Othniel Dossevi

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Othniel Dossevi
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Full name Othniel Dossevi
Date of birth (1947-01-13) 13 January 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth Lomé, French Togoland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger, forward
Youth career
1962–1963 Étoile Filante de Lomé
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1963–1967 Tours
1967–1971 Montferrand
1971–1972 Ambert
1972–1975 Paris Saint-Germain 19 (7)
1975–1977 Paris FC 33 (12)
1977–1978 Jeanne d'Arc
1980–1981 Pithiviers
1981–1982 Avion
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Othniel Dossevi (born 13 January 1947) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a winger and forward. [1]

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Career

Dossevi started playing football in France for Tours in 1963. [2] He was the first African to play for Paris Saint-Germain, [3] and also scored the first PSG goal ever scored at the Parc des Princes, in a match against Red Star on 10 November 1973. [2] Dossevi played for PSG for three seasons, and later played for Paris FC between 1975 and 1977. [3] From 1977 to 1978, he was a player at Senegalese club Jeanne d'Arc, but from 1978 to 1980, he was executive director at the club. [4] In 1980, Dossevi returned to France to play amateur football with Pithiviers and Avion before retiring in 1982. [4]

Dossevi never played for the Togo national team due to his opposition to Togolese dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma. He has stated: "I would not have been able to play for the team of a man who reigned over Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, who stole and killed people and who did not envisage democracy. But [not having represented Togo] it is a great regret." [5]

Personal life

Dossevi was born in Lomé, French Togoland, [6] He moved to Tours, France in 1963, [2] and later became a naturalized French citizen. [6] After retiring from football, he worked as a French, Greek, Latin, and literature teacher at the Lycée Camille-Jullian  [ fr ] in Bordeaux. [4] [7] Dossevi's brother Pierre-Antoine is a retired footballer and his nephews Thomas and Mathieu, are also footballers. Othniel's children, Damiel and Narayane, are also athletes. [5]

On 21 July 2020, before the kick-off of a friendly match between PSG and Celtic at the Parc des Princes, Dossevi was handed a 2020–21 Paris Saint-Germain home shirt with his name on it, and took part in PSG TV's pre-match build-up. He also gave the ceremonial kick-off of the match. The club had organized this to commemorate 50 years of PSG, and Dossevi was honoured for being the first African player and the first goal-scorer of the club at the Parc des Princes. [8]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Le premier buteur du PSG au Parc des Princes est…un agrégé de lettres". Europe 1 (in French). 11 August 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 De Macedo, Sylvie (23 November 2018). "Othniel Dossevi : "Si le PSG existe, c'est un peu grâce à moi"" [Othniel Dossevi: "If PSG exists, it's a bit thanks to me"]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
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