Abderrahmane Boubekeur
Abderrahmane Boubekeur ( 13 March 1931, Algiers, Algeria - 20 July 1999, French Riviera, France) was an Algerian goalkeeper. In club football, he played in the Algerian and French leagues in different clubs.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abderrahmane Boubekeur | ||
| Date of birth | 13 March 1931 | ||
| Place of birth | Algiers, Algeria | ||
| Date of death | 20 July 1999 (aged 68) | ||
| Place of death | French Riviera, France | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1950–1954 | AS Saint Eugène | ||
| 1954–1958 | AS Monaco FC | 79 | (0) |
| 1962–1963 | MC Alger | ||
| 1963–1964 | USM Alger | ||
| National team | |||
| 1958–1962 | FLN | 91 | (0) |
| 1962–1964 | Algeria | 13 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1964-1968 | CC Alger | ||
| 1968–1970 | Nasr Athletic Hussein Dey | ||
| 1970-1972 | Kabylie | ||
| 1976 | Kabylie | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
International career
But he was actively involved in three of the very early Algerian “football star hours”: on February 28, 1963 in a 4-0 win against Czechoslovakia, on January 1, 1964 in a 2-0 win against Germany and on November 4, 1964 in a 2-2 against the USSR. In this game he was very happy to face his idol Lev Yashin on the field.[1] He held a penalty kick of Werner Krämer in friendly match against Germany in 1964 [2]
Club career
At the age of 23, AS Monaco signed him for their team, which was competing in the highest French professional league, together with Mustapha Zitouni, who had also played for Saint-Eugène for a while. On the second weekend in April 1958, a few game days before the end of the season, Abderrahmane Boubekeur secretly left the Principality with his teammates Ben Tifour, Zitouni, Kaddour Bekhloufi and Hacène Chabri for North Africa. Like many other Algerian professional footballers, you had decided to play for the selection team of the Algerian Independence Movement (FLN) in order to promote the independence of the French colony. As soon as this departure became known, AS Monaco terminated their player contracts without notice, and the association withdrew their licenses. After Algeria became independent in 1962, he settled in Algiers and played for the USM and MC Algiers there.[3]
Manager career
After his playing career he became a trainer at CC Alger, Nasr Athletic Hussein Dey and Kabylie.
Personal life
He then founded a fish trading company in the port of Algiers, which he gradually expanded: first he bought a trawler and also got into fishing, later also into the export business. In 1998 Abderrahmane Boubekeur died while on vacation on the French Riviera.
External links
- Abderrahmane Boubekeur at National-Football-Teams.com