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Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski; 13 October 1931 – 3 March 2017) was a professional French football player. He has played for France national team and for Real Madrid.
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Full name | Raymond Kopaszewski[1] | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 13 October 1931|||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nœux-les-Mines, France[1] | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 March 2017 85) | (aged|||||||||||||
Place of death | Angers, France | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1941–1949 | Nœux-les-Mines | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1949–1951 | Angers | 60 | (15) | |||||||||||
1951–1956 | Reims | 158 | (48) | |||||||||||
1956–1959 | Real Madrid | 79 | (24) | |||||||||||
1959–1967 | Reims | 244 | (36) | |||||||||||
Total | 541 | (123) | ||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||
1952–1962 | France | 45 | (18) | |||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
In 1970 he became the first football player to receive the Légion d'honneur, and in 2004, Pelé named him one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.
Kopa was born to a family of Polish immigrants in Nœux-les-Mines, France.[2]
After finishing second in the French national youth football trials in 1949, Kopa began his professional career at the age of 17 with SCO Angers in Ligue 2 and was transferred two years later to Reims, with whom he won French championships in 1953 and 1955.
He won the 1953 Latin Cup with Stade de Reims, where they defeated AC Milan 3–0 in the final, and helped them reach the 1956 European Cup Final, which the team lost to Alfredo Di Stéfano's Real Madrid, 4–3.
Kopa was also the first French player to win the European Cup when Madrid defeated Fiorentina 2–0 in the 1957 final. He would go on to be European champion again in 1958 and 1959, the last against former side Stade de Reims, where Just Fontaine played.
In the 1959–60 season, Kopa returned to France to finish his career with Reims, where he won further Championnats in 1960 and 1962. In total, he scored 75 goals in 346 matches in France's top flight, and was given the Ballon d'or by France Football in 1958.[3]
With the France national football team, Kopa scored 18 goals in 45 games between 1952 and 1962. He played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden.
Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Angers | 1949–50 | Division 2 | ||||||||
1950–51 | ||||||||||
Total | ||||||||||
Reims | 1951–52 | Division 1 | 33 | 8 | ||||||
1952–53 | 33 | 13 | ||||||||
1953–54 | 31 | 11 | ||||||||
1954–55 | 31 | 11 | ||||||||
1955–56 | 30 | 5 | ||||||||
Total | 158 | 48 | ||||||||
Real Madrid | 1956–57 | La Liga | 22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 30 | 8 |
1957–58 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 34 | 11 | ||
1958–59 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 37 | 11 | ||
Total | 79 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 101 | 30 | ||
Reims | 1959–60 | Division 1 | 36 | 14 | ||||||
1960–61 | 30 | 5 | ||||||||
1961–62 | 30 | 2 | ||||||||
1962–63 | 34 | 1 | ||||||||
1963–64 | 25 | 5 | ||||||||
1964–65 | Division 2 | 29 | 3 | |||||||
1965–66 | 27 | 3 | ||||||||
1966–67 | Division 1 | 33 | 3 | |||||||
Total | 244 | 36 | ||||||||
Career total | 541 | 123 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 11 November 1952 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris, France | Northern Ireland | 3–1 | Friendly | |
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3 | 14 May 1953 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris, France | Wales | 6–1 | Friendly | |
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5 | 20 September 1953 | Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 6–1 | 1954 FIFA World Cup Q. | |
6 | 30 May 1954 | Stade Heysel, Brussels, Belgium | Belgium | 3–3 | Friendly | |
7 | 19 June 1954 | Charmilles Stadium, Geneva, Switzerland | Mexico | 3–2 | 1954 FIFA World Cup | |
8 | 11 November 1954 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris, France | Belgium | 2–2 | Friendly | |
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10 | 17 March 1955 | Estadio Chamartín, Madrid, Spain | Spain | 21 | Friendly | |
11 | 15 May 1955 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris, France | England | 1–0 | Friendly | |
12 | 9 October 1955 | St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland | Switzerland | 2–1 | Friendly | |
13 | 23 October 1955 | Dinamo Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union | Soviet Union | 2–2 | Friendly | |
14 | 8 June 1958 | Idrottsparken, Norrköping, Sweden | Paraguay | 7–3 | 1958 FIFA World Cup | |
15 | 15 June 1958 | Eyravallen, Örebro, Sweden | Scotland | 2–1 | 1958 FIFA World Cup | |
16 | 26 June 1958 | Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden | West Germany | 6–3 | 1958 FIFA World Cup | |
17 | 1 October 1958 | Parc des Princes, Paris, France | Greece | 7–1 | UEFA EURO 1960 | |
18 | 27 March 1960 | Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria | Austria | 4–2 | UEFA EURO 1960 |
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