Name Charles Tamboueon Place of death New Caledonia Role Football player | Playing position Position Forward Years Team | |
Date of birth (1939-12-06)6 December 1939 Date of death 18 March 2013(2013-03-18) (aged 73) Died March 18, 2013, New Caledonia | ||
Place of birth Belep, New Caledonia | ||
Charles Tamboueon (6 December 1939 – 18 March 2013) was a New Caledonian professional football player and manager.
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Career
Charles Tamboueon wins the New Caledonia Championship in 1965 and 1966 with the Frégate de Saint-Louis as a player-coach. In December 1966, he joined the Gazélec Ajaccio. The club won the Championnat de France amateur in 1968 and thus accesses the second professional division. Two seasons later, the club is relegated. Tamboueon finished his career in 1972 after several injuries and operations to the menisci.
Charles Tamboueon is selected for the first time in team of New Caledonia national team in 1965. He is a finalist of the Pacific Games 1966. Charles Tamboueon was part of the Olympic team representing France in the football tournament at the Olympic Summer Games 1968 in Mexico. 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.
18 March 2013 he died after a long battle with cancer.