Charles Tamboueon
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Charles Tamboueon | ||
Date of birth | 6 December 1939 | ||
Place of birth | Belep, New Caledonia | ||
Date of death | 18 March 2013 | (aged 73)||
Place of death | New Caledonia | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1963–1966 | |||
1966–1972 | Gazélec Ajaccio | 41 | (11) |
National team | |||
1965–1969 | New Caledonia | 9 | |
1968 | France Olympic | 4 | (3) |
Teams managed | |||
2007–2009 | A.S. Mont-Dore | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Charles Tamboueon (6 December 1939 – 18 March 2013) was a New Caledonian professional football player and manager.
Career[]
Tamboueon won the New Caledonia Super Ligue in 1965 and 1966 with as a player-coach. In December 1966, he joined Gazélec Ajaccio, uniting with fellow New Caledonians Moïse Gorendiawé and Marc-Kanyan Case. The club won the in 1968 and were promoted to the second professional division. Tamboueon finished his career in 1972 after several injuries and operations to the knee.[1]
Charles Tamboueon is selected for the first time in team of New Caledonia national team in 1966. He is a finalist of the Pacific Games 1966.[2] Charles Tamboueon was part of the Olympic team representing France in the football tournament at the Olympic Summer Games 1968 in Mexico.[3] He played in the group stage against the Guinea, against Mexico, scoring a goal in the thirtieth minute of the game and against Colombia, scoring a goal in the fifty-ninth minute of the game. He graduated at the quarter-final lost 3-1 to Japan, and scoring the only goal in the French thirty-second minute.
In the 1960s Charles Tamboueon was a coach-player in the . After 27 years spent working with the same company in France, Tamboueon encountered several bureaucratic issues on his return to New Caledonia, finally returning for good in 2005 with his wife. In 2007, he coached the A.S. Mont-Dore.[4]
On 18 March 2013 he died after a long battle with cancer.[5]
Honours[]
- finalist: 1966
- : 2
- 1965, 1966
- New Caledonia Cup: 1
- finalist: 2007
- : 1
- 1968
References[]
- ^ Interview de Charles Teamboueon - asmdfoot.net
- ^ South Pacific Games 1966 (New Caledonia) - RSSSF
- ^ Tournoi Olympique de Football Mexico City 1968 - France - FIFA.com Archived December 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ New Caledonia 2006/07 - RSSSF
- ^ Archive News - Oceania Football Confederation Archived February 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Charles Tamboueon at FootballDatabase.eu
- 1939 births
- 2013 deaths
- People from North Province, New Caledonia
- New Caledonian footballers
- Association football forwards
- New Caledonia international footballers
- France international footballers
- French footballers
- New Caledonian football managers
- French football managers
- Olympic footballers of France
- Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Gazélec Ajaccio players
- New Caledonian football biography stubs
- French football biography stubs