Nestor Combin
Nestor Combin ( born December 29, 1940 in Las Rosas, Santa Fe Province, Argentina ) is a former French footballer.
Club career
Five years in Lyon
Born to French parents in Argentina, his professional career began in 1959, the center forward, which a very " brisk " shot was his own, at Olympique Lyon, for whom he scored 68 goals in five Erstligaspielzeiten in 131 encounters. Together with Fleury Di Nallo and initially even Eugène Njo - Léa he made a torhungrigen inner storm with class. Except in his first season, he appeared every year on the list of league scorers front seats: 1960/61, ( 10 with 15 goals ), 1961/62 ( 14, 13 goals), 1962/63 ( 13, 16) and in his best year, 1963/64, ( 3, 23). At his departure from the Rhône- metropolis him his first title win came when Lyon won the French Cup; in the final against Girondins Bordeaux Combin scored both goals in the 2-0 final score. At the beginning of this year, 1964, he was also appointed for the first time in the national team.
In the season 1963/64, played Olympique at the European level, although she had lost the 1963 Cup final against AS Monaco. But since the Monegasque who also became master of Division 1, Lyon France represented in the European Cup Winners' Cup. After wins B 1913 Odense Olympiakos Piraeus went in the quarterfinals against Hamburger SV; after a 1-1 draw in Volksparkstadion shot Combin the Hanseatic League with his two goals in the second leg (2-0) almost alone from the competition. In this second part, known for his occasional temper striker was - the so at a young age the nickname " Nestor la foudre " ( German: " the lightning " ) was - after a blow against the HSVer Dieter Seeler dismissed and was semi-final first leg (0-0 at the Stade Gerland against Sporting Lisbon ) is blocked. In the return leg in Portugal's capital Combins the lead was enough for a surprising 1-1 draw, which at that time had a third game on neutral ground the consequence that there was no away goals rule. The playoff lost Lyon then in Madrid - two days after a league game, and five days before the French Cup 1964 final - against eventual European champions 0-1. Combin and his teammates remained weak consolation that in European competitions except Stade Reims still no French club had ever come so far. Together with its operations in the Fairs Cup 1960/61 and 1961/62 (both first-round off against a Cologne city selection or Sheffield Wednesday ) he has with the Gones ( " the boys " in France is the nickname of Olympique ) in 12 European games 11 goals shot.
As a professional in Italy
He packed the next six years in the Italian league on his boots and sat down there as well by. In the season 1964/65 he played at Juventus and won for the first time the Coppa Italia. After a year when he stormed Varese FC at AC Turin, was there again in 1968 Cup Winners' Cup and then went to AC Milan. In 1969, he took with the Rossoneri the European Champions Cup - although he was not in the final game on the court - and won later this year against Estudiantes de La Plata (3:0 and 1:2 ) and the World Cup. In a team with stars such as Rivera, Prata and quick Inger Combin scored in the first leg 2-0, but the return match he was the victim of a sports scandal. A native of Argentina Combin was denounced as " traitors ", and of the Estudiantes players Alberto Poletti and Ramon Aguirre Sanchez so brutally trimmed with head and elbow joints, that he was still passed out on the court. Instead of helping him, arrested him, the Argentine police because he had supposedly not done his military service for Argentina - which was absurd considering the fact that Combin was a Frenchman. Combin was released from custody the next day, and both Poletti and Suarez received long sentences. He was the first Frenchman who could adorn yourself with this intercontinental title.
Back in France
In 1970 he returned to France and completed at FC Metz to 1973, 59 games in Division 1 this made a total of 34 matches show that he had lost none of his scoring prowess: 1971 /72 ( 12th place with 16 goals ) and 1972 / 73 ( 5, 18 hits ), he appeared promptly back onto the front seats of the scoring charts. His last professional stop was Red Star, descended straight into the Division 2. That it came to immediately return to the footballing House of Lords, was due not least to Combin, which was 24 times successfully. During the following season 1974/75 he was ten years back together with Fleury Di Nallo in a team; but despite 15 goals in 31 games (11th League goal scorers ) he could with his old Lyon colleagues not prevent Red Star finished the season as Table. Combin then finished his successful professional career.
The National Players
In the Équipe Tricolore Nestor Combin completed between April 1964 and April 1968 eight A- international matches (including three each in his time at Lyon and Varese, one each at Juve and Torino ), scoring four goals. The fact that he could not bring on more missions, was due to two factors: on the one he had with Philippe and Hervé Revelli Gondet two strong competitors, and also not once denied the clubs in his Italian years his approval for the Bleus. He also belonged to the French World Cup squad in 1966, but was used in England in only one game ( against Mexico).
Life after the active period
From the late 1970s Combin led for many years a clothing store in Toulon; later he moved to the near Montpellier, where he again joined the football so far closer than he was an honorary capacity for Montpellier HSC in various capacities, including as a scout. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, he sat down to rest professionally.
Palmarčs
- French Cup Winners: 1963/64,
- Italian Cup Winners: 1964 /65 1967/68
- Winner of the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1968/69
- Winner of the World Cup: 1969
- 8 A- international caps and 4 goals for France; World Cup participant in 1966
- 221 games and 117 goals in Division 1, 172 games and 47 goals in Serie A