The year 2020 has been a hecatomb in the world of sport. Many personalities, from various disciplines, have died, swept away by old age, illness or Covid-19. From the Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona, to the NBA star Kobe Bryant, without forgetting the illustrious rugby player of the XV of France Christophe Dominici, Prolongation offers you a retrospective. For a last tribute.
FOOTBALL
Nathaël Julan (23 years old), the young striker of En Avant Guingamp.
Michel Hidalgo (87), coach of the French football team from 1976 to 1984, winner of the 1984 European Championship.
Pape Diouf (68), former journalist, player agent and president of Olympique de Marseille.
Robert Herbin (81), international player then coach of the great Saint-Etienne of the 1970s, finalist of the 1976 European Champion Clubs’ Cup.
Alex Dupont (66 years old), former northern coach of Gueugnon and Stade Brestois.
Bruno Martini (58 years old), former goalkeeper for Auxerre and the French team from 1980-1990 and former goalkeeper coach for the France team (1999-2010).
Diego Maradona, the Argentine genius king of the 1986 World Cup, idol of Naples.
Papa Bouba Diop (42 years old), the striker of Senegal against France during the 2002 World Cup.
Paolo Rossi (64) Italian center forward world champion and 1982 Ballon d’Or.
Gérard Houllier (73), coach for Lens, Paris, Lyon, Liverpool, coach of the Blues from 1992 to 1993.
And also…
Dominique Aulanier (46 years), former striker of Saint-Etienne and Nice; Edmond Baraffe (77 years old) former international from Toulouse; Daniel Bernard (70 years old) former goalkeeper of Rennes, Brest of Paris SG; Jean-Francois Charbonnier (61 years old) PSG striker from the 1980s; the former president of the FFF Jean Fournet-Fayard (88 years old); Jean-Louis Leonetti (82 years old) former striker of Marseille, Rouen, Paris SG; the former striker Auxerrois Fabrice Lepaul (42 years old) ; Philippe Redon (69 years old) former striker of Rennes, Paris, Metz, Laval; Arnold Sowinski (89 years old) former goalkeeper and coach of RC Lens.
The Italian international of Juventus Turin Pietro Anastasi (71 years old); Radomir Antic (71) former Serbian coach of Real and Atlético Madrid; the English goalkeeper of the 1970 World Cup, Peter Bonetti (78 years old); that of Liverpool and Tottenham Ray Clemence (72 years old); José Luis Capon (72 years old) defender of Atlético de Madrid; 1966 english world champions Jacky Charlton (85 years old) and Nobby Stiles (78 years old); Harry Gregg (87 years old) former Irish goalkeeper for Manchester United, survivor of the Munich air disaster in 1958; Dutch Robbie Rensenbrink (72 years old) and Wim Suurbier (75 years old), double finalists of the 1974 and 1978 World Cups; Michael Robinson (61) former Irish striker from Liverpool in the 1980s; Alexander Sabella (66), coach of the Argentinian finalist at the 2014 World Cup; Lorenzo Sanz (76 years old) former president of Real Madrid; the 1966 German vice-world champion, Hans Tilkowski (84 years old). Viktor Ponedelnik (83 years old) European champion 1960 with the USSR.
CYCLING
The former runner turned sports director at Sky Nicolas Portal (40 years old).
Belgian Roger Decock (93) winner of the 1952 Tour of Flanders.
Le Bourguignon Fabrice Philipot (54 years old), best young rider of the Tour de France 1989.
And also…
The Italian, elder brother of Francesco, Aldo Moser (86 years old), Maurice Moucheraud (86 years old), Olympic champion in 1956 by road teams; the Marseille climber of the 50s and 60s Louis Rostollan (84 years old).
RUGBY
Arnaud Marquesuzaa (85 years old), international and three times champion of France.
Eric de Cromières (66 years old) the president of Clermont.
Andy Haden (69) former captain of the All Blacks. Gilbert Doucet (64), player then coach of Toulon.
The international winger of Toulon and the Stade Français Christophe Dominici (48 years old), five times chamipon of France four times winner of the Tournament of 5 then 6 nations.
And also…
Michel Celaya (89 years old) and André Abadie (85 years old) former captains of the XV of France; Jean-Pierre Lux (74 years old) three-quarter international of the 60s and 70s, winner of the Tournament in 1967, 68 and 70.
TENNIS
The Australian winner of 4 Grand Slam tournaments Ashley Cooper (83).
Dennis Ralston, winner of five Grand Slams in doubles then coach of Chris Evert, Gabriela Sabattini and Yannick Noah.
BASKET-BALL
David Stern (77) former illustrious boss of the NBA from 1984 to 2014.
Kobe Bryant (41), the star of the 2000s, legend of the Los Angeles Lakers and the NBA.
ATHLETICS
The 1952 Olympic javelin champion, Czech Dana Zatopkova (97), wife of Emil Zatopek, who died in 2000.
American sprinter Bobby Joe Morrow (84), three-time Olympic champion in Melbourne in 1956.
And also…
The American Refer Johnson (85 ans) Olympic decathlon champion in 1960 in Rome. Latvian javelin thrower Janis Lusis (80 years old), Olympic champion in 1968. The Italian Donato Sabia (56 years old), European 800m indoor champion, in 1984.
SPEAKERS
Former boxing world champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy (57), WBC lightweight world champion (1996) and WBA (1998).
AUTO-MOTO
Paulo Gonçalves (40) thirteen Paris-Dakar on the clock, died of a fall from a motorcycle during the seventh stage of the 2020 edition.
The English driver Stirling Moss (90), four times vice-world champion in Formula 1 in the 1950s.
The Italian Carlo Ubbiali (90 years old), nine times world motorcycle champions in the 1950s.
TABLE TENNIS
The northerner table tennis player Jacques Secrétin (72 years old), world champion in mixed doubles, European champion in singles in the 1970s.
EQUITATION
The French rider, born in Germany, Margit Otto-Crépin (75), Olympic silver medalist in Seoul in 1988.
SKI
Norwegian Finn Christian Jagge, 1992 Olympic Slalom champion (54).
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