Serge Chiesa
Serge Chiesa ( born December 25, 1950 in Casablanca ) is a former French footballer. The 1.62 m small playmaker who for 14 years, almost his entire professional career at one club, Olympique Lyon, spent, was designated by the fans affectionately as " the little Mozart ".
Club career
Born in the time nor French Morocco, offensive left midfielder grew up in Clermont- Ferrand and was a member of the football department of AS Mont Ferrand. In 1967 he won the national " competition of the young footballer " ( Concours du jeune footballeur ); two years later was Serge Chiesa professional player when Erstdivisionär Olympique Lyon and in his first season there, nor the age of 18, also for national team ( see below). He was " thin, highly talented, an incomparable dribbler and often brilliant playmaker who was often compared to Raymond Kopa ." For Lyon, he played the next 14 years, mid-1970 in a team with two teammates who should be coach later both, namely Aimé Jacquet - Olympique also coached 1976-1980 - and Raymond Domenech. Serge Chiesa was the ideas and flank sender scorer as Fleury Di Nallo, Guy André and Bernard Lacombe, but also self as an excellent free kick taker goal threat. In 1973/74 he first appeared on the top 15 in league goalscorers; Two seasons later he had his most successful year in this regard when he was 18- point game hits eight best scorer of Division 1.
To the championship played Chiesa with Lyon until 1983 but hardly ever with - too little constant were often the achievements of the team. Two third (1974, 1975), a fifth (1972 ) and two sixth grades (1977, 1981) in the final ranking were multiple placements near the relegation zone over, so 1970 ( 15 ), 1976 and 1982 ( 16 ), 1978 ( 17 ) and in 1980, when Olympique than 18 remained only because of the successful recovering from Barrages in the league. In the National Cup competition, however, Serge Chiesa was washed three times with OL in the final; twice was beaten while his team, namely in 1971, 0-1 against Stade Rennes and 1976 after a 0-2 against Olympique Marseille. But in 1973 succeeded in Lyon in the final, a 2-1 win over FC Nantes, which for the 22 -year-old midfielder his first - title meant - and single.
In the summer of 1983, Olympique Lyon last but one had to start the transition to the second division. After 475 -point games and 120 goals for Lyon Chiesa went with this route, however, for a new club, the U.S. Orléans. His new team played two years in the upper third of the table, but missed both times the rise. Therefore, in 1985 he moved to Clermont -Ferrand back; where he played with the Clermont FC three years in the third and 1988/89 again in the second division (among other things on the side of Andrzej Szarmach ). On the occasion of immediate re descent, he finished in 1989, now 38 years old, finally his career.
He was never actually voted French Player of the Year and also has the Étoile d'Or as the best player in the league season never won. But in the summer of 2007, five journalists who pursued Olympiques career for decades, put together a " team of the best players of all time by Olympique Lyon " in it is on the left side of midfield Serge Chiesa, who was also chosen as "Best of the Best " - the face of competition from the team cadres of just the sixth time become at this point in series champion clubs a great personal honor.
Stations
- Association Sportive Montferrandaise (1960-1969, as a teenager )
- Olympique Lyonnais (1969-1983)
- Union Sportive Orléanaise (1983-1985, in D2)
- Clermont Football Club (1985-1989, of 1985-1988 in D3, 1988/89 in D2)
In the National Team
His early discovered skills Chiesa made fast to the A- youth national team; as team captain, he led the year of Self in the European Youth Championships 1968 Vice European Champion title. A year later, in September 1969, debuted the 18 -year-old already in the French national team. By April 1974, he brought it in this circle on twelve international matches; thereby pass him three hits. One of his best performances in the blue jersey belonged to the 1-0 victory over the USSR in the World Cup qualifiers ( October 1972 ), for which the press praised him to the skies. Thereafter, however, there was a first upset, as Chiesa, without canceling, for a training camp of the Bleus did not appear. The player had retired to Clermont- Ferrand in order to cure a violation; Olympique Lyon he had been informed, but his assumption that the club would also inform the coach, turned out to be a mistake. Coach Georges Boulogne stroked him then out of the squad for the next game. Against opponent from the German speaking stand Chiesa in two games on the lawn, in which France was defeated both times with 1:2 away in May 1970 at the " Joggeli " against Switzerland and in October 1973 in Park Stadium against the Federal Republic.
His career at the Bleus finished Serge Chiesa at the age of 23 years; already the age of 19 and soon after married father become " family man " did not want to sacrifice any more time for football and be permanently separated from wife, child and friends. This End of career came with a bang as he just before a European Championship qualifier opened the association's president Fernand Sastre and coach Ştefan Kovács against East Germany in the autumn of 1974, he was only at the direction of his club superiors and his coach Aimé Mignot in this team meeting, but he would not stay now and grab his suitcase - which he did. For this he took the bashing as a " deserter " as well as for such a refusal was still usual punishment by the Association in buying - another parallel to Raymond Kopa - which consists of a 5,000 -franc fine and a suspension for two games with his club existed. Medial fame and appreciative pats on the back were never really been important to him.
Life after time as players
Serge Chiesa remained a resident of his Auvergnat home; a time he got royalties that a clothing manufacturer was allowed to use his name for a sports fashion collection. He then became a tobacco and newspaper shop in Riom, he leads today, when he is not out to fish.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: None
- French Cup Winners: 1973 ( and finalist 1971, 1976)
- 12 A internationals (3 matches ) for France
- 475 games and 120 goals in Division 1, all for Lyon
- 9 European Cup bets, no match