Nicole Abar

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Nicole Abar (born July 5, 1959 in Toulouse ) is a former French soccer player .

Club career

At the age of 11, Nicole Abar joined a suburban club in Toulouse, where she played in a mixed team of boys and girls, after the French association FFF had only legalized women's football in early 1970 . In 1976 she moved to the womenship of the neighboring US Colomiers . From there, Stade Reims, who won French championships for the third time in a row, brought the striker to the north of the country in 1977. Although she had played her first international match for France that year (see below) , it was initially difficult for her to prevail against competitors such as Isabelle Musset , Marie-Bernadette Thomas and Armelle Binard ; therefore her name was missing in 1978 and 1979 when Reims lost the championship finals against AS Étrœungt . A year later, however, she had prevailed and won her first title, to which she also contributed a goal in the final against ASJ Soyaux - just as in 1981, when her goal was not enough and Reims' women were again defeated on penalties against Étrœungt. In 1982 Nicole Abar's second championship title followed, but this time she missed out on the final. After that, the dominance of their team ended, which was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the championship in the following two years.

In 1984 Nicole Abar moved to La Vie au Grand Air (or VGA for short) de Saint-Maur , where some of her teammates at Stade Reims had also moved, such as Thomas, Marie-Agnès Annequin and Élisabeth Loisel . The women from near Paris dominated French women's football in the 1980s, as Reims had done before, and so the attacker was still missing in the 1985 championship final, but in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1990 Abar increased her trophy collection considerably. In particular , she harmonized perfectly with her offensive partner Régine Mismacq . In the finals, except in 1988, she had made a significant contribution to VGA Saint-Maur Stade Reims replacing France's record champions with two goals each. After three more years, the last of which as third in the table in the newly introduced first division (Championnat National 1 A) , the now 34-year-old Nicole Abar ended her career at the highest level with six championship titles - at that time she was unable to win the women's national cup win because this competition was only introduced in France in 2001 - but then played two more seasons with small clubs from the southern Paris region.

Stations

  • US Colomiers (1976/77)
  • Stade Reims (1977-1984)
  • VGA Saint-Maur (1984–1993)
  • ASPTT Villecresnes (1993/94)
  • Le Plessis-Robinson FC (1994/95)

National player

In April 1977, Pierre Geoffroy , who was to become Abar's club coach a little later in Reims, called the striker to an international match against Switzerland in the French national team . In September 1978 and February 1979 - already under Francis Coché , Geoffroy's successor as national coach - their next appearances in the blue dress followed. This was not only due to the player's difficulties in transitioning to her new club, but also to the fact that in the early days of women's football there were only three to four international matches a year compared to the 21st century.

For Nicole Abar, the international break lasted until May 1982. On her comeback, she scored the French goal in the 2-1 away defeat against the Norwegians and came to seven more appearances until March 1985. In February 1985 when the French 1-1 in Verona against Italy Abar celebrated her second goal for the Bleues . She played the last three of her 14 A-internationals between May 1986 and April 1987. This “farewell game” took place, like Abar's debut ten years earlier, again against the Swiss, against whom she was called up four times. Aimé Mignot , who replaced Coché in 1987 on the coaching post, did not resort to the scorer despite her success in the club jersey.

Palmarès

French champion: 1980 , 1982 (with Reims), 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 (with Saint-Maur)

Life after the time as an athlete

In the early 2010s, Nicole Abar lived in Toulouse again. She works there for the regional administration of Midi-Pyrénées in the youth and sports sector.

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 257. On the association's website, the result is incorrectly stated as 1: 0, but Abar is correctly named as the shooter of the equalization goal under “Détail des buts”; see the game dates at the FFF.
  2. ↑ see the article “Un dispositif gagnant-gagnant: la CIP” from the Journal des entreprises of June 5, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Abar, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse