Old Match Photographs-Part 33d

Photo From:   Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978

(Morocco’s Merry Krimau at Bastia, 1977/78)

Photo From: Miroir du Football , Issue 130, April-May 1970

(AC Milan’s Nestor Combin with his bruises after Intercontinental Cup encounter vs. Estudiantes in 1969, October 22, 1969, Estudiantes 2-AC Milan 1)

Photo From: Miroir du Football, Issue 250, October 23, 1975

(AS Monaco’s Jean Petit and Just Fontaine, 1974/75)

Photo From: LIBRO DEL FUTBOL, Fasciculo 4, 1974

(River Plate’s Ricardo Montivero and Boca Juniors’ Silvio Marzolini)

Photo From: Le Livre d'or du Football 1996

(Youri Djorkaeff and Reynald Pedros, August 4, 1995, Nantes 1-Paris St. Germain 2)

Photo From: L’Equipe, L’Equipe de France de Football, la Belle Histoire

(May 3, 1947, England 3-France 0)

Photo From: kicker_WM-Sonderheft_1986

(Antonio Sousa and Guido Buchwald, June 14, 1984, European Championship, West Germany 0-Portugal 0)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Issue 522 (Number 2), January 9-15, 1985

(Franco Causio and Fulvio Bernardini)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Number 3, January 15-21, 1992

(Ramon Diaz back at River Plate)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Number 46, November 21-27, 1990

(Thomas Berthold, November 7, 1990, UEFA Cup, AS Roma 2-Valencia 1)

Photo From: Goal, Issue 18, March 1997

(Italian Paolo Di Canio at Celtic Glasgow)

Photo From: Fussball Magazin, Issue 11, November 1988

(VfB Stuttgart and Iceland’s Asgeir Sigurvinsson)

Photo From: Fussball Magazin, Issue 2, March April 1981

(Klaus Allofs at Fortuna Dusseldorf’)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2495, February 1, 1994

(Juventus’ Fabrizio Ravanelli, 1993/94)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2127, January 13, 1987

(Roberto Donadoni, December 6, 1986, EC Qualifier, Malta 0-Italy 2)

Photo From: Football Magazine, Issue 20, September 1961

(Internazionale Milano’s Luis Suarez and Gerry Hitchens)

Photo From: Football Magazine, Issue 208, January 1977

(Algeria and Paris St. Germain’s Mustapha Dahleb)

Photo From: Football Magazine, Issue 56, September 1964

(Roger Piantoni at OGC Nice)

Photo From: Foot Magazine, Issue 32, February 1984

(Antwerp’s Hungarian star Laszlo Fazekas)

Photo From: Foot Magazine, Issue 30, December 1983

(Belgium’s Eric Gerets , November 6, 1983, Internazionale Milano 2-AC Milan 0)

Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3436 (13-08-1985)

(Ubaldo Fillol at Atletico Madrid, 1985/86)

Photo From: Don Balon, Edicion Chile, Issue 245, February 10-17, 1997

(Argentina’s Walter Samuel at Under-20 level)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Daniel Antonio Escobar Riquelme)

(Puma advertisement showing Diego Maradona about to score, June 5, 1986, World Cup, Argentina 1-Italy 1)

Photo From: Calcio 2000, Issue 35, October 2000

(Switzerland and Olympique Lyonnais’ Patrick Muller, 2000/01)

Photo From: Calcio 2000, Issue 22 Supplement, August-September 1999

(Napoli’s Massimo Crippa)

Photo From: 82 – Coop

(Poland’s Marek Dziuba)

Photo From: World Soccer, May 2000

(Colombia’s Faustino Asprilla)

Photo From: World Soccer, May 1991

(Abedi Pele, April 24, 1991, Champions Cup, Olympique Marseille 2-Spartak Moscow 1)

Photo From: World Soccer, November 1981

(Argentina National Team training session, Alberto Tarantini can be seen at the furthest left, Diego Maradona is on the right)

Photo From: World Soccer, November 1970

(1970 World Cup Brazil goalkeeper Felix)

Second Acts and comebacks, Part Four

1- Enzo Scifo and Auxerre, 1989/91

Belgian Star Enzo Scifo’s career seemed to be in tailspin when he joined unfashionable French club Auxerre in the summer of 1989. His big transfer to Internazionale Milano in 1987/88 had been a fiasco. He had been loaned to French powerhouse Bordeaux. This move also turned sour as Bordeaux endured their worst season in over a decade. However, Veteran Manager guy Roux was able to convince him to join Auxerre to resurrect his career. He did just that and slowly got back to his standing of previous years. His reward was a transfer back to the Italian Serie A with Torino in 1991.

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 58, November 1993

(Enzo Scifo at Auxerre, 1990/91)

2- Emmanuel Petit and Arsenal 1997/98

French defender Emmanuel Petit was seen as a teenager as the bright hope of France’s future while at AS Monaco. He was however, one of the scapegoats of France’s failure to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. For years he was off the radar as far as the national team was concerned. This all changed when his former Manager Arsene Wenger signed him for Arsenal in the summer of 1997. He took to the English League with delight and was eventually selected as part of Hosts’ France’s World Cup of squad of 1998. During the tournament, he established himself as a starter and scored France’s third goal in the Final itself.

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 117, October 1998

(Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal)

3- Wim Kieft and PSV Eindhoven 1987/88

Dutch striker Wim Kieft’s national team career had stalled for a number of seasons. He had been in playing in the Italian League for four seasons without much success. Big spending PSV Eindhoven signed him in the summer of 1987 after they had transferred the likes of Gullit and Rene van der Gijp among others. Kieft took delight in playing for a top squad again and started scoring like his old Ajax days. He was Holland’s top goalscorer that season and earned his way back in the National team.  That summer he was part of Holland’s 1988 UEFA European championship winning squad and helped in with a key goal vs. Republic of Ireland that saved them from elimination in the first round.

Photo From:  Onze, Issue 149, May 1988

(Wim Kieft at PSV Eindhoven, 1987/88)

4- Massimo Crippa and Parma, 1993/96

Italian and Napoli midfielder Massimo Crippa had been selected first by Azeglio Vicini at the International level. When Arrigo Sacchi took over as National team manager in late 1991, his national team career seemed all but over.  A transfer in the summer of 1993 to ambitious Parma ,along with teammate Gianfranco Zola, changed all that as both excelled in the new surroundings and became key members of the glorious Parma squad of the 90s. Crippa also earned his way back to the National team during the 1994/95 season. He was selected as one of the three overage players in Italy’s 1996 Oympics squad.

5- Klaus Aughentaler and West Germany 1989/90

Following the 1986 World Cup, Franz Beckenbauer seemed to have given up on the idea of Bayern Munich captain Klaus Aughentaler as his libero. For a number of years he persevered with Mathias Herget without much success. Finally in the fall of 1989, Beckenbauer decided that Aughentaler would be his libero. Aughentlaer stayed in the team and was one of West Germany’s starters in their run to win the World Cup in 1990.

Photo From: Mondial, new series, issue 98, May 1988

(Klaus Aughentaler at Bayern Munich)