Charles Tamboueon

Charles Tamboueon (6 December 1939 – 18 March 2013) was a New Caledonian professional football player and manager.

Charles Tamboueon
Personal information
Full name Charles Tamboueon
Date of birth (1939-12-06)6 December 1939
Place of birth Belep, New Caledonia
Date of death 18 March 2013(2013-03-18) (aged 73)
Place of death New Caledonia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1966 Frégate de Saint-Louis
1966–1972 Gazélec Ajaccio 41 (11)
National team
1965–1969 New Caledonia 9
1968 France Olympic 4 (3)
Teams managed
2007–2009 A.S. Mont-Dore
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Tamboueon won the New Caledonia Super Ligue in 1965 and 1966 with Frégate de Saint-Louis as a player-coach. In December 1966, he joined Gazélec Ajaccio, uniting with fellow New Caledonians Moïse Gorendiawé and Marc-Kanyan Case. The club won the Championnat de France amateur in 1968 and were promoted to the second professional division. Tamboueon finished his career in 1972 after several injuries and operations to the knee.[1]

Charles Tamboueon is selected for the first time in team of New Caledonia national team in 1966. He is a finalist of the Pacific Games 1966.[2] Charles Tamboueon was part of the Olympic team representing France in the football tournament at the Olympic Summer Games 1968 in Mexico.[3] He played in the group stage against the Guinea, against Mexico, scoring a goal in the thirtieth minute of the game and against Colombia, scoring a goal in the fifty-ninth minute of the game. He graduated at the quarter-final lost 3-1 to Japan, and scoring the only goal in the French thirty-second minute.

In the 1960s Charles Tamboueon was a coach-player in the Frégate de Saint-Louis. After 27 years spent working with the same company in France, Tamboueon encountered several bureaucratic issues on his return to New Caledonia, finally returning for good in 2005 with his wife. In 2007, he coached the A.S. Mont-Dore.[4]

On 18 March 2013 he died after a long battle with cancer.[5]

Honours
finalist: 1966
  • New Caledonia Championship: 2
1965, 1966
finalist: 2007
  • Championnat de France amateur de football: 1
1968

References
  1. Interview de Charles Teamboueon - asmdfoot.net
  2. South Pacific Games 1966 (New Caledonia) - RSSSF
  3. Tournoi Olympique de Football Mexico City 1968 - France - FIFA.com Archived December 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. New Caledonia 2006/07 - RSSSF
  5. Archive News - Oceania Football Confederation Archived February 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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