Passed away today, at age 89. Joint fourth in the list of WC goalscorers (tied
with Lionel Messi), he hasn't seen his record of goals in a single WC edition
be surpassed. At club level, he was four times French champion and twice French
Cup winner with Stade Reims, plus a European Champions Cup silver medal in 1959,
having faced in the final the Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas
and his French nt teammate Raymond Kopa.
His career was abruptly cut short in 1962 due to a broken leg, so he went on to the coaching path, with more discrete results. He did bring PSG back into the French first division in 1974 and finished his career in his native Morocco,
leading the national team to a third place finish in the African Cup of Nations
of 1980.
With his passing, only three members of the French team of 1958 are still alive: Dominique Colonna, Robert Mouynet and Bernard Chiarelli.
May he rest in peace.
--
Lléo
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 3:06:47 PM UTC+1, Lléo wrote:
Passed away today, at age 89. Joint fourth in the list of WC goalscorers (tied
with Lionel Messi), he hasn't seen his record of goals in a single WC edition
be surpassed. At club level, he was four times French champion and twice French
Cup winner with Stade Reims, plus a European Champions Cup silver medal in 1959,
having faced in the final the Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas
and his French nt teammate Raymond Kopa.
His career was abruptly cut short in 1962 due to a broken leg, so he went on
to the coaching path, with more discrete results. He did bring PSG back into
the French first division in 1974 and finished his career in his native Morocco,
leading the national team to a third place finish in the African Cup of Nations
of 1980.
With his passing, only three members of the French team of 1958 are still alive: Dominique Colonna, Robert Mouynet and Bernard Chiarelli.Updating the somewhat macabre list from our 2020 Agne Simonsson thread, following the death of Paraguay's Darío Jara Saguier this January, Mexico legend
Antonio Carbajal (*07 Jun 1929) is now the very last survivor of the 1950 World
Cup, while the oldest still alive World Cup player Nikita Simonyan (*12 Oct 1926)
as of last week is still quite active as vice president of the Russian Football Union,
going on record in a quite circumspect manner about how 'Russian football needs
to stay in Europe'.
Passed away today, at age 89. Joint fourth in the list of WC goalscorers (tied
with Lionel Messi), he hasn't seen his record of goals in a single WC edition
be surpassed. At club level, he was four times French champion and twice French
Cup winner with Stade Reims, plus a European Champions Cup silver medal in 1959,
having faced in the final the Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas
and his French nt teammate Raymond Kopa.
His career was abruptly cut short in 1962 due to a broken leg, so he went on to the coaching path, with more discrete results. He did bring PSG back into the French first division in 1974 and finished his career in his native Morocco,
leading the national team to a third place finish in the African Cup of Nations
of 1980.
With his passing, only three members of the French team of 1958 are still alive: Dominique Colonna, Robert Mouynet and Bernard Chiarelli.
May he rest in peace.
--
Lléo
And, purely as a reminder to myself, the last survivor of Austria's squad at the 1958 World Cup is Hans Buzek (*22 May 1938).
On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 10:39:48 AM UTC+11, Werner Pichler wrote:
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 3:06:47 PM UTC+1, Lléo wrote:
Passed away today, at age 89. Joint fourth in the list of WC goalscorers (tied
with Lionel Messi), he hasn't seen his record of goals in a single WC edition
be surpassed. At club level, he was four times French champion and twice French
Cup winner with Stade Reims, plus a European Champions Cup silver medal in 1959,
having faced in the final the Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas
and his French nt teammate Raymond Kopa.
His career was abruptly cut short in 1962 due to a broken leg, so he went on
to the coaching path, with more discrete results. He did bring PSG back into
the French first division in 1974 and finished his career in his native Morocco,
leading the national team to a third place finish in the African Cup of Nations
of 1980.
With his passing, only three members of the French team of 1958 are stillUpdating the somewhat macabre list from our 2020 Agne Simonsson thread, following the death of Paraguay's Darío Jara Saguier this January, Mexico legend
alive: Dominique Colonna, Robert Mouynet and Bernard Chiarelli.
Antonio Carbajal (*07 Jun 1929) is now the very last survivor of the 1950 World
Cup, while the oldest still alive World Cup player Nikita Simonyan (*12 Oct 1926)
as of last week is still quite active as vice president of the Russian Football Union,
going on record in a quite circumspect manner about how 'Russian football needs
to stay in Europe'.
He's also the oldest Olympic football gold medalist, having won it in 1956!
-Moriarty
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 9:32:53 AM UTC+1, Werner Pichler wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 6:12:26 AM UTC+1, Lléo wrote:
What's worse, for the subsequent one Geoff Hurst (82) is the last survivor on the English side.
Börjesson has died last October, so Hamrin is the last survivor from that final.
After a quick glimpse at Wikipedia, I see that the only survivors of the >> > following one (1962) today are Amarildo and Josef Jelínek.
On the other hand, more than half of the Western German team is still alive - Beckenbauer (78),
Goddammit
RIP Zagallo and Beckenbauer.
It's been a rough week on the football greats.
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 9:32:53 AM UTC+1, Werner Pichler wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 6:12:26 AM UTC+1, Lléo wrote:
What's worse, for the subsequent one Geoff Hurst (82) is the last survivor on the English side.
Börjesson has died last October, so Hamrin is the last survivor from that final.
After a quick glimpse at Wikipedia, I see that the only survivors of the >>> following one (1962) today are Amarildo and Josef Jelínek.
On the other hand, more than half of the Western German team is still alive - Beckenbauer (78),
Goddammit
Weber (79), Overath (80), Held (81), Schnellinger (84), and Schulz (85)
Ciao,
Werner
On 08/01/2024 17.52, Jesus Petry wrote:
RIP Zagallo and Beckenbauer.
It's been a rough week on the football greats.
Didier Deschamps is now the only man alive to have won the World
Cup both as player and manager.
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 8:31:19 PM UTC+1, Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
On 08/01/2024 17.28, Werner Pichler wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 9:32:53 AM UTC+1, Werner Pichler wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 6:12:26 AM UTC+1, Lléo wrote:
What's worse, for the subsequent one Geoff Hurst (82) is the last survivor on the English side.
Börjesson has died last October, so Hamrin is the last survivor from that final.
After a quick glimpse at Wikipedia, I see that the only survivors of the >> >>> following one (1962) today are Amarildo and Josef Jelínek.
On the other hand, more than half of the Western German team is still alive - Beckenbauer (78),
Goddammit
I had just considered commenting that his health was said to be poor.
Yes, it was known. He lived in Salzburg and used to feature quite prominently at a lot of events
hereabouts, but it's now been a couple of years that he slipped more and more from the limelight,
and his last public appearance was twelve months ago.
RIP Andy Brehme. Second 1990 finalist to pass away (after Diego).
On 20.02.2024 14:21, Futbolmetrix wrote:
Werner Pichler wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 8:31:19 PM UTC+1, Jesper Lauridsen wrote: >>>> On 08/01/2024 17.28, Werner Pichler wrote: > On Monday, January 8,
2024 at 9:32:53 AM UTC+1, Werner Pichler wrote: >> On Monday,
January 8, 2024 at 6:12:26 AM UTC+1, Lléo wrote: >>> >>>> Börjesson >>>> has died last October, so Hamrin is the last survivor from that
final. >>> >>> After a quick glimpse at Wikipedia, I see that the
only survivors of the >>> following one (1962) today are Amarildo
and Josef Jelínek. >> What's worse, for the subsequent one Geoff
Hurst (82) is the last survivor on the English side. >> >> On the
other hand, more than half of the Western German team is still alive
- Beckenbauer (78), > > Goddammit
I had just considered commenting that his health was said to be poor.
Yes, it was known. He lived in Salzburg and used to feature quite
prominently at a lot of events
hereabouts, but it's now been a couple of years that he slipped more
and more from the limelight,
and his last public appearance was twelve months ago.
RIP Andy Brehme. Second 1990 finalist to pass away (after Diego). Are
all the 1994 finalists still OK?
I remember a newspaper article several years ago that pointed out how different the two generations of the 1990 WC the 1996 Euro were
perceived in Germany - while the 96'ers were (and still are) very
prominent in various functions at Bundesliga clubs, or on TV (Sammer, Bierhoff, Kahn, Bobic, Scholl, Freund, even guys like Helmer and Kuntz),
the 90'ers have become mostly a motley collection of coaching careers
that never really took off, (Häßler, Kohler, Thon, Brehme himself), some success abroad but none at home (Buchwald and Littbarski in Japan, Augenthaler partly in Austria), becoming the class clown (Matthäus), deliberately disappearing from the radar (Illgner, who moved to Florida
and never looked back), and going off the deep end (Berthold).
Notable exceptions being Rudi Völler (although 1990 came at the tail end
of his career),
tournament, Stefan Reuter and Jürgen Klinsmann (although his reputation
has by now taken quite a hit, too).
What's true is that the 1990 World Cup winners never reached the status
in Germany that the 1974 generation did. And the 1996'ers were already
much more 'modern' and media-savvy, which helped them in their
post-playing careers.
Brehme on the other hand was always old-school. RIP.
Ciao,
Werner
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