Hassan Akesbi
Hassan Akesbi ( born December 5, 1934 in Tangier ) is a former Moroccan football player who played mainly in France and there to this day (as of June 2009) the most successful goalscorers of all time in the top division belongs.
The club career
The only 1,73 m tall and 62 kg light Striker began in 1950 as then under international control birthplace in Sevilliana Tangier and then switched to the traditional FUS Rabat. Here Spanish and French clubs were on the elegant attacker attentive, whose "trademark" a fine mustache was, but he initially remained in Morocco. It was not until the age of 20 he took the step into the professional football: From the 1955/56 season he played for Nîmes Olympique, which also originating from the Maghreb trainer squad Firoud had made strong for Akesbis obligation.
In Nîmes, he succeeded immediately to bring his skills to bear: In the following six years, he has always been one of the most successful ten goalscorers of Division 1 and achieved up to 1961 an average of 20 goals this season. In 1959, he became the second -, third-best league scorer in 1961, also played for the Moroccan national football team. But to a title win was not enough his marksmanship in all the years anyway: three times in succession (1958-1960) was the team from the Languedoc runner-up, and had also in the Cup Akesbis club is defeated twice in the final (1958, 1961) - too dominant in those years was the rival Stade de Reims.
Therefore Akesbi followed in 1961 to replace the amenities at this former " very strong team ", the long -term absentees Just Fontaine, and ran for the Red and Whites from the Champagne region. This he did in the following two years in the usual reliability, was again the second- or third-best scorer in the league, and in the first year of winning the championship it was then finally granted. That he rightly found himself without conversion problems in Reims, was certainly partly due to the fact that he was able to play with numerous high-profile offensive players ( Kopa, Piantoni, Vincent, Glovacki and Lucien Muller ), but also that with Abdullah Azhar already a Moroccan striker was part of the squad.
Was it to 1963 for Hassan Akesbi always only gone uphill, followed in the season 1963/64, a deep incision. The success of the team was " getting old ", her longtime coach Albert Batteux had the club before the season starts to leave, the successor Camille Cottin constantly experimenting with new formations and thus hastened the downfall of the club in the basement table yet. Also, the center forward remained below potential (only two goals in 12 matches ) and was loaned out to AS Monaco in winter. There he was eleven times used ( six goals ), in turn, was runner-up, but wanted to return to Stade de Reims necessarily, although the club was actually relegated to Division 2. 1964/65 he brought it there still on 11 goals, then moved to FUS Rabat and ended in 1970 due to an injury of his career.
Stations
- Sevilliana Tangier
- FUS de Rabat (1952-1955)
- Nîmes Olympique (1955-1961)
- Stade de Reims (1961 to December 1963 and 1964 /65)
- AS Monaco (January to June 1964)
- FUS de Rabat (1965-1970)
The National Players
Hassan Akesbi denied a hitherto not exactly to be determined number of appearances for the Moroccan national football team, and that between at least 1960 and 1970. 1961 he was part of the team that had to play in qualifying for the World Cup in Chile as Africa winner additionally against Spain and very honorably retired with 0:1 and 2:3 from the affair. He had also contributed significantly to the fact that Morocco was the first country in Africa for the Football World Cup 1970 qualifying, but had to do without because of an injury on the trip to Mexico. Hassan Akesbi applies alongside Larbi Ben Barek as one of the greatest players of his country.
After time as a player
Akesbi has worked since 1970 as a coach, including at FUS Rabat, Agadir and Hassaniya U.S. Ittihad Zemmouris Khémisset (Morocco ). Here, too, a complete documentation of his work is difficult. Until the decision of the FIFA (2004) he was one of the ambassadors who should carry Morocco 's candidacy for hosting the 2010 World Cup.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1962 ( and runner-up in 1958, 1959, 1960, Nîmes, 1963, Reims, and in 1964 with Monaco)
- French Cup Winner: None (but Finalist 1958, 1961)
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: Participation 1962/63
- 293 games and 173 goals in Division 1, of which 204/119 for Nimes, 78/48 for Reims, 11 /6 for Monaco
- 11th place on the list of top scorers of all time in France; twice the second best scorer season (1959 and 1962 in Nîmes at Reims )
- National player for Morocco