Roger Milla

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Roger Milla
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Roger Milla (2008)
Personnel
Surname Albert Roger Mooh Miller
birthday May 20, 1952
place of birth Yaoundé ,  Cameroon
size 1.76 m
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1970 Eclair de Douala 61 0(6)
1971-1974 Léopards Douala 117 (89)
1974-1977 Tonnerre Yaoundé 87 (69)
1977-1979 US Valenciennes 28 0(6)
1979-1980 AS Monaco 17 0(2)
1980-1984 SEC Bastia 113 (35)
1984-1986 AS Saint-Etienne 59 (31)
1986-1989 Montpellier La Paillade SC 95 (37)
1989-1990 JS Saint-Pierre 32 0(8)
1990 Sporting Toulon 0 0(0)
1990-1994 Tonnerre Yaoundé 116 (89)
1994-1996 Pelita Jaya 23 (23)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978-1994 Cameroon 102 (28)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Albert Roger Mooh Miller (born May 20, 1952 in Yaoundé , Cameroon ), known as Roger Milla (probably because of a spelling mistake by a registrar), is a former Cameroonian football player . He played a major role in the progression of his national team to the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup .

Club career

In 1976, Milla, who was playing for Tonnerre de Yaoundé at the time, won the “golden football” as Africa's best player at the age of 23 . In the same year he moved to France , where a true odyssey began: At US Valenciennes (1978/79), AS Monaco (1979/80) and SEC Bastia (1980-1984) he was rarely used due to injuries or too little training zeal .

He was not able to really assert himself until 1984 at the second division AS Saint-Étienne , where he also found his goal dangerousness (22 goals in 31 games) and helped Les verts to rise again in 1986. Surprisingly, Roger Milla then moved to the second division Montpellier La Paillade SC , with whom he also rose a year later, played 60 games in Division 1 (19 goals) and ended his club career there on May 31, 1989.

In 1990 he prepared - at least according to individual sources - at Sporting Toulon for the World Cup in Italy, but without playing for this club.

National player

Milla played his first international game for the national team of Cameroon in July 1978. In 1982 he took part in the World Cup finals in Spain with the West Africans who had qualified for the first time , where the "indomitable lions", although undefeated against Italy, Poland and Peru, after the preliminary round had to start their journey home.

In 1984 he took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and scored a goal in the preliminary round against Yugoslavia (final score 1: 2). Cameroon was eliminated as third in the group in the preliminary round.

Before the 1990 World Cup , the 38-year-old, who had since retired on Réunion , was asked to represent his country at the World Cup in Italy . His four goals against Romania (2-1, group stage) and Colombia (2-1 aet, round of 16) enabled Cameroon to take part in the quarter-finals. Milla celebrated each of his hits with a makossa dance on the corner flag , which was often copied in the following years. In 1990 he was voted Africa's Footballer of the Year again.

Four years later, the now 42-year-old appeared again at the World Cup finals ( 1994 in the USA ). Cameroon were eliminated in the preliminary round, but the substitute Milla scored a goal in the game against Russia on June 28, making him the oldest goalscorer at a World Cup finals. Milla's performance remained without much public response as Cameroon lost the game 6-1 and Oleg Salenko scored five times. Milla was long the oldest player to play in a World Cup finals before he was replaced by Colombian goalkeeper Faryd Mondragón (43) at the 2014 World Cup .

After the active time

After retiring from active football, Roger Milla is sports advisor to Cameroonian President Paul Biya with the rank of minister and World Cup ambassador for his country. He lives alternately in Cameroon and Montpellier . He is also an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

honors and awards

Milla is part of the FIFA 100 , a list published to mark the centenary of FIFA with the 125 best football players still alive at the anniversary in 2004.

In 1991 he was awarded the Franz Beckenbauer Prize, which was intended for particularly deserving athletes.

In 2007 he was voted the best African player of the past 50 years by the CAF . In the 1998 IFFHS election to Africa's Footballer of the Century , he finished second behind George Weah . In 2006 he was voted Player of the Past Century by the African Soccer Association .

successes

  • African champions: 1984, 1988
  • Cameroonian champion: 1972, 1973, 1974
  • African Cup Winners' Cup: 1975
  • Cameroonian Cup: 1974, 1991
  • French Football Cup: 1980, 1981
  • Champions Ligue 2: 1986-87
  • Réunion champions: 1989, 1990
  • Reunion Cup: 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ a b Martin Wassermair: The Lion's Dance. In: wassermair.net. July 20, 2007, accessed December 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Goal.com: The heroes of the World Cup participants - Cameroon's Roger Milla: The oldest World Cup player and goalscorer - Goal.com. In: goal.com. April 2, 2010, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Japan - Colombia 1: 4, World Cup, 2014 season, 3rd matchday - match report. In: kicker.de . Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Martin Wassermair: Interview with Roger Milla: "Football has changed our time". In: wassermair.net. April 2, 2009, accessed December 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Milla Best African Footballer of Half Century, Abedi Pele 5th ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ de.fifa.com
  8. ↑ World Football Star Roger Milla: The Ageless African
personal data
SURNAME Milla, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Albert Roger Mooh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaoundé , Cameroon