Serge Masnaghetti

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Serge Masnaghetti (born April 15, 1934 in Mancieulles , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle ) is a former French football player and coach .

Club career

The child of an Italian immigrant family grew up near Briey in the Lorraine iron ore basin - Roger Piantoni and Michel Platini also come from this area - and played there as a youngster for AS Giraumont , from which two more later with Bronislav Rodzik and Jean-Claude Piumi Professional footballers emerged. The Algerian war and two years of compulsory military service interrupted Serge Masnaghetti's rise until 1959; only then could the already 25-year-old center forward switch to professional football. Together with Piumi, he signed a contract with the US Valenciennes-Anzin , in whose sporting " Belle Époque " in the 1960s both played a major role. Under coach Robert Domergue , the USVA placed itself in 1960 and again from 1963 to 1966 always on a single-digit table rank of Division 1 , twice (1965 and 1966) as a league third even within reach of the championship title . In between there was only one year in the second division in 1961/62 , in which the 1.72 m tall attacker with his 21 goals contributed significantly to the immediate resurgence. In the cup competition , too , he made quite a lot of progress with Valenciennes, without any great success. In the semi-finals of the 1963/64 season, Olympique Lyon prevented the final after Masnaghetti's team had previously been able to turn off AS Saint-Étienne , FC Nancy and FC Rouen . Ironically, the center forward missed a penalty against Lyons goalkeeper Marcel Aubour when the score was 0: 1.

Serge Masnaghetti was seen as complete, fast, an excellent technician, with both feet and head dangerous. He set several bests in French professional football. Between December 1962 and April 1963 he scored at least one goal on 13 consecutive match days (17 stalls in total); and in 1966 he achieved the league's fastest hat trick when he scored three times in seven minutes against OGC Nice . The latter record was not beaten until 2005, while the former is still in place in 2008. Since the turn of the year 1963/64, Masnaghetti increasingly suffered from heart problems, which forced him to end his career at the age of thirty-two. In the season after the rise (1962/63) he was top scorer with 35 goals , which he set Gunnar Andersson's record from the 1952/53 season. In the seasons 1964/65 (5th place with 16 hits) and 1965/66 (15 goals, 12th place) he landed at the top of this list. In particular with Thadée Cisowski and later Paul Sauvage he had other dangerous attackers at his side at the USVA.

Stations

  • Association Sportive de Giraumont (until 1959)
  • Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin (1959–1966, of which 1961/62 in D2)

In the national team

Serge Masnaghetti was an amateur national player, played for the B- and two matches for France's A-team . There he made his debut in January 1963, among others at the side of his club mate Joseph Bonnel , in the 0-0 in Spain . On Christmas Day 1963, next to Georges Lech and Yvon Goujon again in the middle of the storm, he scored the goal of the interim 1-1 draw against Belgium (final score 1: 2). Nevertheless, he was no longer considered by national coach Henri Guérin .

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing
  • French cup winner: Neither (but semi-finals in 1964)
  • 2 international matches (1 goal) for France
  • 155 games and 90 goals in Division 1 , all for Valenciennes
  • Top scorer of the D1: 1962/63

Life after time as a player

After the forced early retirement, Masnaghetti settled near Valenciennes , in the vicinity of which he coached a number of amateur teams, for example from Solesmes , Trith-Saint-Léger and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux and the Belgian Fameries . He owned a bar tabac in Marly , where he lived , for seven years , which he then sold; until 1988 worked as a taxi driver .

literature

  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 137
  2. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 93
  3. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 106
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 380
  5. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 366
  6. ↑ Chaumier, p. 209; Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 93
  7. ↑ Chaumier, p. 209
  8. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , pp. 161-167 and 252
  9. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, pp. 949f.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 93; Chaumier, p. 209

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personal data
SURNAME Masnaghetti, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Mancieulles