Charles Teamboueon (6 December 1939 – 11 February 2013) was a

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Career

Teamboueon won the

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in 1965 and 1966 with Frégate de Saint-Louis as a player-coach. In December 1966, he joined

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, uniting with fellow New Caledonians Moïse Gorendiawé and

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. The club won the

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in 1968 and were promoted to the second professional division. Tamboueon finished his career in 1972 after several injuries and operations to the knee.Interview de Charles Teamboueon - asmdfoot.net
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1966. Charles Teamboueon 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

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, against

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, scoring a goal in the thirtieth minute of the game and against

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, scoring a goal in the fifty-ninth minute of the game. He graduated at the quarter-final lost 3–1 to

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, and scoring the only goal in the French thirty-second minute. In the 1960s Teamboueon was a coach-player in the Frégate de Saint-Louis. After 27 years spent working with the same company in France, Teamboueon encountered several bureaucratic issues on his return to New Caledonia, finally returning for good in 2005 with his wife. In 2007, he coached the

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. On 11 February 2013 he died after a long battle with cancer.Archive News - Oceania Football Confederation

Honours

: 1 :: finalist: 1966 * New Caledonia Championship: 2 :: 1965, 1966 *

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: 1 :: finalist: 2007 * Championnat de France amateur de football: 1 :: 1968

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* 1939 births 2013 deaths People from North Province, New Caledonia New Caledonian men's footballers Men's association football forwards New Caledonia men's international footballers France men's international footballers French men's footballers New Caledonian football managers French football managers Olympic footballers for France Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Gazélec Ajaccio players {{France-footy-bio-stub