Sékou Touré (football player, 1934)

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Sékou Touré (born May 1934 in Bouaké ; † April 2, 2003 ) was an Ivorian football player who played during a large part of his active career in France , where he was repeatedly referred to as Touré Sékou .

Club career

Sékou Touré began his club career at Africa Sports National in Abidjan ; he may have played Mimosas for their local rivals ASEC before. At the turn of the year 1958/1959, the soon-to-be "respected goalscorer belonged to the first wave of players from French West Africa " who wanted to earn their money in French professional football and did not fall under the restrictions for foreigners. Touré joined the first division Olympique Alès , where his compatriot Jean Tokpa was under contract, but with whom he was relegated to Division 2 after a few missions . He made such a good impression there that FC Sochaux brought him to the top league during the transfer period in early 1960. In the team known as the “Werkself of Peugeot ”, however, shortly afterwards in March he entered the history book of French football in an extremely negative way; With a brutal foul, he ended the career of the only 26-year-old "national center forward icon" Just Fontaine from Stade Reims , who never really recovered from the double fracture of his tibia and fibula. Touré later repeatedly emphasized that his jump was with both feet first in the direction of the legs of his counterpart - for which the renowned referee Pierre Schwinté did not even warn him, although "the prints of his shoe studs were deeply engraved on the skin and tissue of his victim" without intent to injure. He visited Fontaine that same evening in the hospital, and he described the encounter from a long time lag with the words:

“He sat next to my bed for 24 hours and didn't say a word in the entire time - as dumb as a carp and depressed as a poor sinner. ... I spoke to him to get a word out of him, but nothing like that. In the end, it was me who had to calm and comfort him. "

When Touré experienced another descent with Sochaux less than six months later, he was given to the second division US Forbach . For Lorraine , he scored a dozen goals in 16 matches, which made league rivals SO Montpellier aware of him, so that he returned to southern France after six months.

The attacker undoubtedly had his most successful period in Montpellier . In the summer of 1961, Sékou Touré and his second division team not only reached the semi-finals in the French cup competition - in this, however, SOM was defeated by neighboring Olympique Nîmes with 1: 2 - but also returned to the upper house of football as champions of the second division. And he crowned his subsequent, first full season in France with a good eighth place in the final table. He had personally made a significant contribution to this respectable placement, because his 25 goals in the game meant that he was recognized as the most successful goalscorer in Division 1 . Why Montpellier surrendered him after the end of the season is not known, but that a series of short commitments followed: six months with nine league appearances at FC Grenoble , one year, but only eleven point games for OGC Nice , a four-month interlude Olympique Nîmes, then return to Nice for five games. Both Grenoble and the OGC were relegated to the second division at the end of their activities there. In 1964/65 his name was found in the squad of the Norman amateur club FC Dieppe , and in 1965/66 he played a full season in the professional field again, where he contributed to a placement in the upper midfield for second division AS Béziers during 32 points games with another 14 hits .

After a total of 87 games with 40 goals in the first, 73 games and 44 goals in the second division as well as 16 games (nine goals) in the two cup competitions ( Coupe de France and Coupe Charles Drago ), his career in France ended. Whether he stayed there or returned to Ivory Coast cannot be determined.

Stations

  • ASEC Mimosas (?)
  • Africa Sports National (Abidjan)
  • Late 1958 – late 1959: Olympique Alès
  • January – June 1960: FC Sochaux
  • July – December 1960: US Forbach
  • January 1961–1962: SO Montpellier
  • July – December 1962: FC Grenoble
  • January – December 1963: OGC Nice
  • January – approx. April 1964: Olympique Nîmes
  • End of the 1963/64 season: OGC Nice
  • 1964/65: FC Dieppe (amateur)
  • 1965/66: AS Béziers

literature

  • Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ so in Barreaud, Boisson / Vian, Guillet / Laforge and Wahl / Lanfranchi
  2. ↑ a b Barreaud, p. 135
  3. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 138
  4. ^ Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9 , p. 69
  5. ↑ From the special edition Just Fontaine des Miroir du Football from October 1962, quoted in Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 174.
  6. ^ Just Fontaine: Mes 13 vérités sur le foot. Solar, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-263-04107-9 , p. 149
  7. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 161
  8. ↑ after 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.
  9. ↑ to footballdatabase.eu (see under web links)
personal data
SURNAME Touré, Sékou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sékou, Touré (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bouaké
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2003