Émile Zermani

Émile Zermani ( born September 25, 1910 in Algiers, † 10 May 1983) was a French football player.

Club career

Zermani played for the local club CA Gombertois from the southern French city of Marseille, before in 1933 he moved to city rivals Olympique Marseille in the first division and thus made ​​the jump to professional football. The attacking midfielder made ​​his debut on 3 September 1933, a 4-0 victory to his team against OGC Nice, and also was able to contribute his first goal. Then he ran regularly on the team with which he managed the draw the cup final in 1934; Zermani brought Marseille while in the second minute lead, was at the end but with 1:2 inferior to FC Sète and thus missed a possible first title win.

In the course of the season 1934/35 he reached with eleven goals in the league not only the best goal tally in a year of this competition, but managed to once again jump into the cup final. Although unlike the previous year did not hit there, he won thanks to a 3-0 success against Stade Rennes first time his team a title. Internal team claimed Zermani in the following years his place and was one of the performers, as Olympique was able to secure 37 in the season 1936 / their first championship in club history. The player who spent his entire professional career at Marseille failed with the club the following year to defend the title. His last game in the top league denied Zermani on April 30, 1939 with a 0-2 against the Le Havre AC; to the ongoing 1939 to 1944 war championships he no longer took part, but ended in the summer of 1939 with 28 years of his career. Overall, he stood at 138 Premier League matches on the court, scoring 42 goals.

National

The player reached his debut for the French national team, when he was called up at a 1-2 defeat against Switzerland on 27 October 1935 he stuck without scoring. For a further use in the jersey of the French Zermani but did not.