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February 9th, 2006 | By: Chriso | 1 Comment »

Before the days of satellite tv with coverage available of every league and competetion in Europe, the World Cup was the main source of exposure to foreign star players and teams.

The Argentina World Cup in 1978 was the first time I really became aware of the French team and that side had two dominating individuals, Michel Platini and their captain Marius Tresor.

Tresor stood out because he was probably one of the first black players to play for a major European country (England had none at that time) and he was such a fabulous defender, strong and dynamic always looking like he’d make that last ditch tackle and come up with the ball.

He played in all France’s games in the ‘78 and ‘82 World Cups and scored in that epic semifinal against Germany in ‘82.
65 caps for France and a pioneer for a lot of today’s French defenders, here he is leading the defence against Argentina in ‘78.

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By athenes65 | February 9th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

And even earlier, we had Marius Tresor paired with Jean-Pierre Adams in central defence who was also black. We had a nick name for their partnership which I forgot right now. The goal from Tresor in extra time against Germany was beautiful. A volley at the reception of a corner. Ah! What a deception that day, we liked to mutch to play football at that time. Now, at 3-1 up with 20 min to go, the germans would never come-back.