Claude Jean Jules César Abbes (24 May 1927 – 11 April 2008) was a French professional
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper
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.
Career
Abbes played the majority of his professional career for local club
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...
, where he won the 1957
Première division, the first title ever for the club.
He was also part of the
France national team squads at the
FIFA World Cup
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s of
1954
Events
January
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
and
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
, and played four matches at the latter, where France finished in third place.
He died on 11 April 2008.
Foot - Disparition - Claude Abbes est décédé
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References
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1927 births
2008 deaths
Footballers from Hérault
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
AS Béziers Hérault (football) players
AS Saint-Étienne players
Ligue 1 players
1954 FIFA World Cup players
1958 FIFA World Cup players
French football managers
20th-century French sportsmen
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