Sékou Touré (footballer)

Sékou Touré ( MAY 1934 in Bouaké, † 2003) was an Ivorian footballer who has played for much of his playing career in France, where he was repeatedly referred to as Sékou Touré.

Club career

Sékou Touré began his club career with Africa Sports National in Abidjan; He may also previously been played in its local rivals ASEC Mimosas. Around the turn of the year 1958/1959 was one of the soon " respected scorer of the first wave of players from French West Africa," who wanted to earn in the French professional football their money and did not fall under the restrictions for foreigners. Touré joined the Olympique Alès Erstivisionär, in which also his countryman Jean Tokpa was under contract, but with which he descended into the Division 2 after only a few uses. There he left behind after all such a good impression that brought him FC Sochaux during the transfer period beginning in 1960 in the highest league. The team considered to be " works of Self Peugeot " he added, however, shortly afterwards in March on a very negative way in the history book of French football; a crunching tackle he ended the career of the only 26 -year-old " national center forward icon " Just Fontaine of Stade Reims, who never recovered from the case suffered double fracture of tibia and fibula properly again. Touré has later repeatedly stressed his jump in with both feet first in the direction of the legs of his opponent - for the renowned referee Pierre Schwinte not even testified against him, even though " the imprints of his shoe cleat had been deeply imprinted in the skin and tissue of its victim " - is done without injury intent. He attended Fontaine on the same evening in the hospital, and this described the encounter from a large time interval up with the words:

" He was sitting 24 hours next to my bed and said, in the whole time not a word - dumb as a carp and depressed like a poor Sünderlein. I spoke to him ... to elicit a word to him, but nothing like that. In the end I was the one who had to comfort and calm him down. "

As Touré than six months later, a renewed descent experienced with Sochaux, he was delivered to the second division side U.S. Forbach. For Lorraine, he scored 16 points in a dozen games hit what the league rivals SO Montpellier was pay attention to him, so he returned to southern France after half a year.

In Montpellier, the attacker had undoubtedly his most successful period. In the summer of 1961, Sékou Touré reached its second division team not only the semi-finals in the French Cup competition - is, however, subject to the SOM neighbors Nîmes Olympique with 1:2 - but returned as a champion of the second division also back into the footballing House of Lords. And his subsequent, first complete season in France he crowned with a good eighth place in the final table. He had personally contributed significantly to this respectable placement, for his 25 point game results meant that he was honored as the most successful strikers of the Division 1. Why Montpellier nonetheless gave him after the season, is not known, but it does mean that then again a series of short commitments joined: six months with nine league appearances for FC Grenoble, a year in it but only eleven point games for OGC Nice, a four-month spell at Olympique Nimes, then return for five games to Nice. Both Grenoble and the OGC descended to the second division at the end of his activities there. 1964/65, his name was in the squad of the Norman amateur club FC Dieppe, and 1965/66 he played again a full season in the professional sector, where he contributed to the Zweitdivisionär AS Béziers during 32 point games with another 14 hits for a placement in the upper middle.

After a total of 87 games with 40 goals in the first 73 games and 44 goals in the second division and 16 games ( nine goals ) in the two cup competitions ( Coupe de France and Coupe Charles Drago ) ended his career in France. Whether he remained there or returned to the Ivory Coast, can not be determined.

Stations

• ASEC Mimosas (?)
• Africa Sports National ( Abidjan )
• The end of 1958 - end 1959: Olympique Alès
• January-June 1960: FC Sochaux
• July-December 1960: U.S. Forbach
• January 1961-1962: SO Montpellier
• July-December 1962, Grenoble FC
• January to December 1963: OGC Nice
• January -ca. April 1964: Olympique Nîmes
• End of the season 1963/64: OGC Nice
• 1964/65: FC Dieppe ( amateur level )
• 1965/66: AS Béziers