Othniel Dossevi
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Othniel Dossevi | ||
Date of birth | 13 January 1947 | ||
Place of birth | Lomé, French Togoland | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Winger, forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1962–1963 | Étoile Filante de Lomé | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1963–1967 | Tours | ||
1967–1971 | Montferrand | ||
1971–1972 | Ambert | ||
1972–1975 | Paris Saint-Germain | 19 | (7) |
1975–1977 | Paris FC | 33 | (12) |
1977–1978 | Jeanne d'Arc | ||
1980–1981 | Pithiviers | ||
1981–1982 | Avion | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Othniel Dossevi (born 13 January 1947) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a winger and forward.[1]
Career
[edit]Dossevi started playing football in France for Tours in 1963.[2] He was the first African to play for Paris Saint-Germain,[3] and also scored the first PSG goal ever scored at the Parc des Princes, in a match against Red Star on 10 November 1973.[2] Dossevi played for PSG for three seasons, and later played for Paris FC between 1975 and 1977.[3] From 1977 to 1978, he was a player at Senegalese club Jeanne d'Arc, but from 1978 to 1980, he was executive director at the club.[4] In 1980, Dossevi returned to France to play amateur football with Pithiviers and Avion before retiring in 1982.[4]
Dossevi never played for the Togo national team due to his opposition to Togolese dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma. He has stated: "I would not have been able to play for the team of a man who reigned over Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, who stole and killed people and who did not envisage democracy. But [not having represented Togo] it is a great regret."[5]
Personal life
[edit]Dossevi was born in Lomé, French Togoland,[6] He moved to Tours, France in 1963,[2] and later became a naturalized French citizen.[6] After retiring from football, he worked as a French, Greek, Latin, and literature teacher at the Lycée Camille-Jullian in Bordeaux.[4][7] Dossevi's brother Pierre-Antoine is a retired footballer and his nephews Thomas and Mathieu, are also footballers. Othniel's children, Damiel and Narayane, are also athletes.[5]
On 21 July 2020, before the kick-off of a friendly match between PSG and Celtic at the Parc des Princes, Dossevi was handed a 2020–21 Paris Saint-Germain home shirt with his name on it, and took part in PSG TV's pre-match build-up. He also gave the ceremonial kick-off of the match. The club had organized this to commemorate 50 years of PSG, and Dossevi was honoured for being the first African player and the first goal-scorer of the club at the Parc des Princes.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Othniel DOSSEVI". Histoire du #PSG (in French). 29 May 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Le premier buteur du PSG au Parc des Princes est…un agrégé de lettres". Europe 1 (in French). 11 August 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ a b De Macedo, Sylvie (23 November 2018). "Othniel Dossevi : "Si le PSG existe, c'est un peu grâce à moi"" [Othniel Dossevi: "If PSG exists, it's a bit thanks to me"]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Othniel DOSSEVI". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Othniel Dossevi : " Le PSG était pour moi un job d'étudiant "" [Othniel Dossevi: "PSG was a student job for me"]. PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ a b Hautbois, Yohann (2020). Les 100 choses que tout fan du PSG doit savoir avant de mourir (in French). Talent Sport. ISBN 9782378150976.
- ^ "Les hommes du premier match du PSG au Parc des Princes". Le Parisien (in French). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Othniel Dossevi at the Parc des Princes". Paris Saint-Germain. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
External links
[edit]- 1947 births
- Living people
- Togolese men's footballers
- French sportspeople of Togolese descent
- Dossevi family
- Men's association football forwards
- Men's association football wingers
- Footballers from Lomé
- Tours FC players
- FCUS Ambert players
- Paris Saint-Germain FC players
- Paris FC players
- ASC Jeanne d'Arc players
- French Division 3 (1971–1993) players
- Ligue 2 players
- French football chairmen and investors
- Togolese football chairmen and investors
- Togolese expatriate men's footballers
- French expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Senegal
- Togolese expatriate sportspeople in Senegal
- French expatriate sportspeople in Senegal
- Togolese emigrants to France
- Naturalized citizens of France