallo after ten years; Despite 15 goals in 31 games (11th place in the league goal scorers), he and his old Lyon colleague could not prevent Red Star from finishing the season bottom of the table. Combin then ended his successful professional career.

The national player

In the Équipe tricolore , Nestor Combin completed eight senior internationals between April 1964 and April 1968 (three each in his time at Lyon and Varese, one each at Juve and AC Turin) and scored four goals. The fact that he did not make more appearances was due to two factors: on the one hand, he had two strong competitors in Philippe Gondet and Hervé Revelli , and on the other hand, the clubs refused to allow him to play for the Bleus just once in his Italian years . He was also part of the French 1966 World Cup squad , but was only used in one game in England (against Mexico ).

Life after the active time

From the late 1970s, Combin ran a clothing store in Toulon for many years ; later he moved to the vicinity of Montpellier , where he came closer to football again as he volunteered for Montpellier HSC in various functions, including as a scout. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, he retired professionally.

Palmarès

Web links

Commons : Nestor Combin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Rewind to 1969: Estudiantes leave their mark , ESPNFC.com
  2. ↑ France Football of November 13, 2012, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Combin, Nestor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Las Rosas , Argentina