Georges Carnus
Georges Carnus ( born August 13, 1942 in Gignac- la- Nerthe, Bouches -du -Rhône ) is a former French football goalkeeper.
In the club
Georges Carnus grew on the southern outskirts of Marignane on; in the forthcoming Union Sportive he started playing football. At just 17, he moved to AS Aix. There he developed into an athletic, quiet and safe start goalie and came 1960/61, to the first missions in the Zweitligaelf. After Aix ' last place in the table at the end of this season, signed him to the capital club Stade Français.
In his first year there, he was not a first-choice goalkeeper, but from the season 1962/63 he almost missed a match during the next five years. His team landed four times in succession only in 15th place of the final table Division 1, but at Carnus has this mediocrity apparently located only a small part, because in the spring of 1963 he was first appointed to the French national team. In the country's cup competition succeeded Stade Français in the season 1964/65, to advance to the semifinals, where he though the UA Sedan- Torcy subject. When the club in 1967 but then in league - 20th were relegated to Division 2, took the newly signed successful coach Albert Batteux Georges Carnus the newly crowned champions AS Saint- Étienne.
In the Verts ( " the Greens " and ASSE are two common names for the football players from the industrial city of Saint- Étienne ) Carnus immediately became the backing of an offensive joyful team with her in the next four years, three league titles and twice the Coupe de France won in 1968 and 1970 respectively even both titles in the same season and thus twice the Doublé. In this elf was gathered with Bereta, Bosquier, Herbin, Jacquet, Keïta, Larqué, Mekhloufi and Hervé Revelli more than half the national team to the 1969 Lopez, Repellini, Patrick Revelli, Santini and Sarramagna more talented players to met. In the European Cup of Champions 1969/70 Carnus has been the focus, as he after a 0-2 defeat at Bayern Munich in the second leg (3-0) kept his goal clean and his team thus a place in the next round enabled. In 1970, he helped with the highest Cup Final victory of all time (5-0 to FC Nantes - this country has record in 2007 still existed ) out to play, and was first elected to the French Player of the Year.
In the early summer of 1971, followed by his equally surprising as media- prone farewell to the ASSE. A few games before season's end - the elf was standing with a two point lead at No. 1 and sent on to win the fifth successive title - were the goalie and his teammates Bernard Bosquier in a daily newspaper exchange intentions denied at least the latter strongly rumored. Then, the club president Roger Rocher threw both players immediately from the squad and took it into account that the Greens finished the season as runner-up behind only Olympique Marseille, which was joined by the two sacked then. This process has burdened the relationship between the two clubs in southern France for many years.
Even with Marseille won Georges Carnus right at the end of his first season, the rolled gold - from a good team also rose Skoblar, Magnusson and Gress, in fact - and he remained despite the change still No. 1 in the national team. He was also once again become a player of the year at the end of 1971. The two titles from 1972, however, were his last: 1973 Olympique was at least still third in the championship, one year later, however, only Tabellenzwölfter. In this last season, he experienced a sporty low point of his career, when you came with 0:6 in the UEFA Cup first leg at FC Cologne under the wheels. Shortly after the last match of the Division 1 met Carnus then the stroke of fate (see below), which left him with only 31 years of his gloves hanging from one day to the other on the nail.
Stations
- Union Sportive de Marignane (1950-1959)
- Association Sportive Aixoise (1959-1961, as a teenager and in D2)
- Stade Français Paris (1961-1967)
- Association Sportive Saint- Étienne (1967-1971)
- Olympique Marseille (1971-1974)
In the national team
Georges Carnus was inserted between April 1963 and May 1973 a total of 36 A- international matches in the Équipe Tricolore. He received his first call- already the age of 20, with double world champion Pele personally made sure that Carnus this could not go to my head: in Brazil's 3-2 victory in Colombes he overcame the young keeper three times. It took three and a half years before he was back in goal for the Bleus - and this time Hungary János Farkas striker gave him an even four goals. Shortly before the goalkeeper had part of the French squad at the 1966 World Cup, but was come to England to no use, because coach Guérin preferred the older Marcel Aubour him. Under the interim coaches Jean Snella, José Arribas and Just Fontaine, he played 1966/67, five games in a row, but the goalkeeper he was finally only by its performance in the 1-1 draw against West Germany in September 1968. Until May 1973, he was absent in only four of 32 international matches; with the national team to participate in a major tournament, Carnus, however, was not granted at this time.
Abrupt End of career
End of June 1974 to the beginning of the summer break, Georges Carnus crashed by car between Laval and Vitre; he recovered from his injuries, but his wife and two daughters did not survive the accident. After his physical recovery, he settled in Aix -en- Provence down, took, as some other football players after their careers end, a job with the French sales organization of Adidas and " threw himself into the work, to displace his personal tragedy." He also volunteered with the youth national teams of the Ligue de la Méditerranée, the regional breakdown of the French Football Federation.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 1968, 1969, 1970, Saint- Étienne, Marseille 1972
- French Cup Winners: 1968, 1970, 1972
- 410 games in Division 1, of which 171 with Stade Français, 130 with AS Saint- Étienne and 109 with Olympique Marseille
- 36 A- internationals for France, including 6 in his time at Paris, 18 in Saint -Étienne and 12 in Marseille
- 22 European Cup inserts, 12 with Saint- Étienne (all in Masters competition ) and 10 with Marseille ( 6 in the national champion and four in the UEFA Cup )
- French Player of the Year: 1970, 1971