Antoine Bonifaci
Antoine Bonifaci ( born September 4, 1931 in Bezons, Val- d'Oise ) is a French former football player.
Club career
Even drew a very young age Antoine Bonifaci with its originating from Corsica parents from the Ile- de -France to Villefranche -sur -Mer on the Mediterranean, where they had opened a restaurant. He played mostly on street football, as he reminded himself:
"At that time ... there were the clubs no training centers. We had to cope alone. The game practice we acquired in areas with street teams. Who ... had a football, took him to bed in the evening, that he has not stolen it. "
From the season 1948/49, Bonifaci wore the colors of the Erstdivisionärs OGC Nice. There, not very fast, but on the ball almost perfect external rotor was first used with 17 in the first team. In May 1949 he finished the final round of the national " competition of the young football player " in the Olympic Stadium of Colombes in ninth, with the soccer interested public but another talent perceived much more with Raymond Kopaszewski. In his second professional season (1949 /50) Bonifaci developed into regulars. A year later he won with Nice already the champion; also more than 19 - year-old he became the A-National player ( see below). In 1952 he defended the championship Nice, also won the National Cup ( 5-3 in the final against Girondins Bordeaux), and hence the Doublé. In this Elf Antoine Bonifaci belonged on the side of players like Ben Abdelaziz Tifour, Luis Carniglia, Désiré Carré, Victor Nurenberg, the striker Jean Courteaux and Bonifacis cousin Georges Césari the outstanding forces. In addition, he was in 1952 in the final of the Coupe Latine, in which the OGC FC Barcelona defeated 0-1. In the season 1952/53, Bonifaci was the first time without a title, even though the team under coach Mario Zatelli by Antoine Cuissard its external rotor colleagues from the national team, had further strengthened.
1953 Antoine moved Bonifaci for a transfer fee of 20 million Francs for allegedly Serie A giants Inter Milan. This transfer tried the French Football Federation to prevent by all means, one of his best players because he did not want to lose a year before the World Cup finals, and L' Equipe wrote: ". The Italian clubs lead the ball into perdition ." The so- sought-after players finally went to Italy anyway. The cadres of the 1954 champion team of Inter Bonifaci the name, however, is not recorded; this was the case until the following season. In 1955 he moved for two years to AGC Bologna. 1957 paid the Torino converted 29 million francs, to secure Bonifacis services, of which the player is supposed to have even 10 Mio.bekommen. 1959 rose from Turin to the second division, from which they returned to the House of Lords as a footballing champion after just one year. The Frenchman, however, left the FC and played for him as a person for the club not very successful season at Lane Rossi Vicenza.
1961 Bonifaci returned back to the French Division 1, where he played at Stade Français Paris for two years. But even though he kicked in this Elf on the side of many successful teammates as André Lerond, Stako, Raymond Bellot, Norbert Eschmann, Philippe Gondet, Georges Carnus or Charly Loubet, Stade Français landed on only one mid-table and only made it in the Cup even down to the last sixteen. Antoine came Bonifaci are less in use, then finished in the summer of 1963, his professional career and returned to the South of France.
About his life and his activities in the following decades, little is to determine; he shall have temporarily worked as a coach. Furthermore him in 1995 a special honor by the city was bestowed on whose streets he had kicked in the 1930s and 1940s: The football stadium of Villefranche -sur -Mer bares the name Stade Antoine- Bonifaci.
Stations
- Gymnaste Olympique Club de Nice (1948-1953)
- FC Internazionale di Milano (1953/1954-1955)
- Associazione Calcio Giocare Bologna (1955-1957)
- Torino Football Club 1906 (1957-1960, of which 1959/60 in Serie B )
- Lane Rossi Vicenza (1960 /61)
- Stade Français Paris (1961-1963)
In the National Team
After he had in 1949 already became European Junior Champion and 1950 already played for France B team - including in away wins in Turkey and Greece - Antoine Bonifaci came between May 1951 and May 1953 in twelve countries playing in the French A- team to use, there was also prompt to key players - 15 games in this period he missed only three times - and scored two goals ( one in each of his first and last game in this circle, against Northern Ireland and Wales). Against Switzerland ( 2-1 October 1951), Austria ( 2:2 in November 1951, 2:1, eleven months later): This also includes games against Italy (1:4 in June 1951) as well as against national teams from German-speaking countries were and Germany ( 3-1 October 1952).
With his move to Italy a promising national career ended early because of the French association - like most other Western European Football Associations - playing abroad " Legionaries " no longer taken into account.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1951, 1952
- French Cup Winners: 1952
- Italian Champion Series B: 1960
- Finalist of the Coupe Latine: 1952
- 12 A internationals (2 matches ) for France
- 133 games and 20 goals in the French Division 1, of which 109/19 for Nice, 24 /1 for Stade Français
- 157 games and 3 goals in the Italian Serie A