Jean Baeza

Jean Baeza ( born August 20, 1942 in Algiers, † February 21, 2011 in Cannes ) was a French- Algerian football player. The central defender, who ran aground in the later 1960s for the Équipe Tricolore, completed over 150 games for Olympique Lyon won the Coupe de France in 1972 and 1973 Challenge of Champions there.

Career

Jean Baeza was born in 1942 in Algiers and began his career Racing Universitaire d' Alger in his home country before he in 1961 moved to Racing Club de Paris, a distinguished club in Division 1, the top division in France. However, he moved in the same year for AS Cannes in the Division 2, which represented his first stop in France's professional football and to which he would return once more to the end of his career. In Cannes Baeza came regularly used and positioned himself with the team mostly in the lower middle of the table, before surprisingly managed to carve out in the season 1964/65 in third place in the Division 1. Although the direct descent followed the following season back in the second tier, however, Baeza was able to present on a bigger stage, so it took the AS Monaco under contract at the end of this season.

For Monaco, he stood from 1966 to 1968 on the court and completed in this period 59 league games. In addition, in this period his commitment was in the French national team, for whom he made ​​his debut in a 4-1 success in qualifying for Euro 1968 on Poland. The Équipe Tricolore sat in their qualifying group as their group by, but failed in the quarterfinals to Yugoslavia, where Baeza from the match against Poland all five games played up to leaving. There were three friendly matches, one of which 1-3 against Spain depicted his last 'A' game. At that time he had been transferred from Monaco to Red Star Paris, remained there only a year and joined in the sequence Olympique Lyon.

In the following five years with " OL" Baeza formed together with Raymond Domenech, Bernard Lhomme (both side defense ) and Ljubomir Mihajlovic ( central defense ) a compact defensive line, which gradually led the team from the lower mid-table up into the top five. In 1972 the team won the Coupe de France, where Baez because of a lock could not take part in the 1-0 final win over FC Nantes. The following year, they made sure ( with Baez ) the Super Cup, where again last year's champion Nantes was the opponent. After Lyon in the 1973/74 season with the third place went to the best placement for a long time, Baez left the team. Overall, he was in more than 150 league games for " OL" on the court.

Subsequently Baez returned with 32 years to his first professional club, AS Cannes, back, to end his career in the Division 2 by the year 1978. After his playing career, he settled in Cannes, where he died in 2011 at the age of 68 years.

Achievements

  • Coupe de France: 1972
  • French Football Supercup: 1973
AS Monaco FC Olympique Lyonnais 1964–65 French Division 2 1965–66 French Division 1 1973–74 French Division 1
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