{"id":861,"date":"2010-03-02T22:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=861"},"modified":"2010-03-05T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:58:17","slug":"african-cup-final-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/african-cup-final-56\/","title":{"rendered":"African Cup Final ’56"},"content":{"rendered":"

One doesn’t see much film, let alone color film, of African football under colonial rule. So you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across clips of a French colonial propaganda newsreel featuring the my favorite African club side wining a colonial cup final from 1956. The person selling old newsreel films has uploaded two parts of the color highlights of Jeanne d’Arc Bamako (since 1960 known as Stade Malien de Bamako<\/a>) defeating Abidjan side ASEC, now the giants of Ivorian football, ASEC Mimosas<\/a>. In one clip – the third frame reproduced below – you can see Cheikh Oumar Diallo for Bamako, scoring his second goal in the 75th minute with a flying deflection from the left post, right under the keeper. This was Jeanne d’Arc Bamako’s second French West Africa Cup (Coupe d’AOF)<\/a>, one of the high points for the young club, who might be best known as the 2009 champions of the CAF Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n

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AOF Coupe Final May 6, 1956; Parc Municipal des Sports, Dakar; att: 10,000<\/p>\n

Jeanne d’Arc (Bamako) 3-0 ASEC (Abidjan)<\/p>\n

Mamadou Kon\u00e9 4,
\nCheikh Oumar Diallo 40, ~75<\/p>\n

JAB: N’Faly Kanout\u00e9; Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Sir\u00e9 Diakit\u00e9, Yaya Traor\u00e9, Seydou Ndao, Oumar Sy, Seydou “Toto” Thiam, Issakha Mbodj, Cheikh Oumar Diallo, Bakoraba Tour\u00e9, Mamadou “Battling” Kon\u00e9;<\/p>\n

ASE: Th\u00e9ophile Lawson; Fran\u00e7ois Nianzan, Marc Aka, Augustin Kodio, Ernest Achy, Fabre Guy, Fran\u00e7ois Ad\u00e9koua, Gaston Zakoua, Benjamin Akouat\u00e9, Ignace Ou\u00e9gnin, Pierre Anoh;<\/p>\n

ref: Anianboussou (Dahomey)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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While its sometimes hard to keep up with African football abroad, one of the spin offs of technology is that it is easier now than ever.\u00a0 ASEC has a world class website (http:\/\/www.asec.ci\/<\/a>), and you can read match highlights from Bamako in half a dozen online papers. Here’s a music video of highlights of Stade 2009 Caf campaign<\/a> from just one Malian football website. There’s even a Facebook group for Stade Malien supporters<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 But whatever else changes,\u00a0 he beauty of a ball hitting the back of a net, as you can see from these movies, is timeless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One doesn’t see much film, let alone color film, of colonial era African football. So you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across clips of a French colonial propaganda newsreel featuring the my favorite African club side wining a colonial cup final from 1956. <\/p>\n

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