Friday, October 31, 2025
Friendly 1985 France Bordeaux Jubilé Marius Tresor
14 July 1985
Bordeaux
Ils sont venus, ils sont tous là. En ce 14 juillet à Bordeaux, c'est doublement jour de fête. La Nationale avec ses feux d'artifice et ses bals. Celle du football avec le jubilé de Marius Trésor. Et si l'affluence sur la pelouse du stade-vélodrome de Bordeaux est inhabituelle, c'est parce que Marius ne compte que des amis. Comment, d'ailleurs, pourrait-il en être autrement ? Qui se souvient d'une colère de Marius? Personne, sans doute, tant le Quadeloupéen est la joie de vivre personnifiée. Bon vivant, d'humeur égale, Marius est dans la vie comme il est sur le terrain et comme il l'a toujours été tout au long de sa riche carrière. D'Ajaccio, son premier club français (après des débuts à la Juventus de Sainte-Anne en Guadeloupe) jusqu'au Variétés Club de France, son club d'aujourd'hui, en passant par l'Olympique de Marseille et les Girondins de Bordeaux, jamais Marius n'a eu de vilain geste, de méchante parole.
Bordeaux
Ils sont venus, ils sont tous là. En ce 14 juillet à Bordeaux, c'est doublement jour de fête. La Nationale avec ses feux d'artifice et ses bals. Celle du football avec le jubilé de Marius Trésor. Et si l'affluence sur la pelouse du stade-vélodrome de Bordeaux est inhabituelle, c'est parce que Marius ne compte que des amis. Comment, d'ailleurs, pourrait-il en être autrement ? Qui se souvient d'une colère de Marius? Personne, sans doute, tant le Quadeloupéen est la joie de vivre personnifiée. Bon vivant, d'humeur égale, Marius est dans la vie comme il est sur le terrain et comme il l'a toujours été tout au long de sa riche carrière. D'Ajaccio, son premier club français (après des débuts à la Juventus de Sainte-Anne en Guadeloupe) jusqu'au Variétés Club de France, son club d'aujourd'hui, en passant par l'Olympique de Marseille et les Girondins de Bordeaux, jamais Marius n'a eu de vilain geste, de méchante parole.
Charity shield 1974 Leeds liverpool
10 Aout 1974
Wembley Stadium
There wasn’t much goodwill, and precious little football on show, the first time the Charity Shield was held at Wembley. Liverpool beat Leeds United on penalties but the result hardly mattered. The match disintegrated into a series of niggling fouls and ill-tempered clashes, culminating after an hour in a stand-up fist fight between Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan and Leeds captain Billy Bremner. Sent off, they threw their shirts to the ground as they left the field, an image that went around the world and brought condemnation. It was a bitter disappointment for Ted Croker, the FA secretary, whose idea it was that from 1974 the match would pit the champions against the FA Cup holders at Wembley. He made sure that Bremner and Keegan, the first players sent off at Wembley, knew they had disgraced English football. Instead of the usual one- or two-match ban, they were each suspended for 11 games and fined £500, a huge sum in those days.
Wembley Stadium
There wasn’t much goodwill, and precious little football on show, the first time the Charity Shield was held at Wembley. Liverpool beat Leeds United on penalties but the result hardly mattered. The match disintegrated into a series of niggling fouls and ill-tempered clashes, culminating after an hour in a stand-up fist fight between Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan and Leeds captain Billy Bremner. Sent off, they threw their shirts to the ground as they left the field, an image that went around the world and brought condemnation. It was a bitter disappointment for Ted Croker, the FA secretary, whose idea it was that from 1974 the match would pit the champions against the FA Cup holders at Wembley. He made sure that Bremner and Keegan, the first players sent off at Wembley, knew they had disgraced English football. Instead of the usual one- or two-match ban, they were each suspended for 11 games and fined £500, a huge sum in those days.
100 Years of the Football League 1888 1998
Eighteen-eighty-eight:
Queen Victoria was Queen of Great Britain and Empress of an India on
which the sun was still rising. It was a year, too, in which W.G. Grace
captained England's cricketers for the first time at the age of 40, John
L. Sullivan was the last bareknuckle heavyweight champion of the world
and Winston Churchill was an unhappy schoolboy at Harrow. Vincent Van
Gogh was still painting, Wyatt Earp still shooting and Florence
Nightingale still caring. The pneumatic tyre was invented and, more
prettily, less usefully, the first beauty contest was held. It was also
the year in which the Football League was founded, the first competition
of its kind, a prototype for the mushrooming world of football. The
idea was simple and revolutionary, and its champion was a Scot who ran a
drapery shop in Birmingham and who later confessed: 'I've never taken
part in active football. I tried it once when I was very young and had
to take to bed for a week. William McGregor - the father of League
football - was a portly, full-bearded Perthshire man of Stirling
principles, undeniable optimism and gentle humour. He moved to
Birmingham to improve his lot and it was football's luck that the shop
he bought was near Villa Park. McGregor joined Aston Villa -and the
shape of football began to change.
Shearer On Shearer The Story
Alan Shearer has justified the status he once held as the world's most expensive footballer by scoring more goals than anyone else since the launch of the Premier League in 1992. Shearer is the first player since the 1930s, the heyday of the bustling, robust English centre-forward, to score more than 30 goals in the top division in three successive seasons. His tally of 34 goals in 1994-95, the middle season of his outstanding run, helped Blackburn Rovers win the championship title for the first time in 81 years. 'Alan is a player in a class of his own,' Kenny Dalglish, the then Blackburn manager, said. 'He lifts the whole team and turns draws into victories. In a word: priceless.' John Barnes, the England winger, described Shearer's value to his team as 'incalculable'. Shearer stands alone as the leading goalscorer in the history of Premier League. Between 1992-93 and the end of 2004-05, he scored 250 league goals for Blackburn and Newcastle United. His outstanding form during the mid-1990s had raised his value in the transfer market seven-fold in the space of five years: from £2.2 million, the fee Dalglish paid Southampton in 1992, to the £15.6 million fee Newcastle United invested in 1996. Shearer has been transferred twice in his career: the first of his transfer fees was a British record; the second was a world record sum for a footballer. It was widely reported that Blackburn refused to sell Shearer to Manchester United earlier in 1997 for fear that his arrival at Old Trafford would make Alex Ferguson's side unbeatable. Jack Walker, the millionaire benefactor at Ewood Park, even offered to make Shearer the player-manager of Rovers, at the age of just 25, in a last-ditch effort to keep him at the club, but the lure of Newcastle United proved too strong for a player who had supported the club as a boy.
Coupe Uefa 1980 1981 Final Ipswich Town AZ Alkmaar
Aller et RetourMai 1985
Les données étaient claires pour les « blues » de Robby Robson : au terme de leur marathon de 63 matches (!), ils n'avaient plus que la Coupe U.E.F.A. pour sauver leur saison. Le titre leur échappait, la Coupe de la League leur échappait, la Cup leur échappait. Il fallait donc aux coéquipiers de Mills remporter une nette victoire aux dépens du nouveau champion de Hollande, AZ'67 Alkmaar.
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Coupe Uefa 1988 1989 Final Napoli VFB Stuttgart
Finale Aller Retour
Mai 1889
Les Napolitains, qui font rarement dans la nuance et qui ont, pour ceux qui savent les faire rêver, une véritable adoration disent de Maradona qu'il est le fils de Dieu, voire - et que nos lecteurs croyants ne s'en offusquent point car il ne s'agit que d'une image pieusement impie - Dieu en personne. Dieu-ballon, cela va de soi, Diego lui-même étant un catholique fervent et pratiquant, même s'il a tendance, souvent, à obéir à ses propres dix commandements. En cette fin de printemps 1989 qui annonce un bel été, Naples est donc qualifié pour la finale de la Coupe de l'U.E.F.A alors que c'est le cirque dans ses coulisses. L'entraîneur Ottavio Bianchi, qui en a soupe des déviations en tous genres de son extra-terrestre, clame dans tous les sens qu'il veut s'en aller et que sa dernière année de contrat, eh ! bien, il la balance aux orties. On lui rétorque qu'il ne va pas faire ça, alors qu'il va être incessamment sacré champion d'Europe. « Mais champion d'Europe, ce ne sera pas un exploit. Mon vrai chef d'oeuvre, c'est d'avoir été aussi longtemps entraîneur de Naples. » En finale, Naples accueille le V.F.B. Stuttgart (l'ancien club de Gress et des frères Fôrster). L'équipe allemande, qu'entraîné le Hollandais de partout Arie Haan, a éliminé Tatabanya (2-0, 1-2), Dynamo Zagreb (3-1 ; 1-1), Groningue (3-1, 2-0), Real Sociedad (1-0 ; 0-1, 4 penalties à 2) et Dynamo Dresde (1-0, 1-1). C'est une équipe de grande qualité qui possède en Klinsmann, Allgôwer, Buchwald, Sigurvinsson, Hartmann, des joueurs de premier plan.
Gianni Rivera "I Golden Boy"
The
European Cup final: 28 May 1969. Milan were playing the
soon-to-be-great Ajax team of Cruyff and Neeskens - at the Bernabeu in
Madrid. With fifteen minutes to go, and Milan already 3-1 up, Gianni
Rivera played a one-two on the halfway line and broke clear towards the
Ajax goal. He pushed the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper but out wide
to the by-line. Then, in the black and white film, the game appeared to
stop. Rivera, like all great players - Maradona, Platini, Zidane -
seemed to be playing in a kind of time capsule. He looked up, waited,
changed his mind, moved the ball to his right foot and floated it across
to the far post where, seconds earlier, there was just space. Out of
nowhere, an attacker rushed forward to meet the ball perfectly with his
head. Pierino Prati, the Milan number nine, had begun his run seconds
earlier, from 40 yards out. It is difficult to define genius, but
Rivera's pass - and his ability to wait - came close. It was a pass to
compare with Pele's to Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup final. Born
to an unprivileged family during World War Two, Rivera's first games
were in the courtyards and streets of the small Piedmontese town of
Alessandria, and then in the playground of his neighbourhood church.
Juventus Stagione 1994 1995
Dix-neuf ans après son élection, Boniperti démissionne en février 90. Agnelli souhaite embaucher Luca Cordero di Montezemolo pour reconstruire la Juve sur le modèle du Milan AC victorieux, de Berlusconi. Montezemolo n'a pas de chance. L'entraîneur présélectionné ne correspond pas aux attentes ; il s'agit de Gigi Maifredi, un peu trop anticonformiste pour piloter une telle équipe « hors pair ». Les acquisitions sont nombreuses et importantes, comme Roberto Baggio, Haessler, Corini, Bonetti ou même De Marchi et Luppi, mais elles ne forment pas une équipe. Après quelques matches d'une beauté indéniable, la Juve s'écroule lors des matches retour. Finalement, au bout de vingt-huit saisons, elle se retrouve tenue à l'écart des coupes avec des dommages évidents sur le plan financier. C'est alors qu'Agnelli intervient : il rappelle d'urgence Boniperti et Trapattoni dans l'espoir qu'ils parviennent à réitérer les exploits du passé. Mais les temps ont changé : on achète Vialli le joueur le plus payé dans l'histoire du club, 16 milliards nets pour lui (environ 45 millions de francs) pendant 4 saisons, primes exclues et 30 milliards de lires à la Sampdoria (environ 85 millions de franc) , les joueurs étrangers sont achetés même quand ils sont clairement incompatibles (comme Moeller et Platt).
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Sao Paulo Futebol Clube 1970 2005
Sao Paulo Futebol Clube are the youngest of the major teams from the capital of Sao Paulo state, an area in constant development which already accommodates over 40% of Brazilian industry. Founded by Edgar Souza Aranha on 27 January 1930, Sao Paulo struggled for a long time to earn themselves a place in the sun alongside the state's two traditional giants, Corinthians and Palmeiras. Nevertheless, the club's motto "Football is an art, we have another approach to the game" quickly helped them build a fan base of loyal Torcedores. And taking to the field in a white shirt with a black and red horizontal stripe across the front, the team benefited no end in the early days from two extraordinary talents. First of all, legendary goalscorer Artur Friedenreich netted an incredible 1,329 strikes in a 26-year career to become the darling of the crowds packed into Sao Paulo stadium, known more commonly as Morumbi stadium. Officially, the ground holds a maximum of 80,500 supporters.Either way, they were soon being dazzled by the skills of Leonidas da Silva, the 'black diamond', who made his debut for Sao Paulo on 1 April 1942. By the time he retired on 30 October 1951, the extremely agile and seemingly elastic striker had scored 140 goals in 211 games, many of them thanks to his speciality - the bicycle kick. His record with the Brazilian national team was perhaps even more impressive, and he struck for the Seleçao at the rate of a goal per game, scoring 25 in 25 appearances.
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