Paul Sinibaldi

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Paul Sinibaldi (born December 3, 1921 in Montemaggiore , Haute-Corse department , † April 2, 2018 in Marseille ) was a French football player .

The club career

The son of a Corsican family took his first steps in football with a small club in Marseille . However, while his parents and their smaller siblings moved to northern France towards the end of the Second World War , Paul Sinibaldi soon made his sport his profession. He signed on as a goalkeeper at Toulouse FC , who played in Division 1 , the top division in the country, from 1946/47 . In 1948 he moved to Stade de Reims , which still had its “big time” ahead of it. There was a sporting family reunification of Sinibaldis: Pierre , the "youngest", was there as extremely prolific striker since 1944 starting eleven, and in the same year as Paul was also the eldest brother, external rotor Noël, until then Alès Olympique under Contract to Champagne .

Paul immediately prevailed against the Red-Whites, was in goal in 28 of the 34 league games and was already French champion at the end of his first season (1948/49) - as were Pierre and Noël (the latter only made 12 appearances, which is why he left Reims after winning the title), although the stadium announcer only ran the risk of making three promises in only four league games. A year later, Paul Sinibaldi also won the French Cup in a Reimser team that had players of high standing in their ranks, including Marche , Jonquet , Penverne , Flamion , Bini , Batteux and the newly signed Appel and Méano , who played French football in the 1950s Years should dominate sustainably. At the end of this second season, the goalkeeper was even appointed to the national team.

Paul Sinibaldi played almost all league and cup games until 1955, was only injured during a third of the season in 1951/52 and, in addition to two other national championships, also won an international title: in 1953 he held the final for the Coupe Latine (3-0 against AC Milan ) clean his box and thus contributed to Stade de Reims winning this competition too.

As national champions in 1955, the Rémois had qualified for the very first edition of the European Cup, but the 1955/56 season was extremely unpleasant for their long-time regular goalkeeper. Injuries and poor form (including six goals conceded in the quarter-finals against Vörös Lobogó Budapest ) led coach Albert Batteux to prefer the second goalkeeper, René-Jean Jacquet , from mid-March 1956 and renounced Sinibaldi, who is therefore also in the Parc des Princes only the spectator role remained in the 3-4 defeat in the final against Real Madrid .

The successful goalkeeper then ended his career and worked outside of football - first as managing director of a sporting goods store in Paris , then as a sales representative for a fruit juice manufacturer, general agent for the Ricard company for eastern France and finally as a representative of the Taittinger champagne winery . He also owned an olive plantation in his place of birth in Corsica .

The erroneous report of his death at this time (on October 28, 2003) is based on a mix-up with his brother Noël. On the occasion of the 100th French Cup final in May 2017, he - the oldest still living winner of the Coupe de France at the time, and also the oldest living national player of France - gave a detailed interview to the specialist journal France Football in his house in Cavalaire-sur -Mer .

Stations

  • SC Victor Hugo Marseille
  • Toulouse FC (until 1948)
  • Stade de Reims (1948–1956)

The national player

In June 1950 Paul Sinibaldi played his first international match for the Équipe Tricolore ; at 1: 4 in Belgium he didn't cut a good figure himself in a weak team, so this was also his only A game.

Palmarès

literature

  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (Ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Remarks

  1. ↑ Stade de Reims weeps Paul Sinibaldi
  2. ↑ http://ancienstadedereims.free.fr/fichiers_htm/sinibaldi.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ancienstadedereims.free.fr  
  3. ↑ Interview "Paul Sinibaldi:" On m'a porté en triomphe "" in France Football from May 23, 2017, pp. 22-25
personal data
SURNAME Sinibaldi, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Montemaggiore , Upper Corse
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2018
Place of death Marseille