Alain Cornu

Alain Cornu
Personal information
Date of birth (1936-12-12) 12 December 1936
Place of birth Le Cannet, France
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1963 Nice
1963–1964 Stade Français
1964–1965 Nice
1965–1967 Bastia
1967–1970 Toulon
International career
1962 France 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alain Cornu (born 12 December 1936) was a French footballer who played as a defender for Nice between 1956 and 1965. He also played one match for the French national team in the 1962.

Career

Born on 12 December 1936 in the Alpes-Maritimes town of Le Cannet, Cornu began his football career at Nice in 1956, aged 20, with whom he played for seven years, until 1963, helping Nice win the 1958–59 French Division 1.[2] After a brief stint at Stade Français, he returned to Nice, which he helped win 1964–65 Ligue 2, thus returning to the top flight.[2] After leaving Nice in 1965, he joined Bastia, where he stayed for two years, until 1967, when he moved to Toulon, where he retired in 1970, aged 34.[2] In total, he scored 4 goals in 167 Ligue 1 matches.[1] On 11 April 1962, the 25-year-old Cornu earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly match against Poland at the Parc des Princes in Paris; he made a line clearance to prevent a goal from Ernest Pohl in a 1–3 loss.[3][4][5][6]

Honours

Nice

References

  1. ^ a b "Alain Cornu - Fiche de stats du joueur de football" [Alain Cornu - Football Player Stats Sheet]. www.pari-et-gagne.com (in French). Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Alain Cornu". www.fff.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Alain Cornu, international footballer". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Polska 3:1 Francia - Pohl, Lentner i Brychey sirzelcami zwycieskich bramek" [Poland 3:1 Francia - Pohl, Lentner and Brychey score the winning goals]. www.sbc.org.pl (in Polish). Trybuna Robotnicza. 12 April 1962. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  5. ^ "90 minut dobrej gry Polakéw w Paryzu" [90 minutes of good play by Poles in Paris]. mbc.cyfrowemazowsze.pl (in Polish). Przegląd Sportowy. 12 April 1962. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  6. ^ "1962, une année dans le siècle" [1962, a year in the century]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 31 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 November 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
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