Jocelyn Anglooma could very well have been 1998 world champion, but no. His superb career is tainted by a somewhat unlucky course in the French team … Arrived in France at the age of 20, the Guadeloupe is first of all the fiery right winger of Stade Rennais and LOSC, before retreating to the PSG side and being torn off by the Bernard Tapie OM in 1991! He became a reference to his post and shines to the coronation of Phocaeans in the Champions League in 1993.
In club, Angloma will have shown remarkable longevity (especially at the time). He left Valence as a legend, at the age of 37, with a title of Spanish champion in 2002 and after two C1 finals lost in 2000 and 2001! The native of the Abymes did not have the same success in the France team (37 selections), as the site tells Blue chronicles This Thursday, for the 60th anniversary of the player.
Champion of European Espoirs in 1988, Anglooma was launched among the A two years later by the idol Michel Platini, who makes him his unavoidable right piston. But at Euro 92 in Sweden, Angloma loses its place in the starting eleven during the second match, for the benefit of a manual Amoros yet at the end of his career. The tricolor training bowed during the third day against Denmark (2-1) and takes the door.
Angloma withdrew two years before the World 98
Jocelyn Angloma is not yet an OM star, of course, but Gérard Houllier, the new coach, the rule of the France group because he is a follower of a rear line with four central defenders! The right side is not in the group during the drama France-Bulgaria (2-1 defeat in the 90th minute), in November 1993 at the Parc des Princes. The Blues do not play the 1994 World Cup.
The rest? There is a new adventure! Aimé Jacquet relaunches the Guadeloupean, who competes all the matches of the eliminations of the Euro 96. He scored his one and only goal in selection before the competition in England. Except that Jacquet finally prefers him the young central defender Lilian Thuram to the right of the defense, until the elimination in the semi-finals against the Czech Republic. Angloma is only launched for overtime …
At only 30 years old, Jocelyn Angloma puts an end to his hectic adventure in the French team, while he signed at Inter, where he will play the final of the 1997 UEFA Cup with Youri Djorkaeff. And this, before his great adventure in the valence of Héctor Cuper. His two LDC finals in 2000 and 2001 did not reopen the doors of the Blues. It is with the selection of Guadeloupe which will be bowing in 2007. He is now at the head of the Gwada Boys.
