Mahi Khennane

Mahi Khennane ( born October 21, 1936 in Mascara ) is a former Algerian- French football player and coach. He has denied both France and Algeria for internationals. In France, he was often simply as " Mahi " refers to dive into some books even under Khennane Mahi on.

Club career

Mahi Khennane came as a 19- year-old from Gallia Club from his time still to French North Africa belonging to the birthplace Breton Erstdivisionär Stade Rennes UC. He grew to become an elegant, while assertive and shot strong center forward who played his first official match in the professional league in October 1956. When the club at season's end after two defeats descent into the Barrages in the Division 2, he stayed with SRUC 1958 and returned back into the footballing House of Lords. Overall, he was six years Rennes ' colors (also his coach from 1961) and Yvon Goujon where he drew attention to himself on the side of players like Henri Guérin, Antoine Cuissard. For the first time 1958/59, he appeared in the D1 - scoring charts high on ( 4th place with 23 goals ). This he was able to repeat two more times: 1961 /62 in his final year for Rennes, and 1962/63 ( 5th place with 18 goals and fourth with 22).

In April 1958, the middle of the Algerian War, Khennane had personally - unlike many other Algerian professional players - decided against playing for the " independence of Self" in his home country; thus he could to the French national team (see below ) later. In addition, it drew France Football with the Étoile d'Or as the best player of 1960/ 61. However, his team had always finished in the championship only on a lower middle field rank and was not gone all these years 12th place. In the cup competition Khennane was equally accurate - so he steered in the season 1958/59, as Stade Rennes brought it to the semifinals, including two goals for a 3-2 quarter-final victory over Olympique Lyon at.

From 1962 to 1965 he played for FC Toulouse in a successful Elf ( 1963 Liga-7. and even 5th 1964); During this time he also found internationally for the now newly independent Algeria into account. Then followed a season at Olympique Nîmes; although Olympique could prevent the descent into the relegation round, Mahi Khennane was commissioned in 1966 to Red Star and 1967 back to Brittany to FC Lorient (both in the second division). After three years as player-manager of his now renamed GCR origin Muaskar club he finished, aged 34, his career as a player.

Stations

  • Gallia Club de Mascara ( to 1956 )
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1956-1962, 1957/58 in D2)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1962-1965)
  • Nîmes Olympique (1965 /66)
  • Red Star Olympique Audonien (1966 /67 in D2)
  • Football Club de Lorient (1967 /68, as in D2)
  • Ghali Chabab Muaskar Rai (1968-1971, as player-coach )

In the National Team

In October and November 1961 Khennane played two A- caps for France; both ended with away defeats: 0-3 against Belgium 0-1 in the World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria. This 0:1 in a balanced game in which Bulgaria's goal came in the 90th minute, " rang the From the French hopes of a " be able to plan for the World Cup finals in Chile. Khennane complained afterwards in the French press, his opposite Kowatschew 've played with all illicit means, without the Czechoslovak referee had intervened.

After his birth country had become independent mid-1962, he was first appointed in 1963 in the Algerian national team. The exact number of his games for the fennecs - " Desert Foxes " is a common term for this team - has not to determine; in one source it is specified by three. Certainly Mahi Khennane was on New Year's 1964 in Algiers in their ranks when it came against West Germany. He overcame after only eight minutes goalkeeper Fritz Ewert before from RC Lens France another professional established the 2-0 win with Ahmed Oudjani.

Coaching career

Mahi Khennane has worked since 1968 as a player-manager of GCR Muaskar, before he returned in the early 1970s again to Brittany and the team of U.S. Saint -Servan -Saint -Malo trained. Then he led the Cormorans Sportifs de Penmarc'h for promotion to the third-highest league. In the 1980s, he was back at his club from Mouaskar on the sidelines; with the GCRM him came in 1984 winning the Algerian Cup, so far the only major title that this association could get, and it remained the only Khennanes.

The now living in Brittany " Mahi " is still interested in the world of football; last he took the end of 2010 the opportunity to submit a member of the jury vote for French Player of the Year, to which entitled him his own award of 1961. In the first three places of his personal list he put three offensive players.

Palmarčs

  • French Champion: None
  • French Cup Winner: None (but semi-finalist 1959)
  • 2 'A' matches ( no hit) for France, at least 3 'A' matches (at least 1 results) for Algeria
  • 237 games and 98 goals in Division 1, of which 161/61 Rennes, 61/31 for Toulouse, 15 /6 for Nîmes
  • 62 games and 22 goals in Division 2, of which 29/12 Rennes, 17/4 for Red Star, 16 /6 for Lorient
  • Won the Étoile d'Or for best first division of the 1960/61 season
  • As manager: Algerian champions 1984
Mascara, Algeria Promotion and relegation Olympique Lyonnais Toulouse FC US Saint-Malo Championnat National 1956–57 French Division 1 Kees Rijvers 1957–58 French Division 1 Maurice Lafont 1958–59 French Division 1 1959–60 French Division 1 1960–61 French Division 1 1961–62 French Division 1 1962–63 French Division 1 1963–64 French Division 1 1964–65 French Division 1 Robert Herbin 1965–66 French Division 1 Roger Lemerre 1966–67 French Division 1 1967–68 French Division 1 1968–69 French Division 1 1969–70 French Division 1 Bernard Bosquier Mohamed Salem 1970–71 French Division 1 1971–72 French Division 1 1972–73 French Division 1 1973–74 French Division 1 Jean-Marc Guillou 1974–75 French Division 1 1975–76 French Division 1 1976–77 French Division 1 1977–78 French Division 1 Maxime Bossis 1978–79 French Division 1 1979–80 French Division 1 1980–81 French Division 1 Dominique Dropsy 1981–82 French Division 1 1982–83 French Division 1 1983–84 French Division 1 1984–85 French Division 1 1985–86 French Division 1 1986–87 French Division 1 1987–88 French Division 1 Bernard Pardo 1988–89 French Division 1 Basile Boli 1989–90 French Division 1 1990–91 French Division 1 1991–92 French Division 1 1993–94 French Division 1 1994–95 French Division 1 Jean-Guy Wallemme 1995–96 French Division 1 Sonny Anderson 1996–97 French Division 1 Ali Benarbia 1997–98 French Division 1 Fabien Barthez 1998–99 French Division 1 Alexander Vencel (footballer born 1967) 1999–2000 French Division 1 Bernard Lama 2000–01 French Division 1 Pascal Cygan 2001–02 French Division 1 2002–03 Ligue 1 2003–04 Ligue 1 2004–05 Ligue 1 Cris (footballer) 2005–06 Ligue 1 2006–07 Ligue 1 2007–08 Ligue 1 Hugo Lloris 2008–09 Ligue 1 2009–10 Ligue 1 2010–11 Ligue 1 Eden Hazard 2011–12 Ligue 1 2012–13 Ligue 1
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