Alain Gaspoz

Alain Gaspoz ( born May 16, 1970 in Benin ) is a Beninese football player with a Swiss passport. During his playing career he was active in various Swiss clubs. Gaspoz was eligible to play for the Benin national football team for which he played some matches.

  • 3.1 As a player
  • 3.2 As a coach

Playing career

Association

Gaspoz began his professional career in 1989 in his Swiss hometown, when unterklassigen FC Fribourg. In the summer of 1991, the defensive player joined Étoile Sportive FC Malley, who was at that time in the National League B, ie the second- highest division of the Alpine country, active. Right off the bat managed Gaspoz team regular. But he could not escape relegation. Thus, the paths of the two parties to the end of the season again separated and Gaspoz joined the first division club FC St. Gallen. After he was there but often just spectators, it drew the defender in 1993 for FC Fribourg. In the second division, he was immediately re- achievers, then said goodbye but in summer 1994 again and signed with FC Winterthur. With these he managed second place in Group B of the National League B, but then missed the rise in the final round. Gaspoz played a good season and then the first division side FC Sion secured the services of defensive actor as the new football year. Gaspoz stayed for three years. In the first year he celebrated with the FCS runner-up title. The following season the club managed the first place. In the summer of 1998 Gaspoz Sion left and transferred to FC Lugano who rose straight into the premier league. He remained there until 2002, apart from a brief spell at FC Zurich from October to December 1999. Lugano 2002 After relegation to Gaspoz was looking for a new club and found this at the club Servette FC schweizen top Genève. Under coach Roberto Morinini he admittedly came to regular assignments, though he left Geneva after only a year, and signed for FC Aarau. Knapp was assured by the league in League 1 Gaspoz changed again when he received an offer from his former employer's FC Sion. In 2006 he reached the final of the Swiss Cup this 2005/06. In the match against BSC Young Boys, they made sure the success after a 1-1 5-3 in a penalty shootout. Gaspoz led his team as a captain on the field and stood over the full available for 120 minutes. In the penalty shootout, he met the interim 4-2 for his team. After another season Gaspoz ended his active career in 2007, but tied up again for a few more years of the football shoe for the unterklassigen FC Bragnes, where he was active as a player-coach.

National

Gaspoz was national player of Benin. His international game he was against Ghana in the 1-0 victory. It was the first success of Benin and Ghana, where Gaspoz the winning goal succeeded. In 2004 he was part of the squad at the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia. To his competitive debut of the defensive player came in the match against South Africa on 27 January 2004. This coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefio offered to him in the starting lineup of his team. Benin already retired from after the first round. Gaspoz came in two of three possible encounters for use.

Four years later, at the African Cup of Nations in 2008, the defender was again in the squad of the Benin selection. It belonged to the permanent staff of coach Reinhard Fabisch. In all three matches of the group stage Gaspoz wa in the starting lineup and was replaced only once. The Benin lost all three games and failed again in the first round. At 37, he was the oldest player in the tournament.

Coaching career

After his first attempts as a coach in Switzerland at FC Bagnes, took Gaspoz 2009, the head coach office at the ASPAC FC, ​​in his birthplace. With these he was 2010 champion of the Championnat National du Bénin, the top league in the country. It was the first title in club history. It was also the first professional season in Benin at all and the league had to be structured. Gazpos said: " During the championship six times, we have changed the mode again until it worked well. "

Achievements

As a player

  • Swiss Champion LNB with FC Fribourg: 1991
  • Swiss champion with FC Sion: 1997
  • Swiss Cup winner with FC Sion: 1996
  • Swiss Cup winner with FC Sion: 1997
  • Swiss Cup winner with FC Sion: 2006

As a coach

  • Beninese champion with ASPAC FC: 2010

Trivia

  • Gaspoz is the son of a Swiss development worker and a resident of Benin. At the age of six months, his parents separated and Gaspoz went with his father and his older sisters.
  • The former professional football player has three sons and a daughter.
  • Gaspoz committed to the campaign " Right to Play ", an organization dedicated to improving the humanitarian status in Africa. Next to him, the Swiss David and Philipp Degen and Raphael Wicky and other athletes are active.
  • 2010 was Gaspoz in the list of nominees in the " Freiburger Player of the Century." Next to him, even as former Frédéric Chassot, Edouard- Robert Duriaux, Stéphane Henchoz and the still active Johan Vonlanthen were nominated.
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