Claude Abbes

Claude Abbes ( born May 24, 1927 in Faugères / Hérault, † April 11, 2008 same place ) was a French football player.

The club career

The goalkeeper played as a teenager during the Second World War, first in the vicinity of his birthplace football before he moved to AS Béziers in 1951 and also made national attention on there. A year later signed him the AS Saint- Étienne, and their coach Jean Snella, who had a good hand to introduce players to the Erstligaelf, he became a regular player and was with his factual way, a support of the team, the following in the years was always placed in the top half of the table, without reaching very great success - until 1957 surprisingly won the French league title. Abbes, whose strength lay mainly on the goal line and whose trademark was an everyday sweater, also denied this season all the matches of the Greens, as the ASSE is called in France.

In 1960, he was with Saint- Étienne in his first cup final, but cashed in four goals against Monaco, but two years later it was his team that won the Coupe de France, and this time Claude Abbes had kept his box clean. At the end of this season, he finished his professional career and joined as player-coach in the third league after Montelimar, where he still occasionally ran aground with 40 years.

Stations

  • Bédarieux
  • Lobastide
  • AS Béziers (1951 /52)
  • AS Saint- Étienne (1952-1962)
  • Montelimar (1962-1967, player-manager )

The National Players

Claude Abbes, who already belonged to the French squad for the 1954 World Cup, but there was not used, was between October 1957 and December 1958 in nine internationals played in goal for the Équipe Tricolore. During this time France falls hitherto greatest success at world championships, namely the 3rd place in Sweden - and this time he was not sitting on the bench, but played from the third qualifying round encounter, because the number 1 (François Remetter ) in the first few games showed weaknesses and the actual number 2 ( Dominique Colonna ) on the eve of the match against the Scots in which a member of the Association selection committee, Alex Thépot, himself a former goalkeeper, had fallen due to " significant words" in disgrace. Despite the third place, the defense had conceded nine goals in four games with Abbes. Half a year after this success, ended his time with the Bleus.

Life after the active period

During his professional time Claude Abbes had completed a degree in electrical engineer, and from 1962 he worked at the nuclear plant near Tricastin Pierrelatte on the Rhône. In the second half of the 1970s he was involved in setting up a research facility in Saint- Étienne and visited regularly since then again the Stade Geoffroy Guichard, where it still frequently drew him as a retiree.

Palmarčs

  • French Champion: 1957
  • French Cup Winners: 1962 ( and finalist 1960)
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup: Participation in 1957/58 (2 operations against the Glasgow Rangers)
  • 9 A- international matches, World Cup bronze medalist in 1958
  • Soccer goalkeeper (France)
  • Football coach (France)
  • Born 1927
  • Died in 2008
  • Man
  • Frenchman
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