Didier Angibeaud

Didier Angibeaud Nguidjol ( born October 8, 1974 in Douala ) is a former Cameroonian football player. In 2001 he had to prematurely end his playing career due to a serious knee injury at the age of 26 years.

With Sturm Graz he was in 1999 Austrian triple- winner, 1998, he took with the national team of Cameroon participated in the World Cup 1998.

Club career

Born in Douala in 1974 Angibeaud emigrated mid-80s with his family to France and began his playing career in the youth of the AC Le Havre.

From 1991, he came in the B team from Le Havre to use before the 0:3 away win in the French Cup football against Le Touquet AC he celebrated his professional debut on March 7, 1993. After nine goals in nine games for the B team half a year later he went under coach Guy David finally into the first team and came in a row to seventeen missions in Division 1, in which he, however, the breakthrough was denied. Angibeaud, then still striker had to fight with the great competition in the form of the set Joël Tiéhi and the then emerging Ibrahim Ba, which he could never displace, and scored a single goal of the season. For the following season he was regarded as a failed talent and was again deported to the B team.

Without the prospect of returning to the first team, he then left Le Havre and moved to 1995/ 96 in the Championnat de France National for FC Istres. In Istres he was converted in a row attacking midfielder, which turned out to godsend for players and club. With seven goals in 27 games this season he was promoted alongside the equally talented Julien Rodriguez top performer of the team and failed with the club short of promotion to the Division 2

As one of the best players in the league Angibeaud was not to keep for Istres and changed in the following season for CFN champion Sporting Toulon. The ambitious Toulon, which had obliged the veterans Stéphane Demol and Jean -Marc Ferreri under considerable financial outlay, he was able to establish for the first time in a professional team. He acted mainly as a puppet master from the midfield, from which especially in attack Ferreri / Moses, which could jointly achieve 28 goals benefited. Contrary to the strong offensive but made ​​a weak defensive performance for the clear miss of the season goal ascent, whereupon the expensive team fell apart again.

Also Angibeaud was under disposals and switched to Erstligaabsteiger OGC Nice. Although he played in a row at the trained by the Belgian Michel Renquin team again in a club the far remained short of its potential, but was due to strong performance as one of the few winners and has won the nomination in the final squad of Cameroon for the Football World Cup 1998 in his adopted home of France rewarded.

After the World Cup, where he was employed in all three group matches of his country, he was in a row, despite a negative fitness tests, as "King of transfer " of the reigning Austrian champions SK Sturm Graz presented. Prior to a change in the Ligue 1 had failed due to the uncertain physical condition of the player, which Storm took the chance for a commitment. President Kartnig himself, who wanted to present in the club's history necessarily a star after Langerringen the first league title, gave the order to ignore the fitness condition without this coach Ivica Osim agreed with. Osim in turn was a result of the players do not need to, since the well-functioning midfield could be zusammgehalten from the previous season.

Nevertheless, Angibeaud developed in succession to one of the better obligations of this era, completed when fit, good games and developed into a kind of crowd favorite. In his debut season he was a member of the most successful assault team in the club's history, won the Triple Austrian and celebrated the first time, enter the Champions League. However, due to its susceptibility to injury he was only 14 league operations team scores a goal and two appearances without a goal at the European level. In the season 1999/2000 he was injured only one in the Champions League on the ball before he had to end his career in the spring of 2001 due to chronic knee problems finally in seven league and inserts.

National

After he had risen after strong performances at club level in 1997 for national player, he was appointed to the final line-up of his country for the soccer World Cup 1998 in France by coach Claude Le Roy.

There he was in the first group match against Chile, after a red card for defender Rigobert Song at 1-1 when midfielder stabilizer for Salomon Olembe into play. In the second group match, which, he stood 0-3 defeat against Italy then, as in the final group game, against early withdrawal against Austria in the starting line-up of his team. In the game against Austria, he was one of the strongest players of Cameroon.

After the World Cup he came twice more in the national team for use before he could no longer play for his country because of his sudden career end.

Others

After end of his career he was indirectly involved in the transfer of Amadou Rabihou and Thierry Tazemeta to Austria. Both came of its recommendation for a trial in a storm, with Rabihou was committed and Tazemeta through his audition by Rupert Marko discovered and brought to the SV Horn.

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