Claude Papi | |
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Birth Date: | 16 April 1949 |
Birth Place: | Porto-Vecchio, France |
Death Place: | Porto-Vecchio, France |
Height: | 1.78 m |
Position: | Midfielder |
Years1: | 1967–1982 |
Clubs1: | Bastia |
Caps1: | 410 |
Goals1: | 115 |
Nationalyears1: | 1973–1978 |
Nationalteam1: | France |
Nationalcaps1: | 3 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Claude Papi (16 April 1949 – 28 January 1983) was a French football midfielder who is regarded as the all-time best player for the SC Bastia.
Born in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, Papi played his entire career for SC Bastia.[1] He led Bastia to the 1978 UEFA Cup Final, scoring seven goals that season. Papi remains the all-time leading scorer for Bastia with 134 goals in 479 games.
Papi was a member of the France national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. His only World Cup appearance came in a 3–1 group match win against Hungary.
Papi died on 28 January 1983 at the age of 33 of a ruptured aneurysm.[2]
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