\u00ab Servette est le plus fort sur le papier. Si les Genevois ne remportent pas le titre cette ann\u00e9e, ils ne l\u2019auront jamais \u00bb A la veille du coup d\u2019envoi de la saison 1976\/1977 Timo Konietzka et tous les techniciens du pays jetaient presque l\u2019\u00e9ponge avant le premier round : pour eux, Servette \u00e9tait intouchable. Et m\u00eame la surprenante \u00e9limination des Genevois en tour pr\u00e9liminaire de la Coupe des Coupes devant les Gallois de Cardiff n\u2019alt\u00e9ra pas ce jugement. Peter Pazmandy avait succ\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 J\u00fcrgen Sundermann. Chivers, Barberis et Valentini \u00e9taient venus \u00e9toffer un contingent d\u00e9j\u00e0 impressionnant, les Servettiens frappaient d\u2019entr\u00e9e. Aux Charmilles, ils battaient Bellinzone 10-0 malgr\u00e9 l\u2019absence deMartin Chivers. Quinze jours plus tard sous le d\u00e9luge, les Grasshoppers de Netzer chutaient aux Charmilles (2-1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nDans le derby l\u00e9manique, le Lausanne de Blazevic ne trouvait pas, lui non plus la parade (3-0, trois buts d\u2019Andrey). Elimin\u00e9s en Coupe \u00e0 Vevey (3-2), les Servettiens essuyaient leur unique d\u00e9faite dans ce tour pr\u00e9liminaire le 2 octobre \u00e0 B\u00e2le. A St-Jacques, Karl Engel, qui allait perdre sa place jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la tr\u00eave pour Brignolo, et sa d\u00e9fense \u00e9taient pi\u00e9g\u00e9s \u00e0 quatre reprises. Battue 4-1 la formation de Pazmandy n\u2019avait qu\u2019une seule consolation au retour des vestiaires : son incroyable sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 au corner-score (20-3). Six mois plus tard, Servette signait un dernier carton dans ce tour pr\u00e9liminaire en balayant Sion 6-0 aux Charmilles. Ce succ\u00e8s permettait aux \u00ab Grenats \u00bb d\u2019aborder le tour final pour le titre en \u00ab pole position \u00bb avec une longueur d\u2019avance sur B\u00e2le, et deux sur Zurich. Mais un revers (2-1) d\u2019entr\u00e9e au Wankdorf devant Young-Boys d\u00e9voilait la fragilit\u00e9 des Genevois dans ce sprint final. \u00ab Nous ne cherchons que le t\u00eate de Chivers \u00bb d\u00e9plorait Pfister \u00ab No comment \u00bb r\u00e9pondait l\u2019anglais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMais c\u2019est bel et bien la t\u00eate de Chivers qui leur donnait, le 7 mai, un succ\u00e8s sans prix devant Zurich, valeureux demi-finaliste de la Coupe des champions quelques semaines plus t\u00f4t face \u00e0 Liverpool. Le 18 juin, Pazmandy et les siens croyaient tenir le bon bout. Aux Charmilles, devant 16’500 spectateurs, ils dominaient B\u00e2le 2-0 (Andrey et Thouvenel) pour s\u2019emparer seuls, \u00e0 deux journ\u00e9es de la fin, de la premi\u00e8re place. Illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quatre jours plus tard, un certain Gilbert Gress sortait le grand jeu \u00e0 la Maladi\u00e8re pour terrasser (4-2) les \u00ab\u00a0Grenats\u00a0\u00bb et les contraindre \u00e0 un match d\u2019appui contre B\u00e2le au Wankdorf. Le 28 juin, devant\u2026 50’000 spectateurs, les Genevois perdaient tout (2-1).\u00a0Kudi M\u00fcller\u00a0avait pourtant ouvert le score \u00e0 la demi-heure. Mundschin \u00e9galisait de la t\u00eate sept minutes plus tard. \u00ab\u00a0O\u00f9 \u00e9tait Chivers\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb, interrogeait\u00a0Pazmandy. Et \u00e0 un quart d\u2019heure de la fin du match, Von Wartburg, d\u00e9laiss\u00e9 par\u00a0Andrey, inscrivait le but d\u00e9cisif. Dans les vestiaires, le plus malheureux \u00e9tait\u00a0Pfister. A la 56\u00e8me minute, \u00ab\u00a0Joko\u00a0\u00bb avait galvaud\u00e9 la balle de match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R\u00e9dig\u00e9 par: <\/strong> Jacques Ducret, hors-ligne, 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00ab Servette est le plus fort sur le papier. Si les Genevois ne remportent pas le titre cette ann\u00e9e, ils ne l\u2019auront jamais \u00bb A la veille du coup d\u2019envoi de la saison 1976\/1977 Timo Konietzka et tous les techniciens du pays jetaient presque l\u2019\u00e9ponge avant le premier round : pour eux, Servette \u00e9tait intouchable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histoire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.servettiens.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1976-1.jpg?fit=900%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbyEkS-7Om","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30075,"url":"https:\/\/www.servettiens.ch\/?p=30075","url_meta":{"origin":30030,"position":0},"title":"1982: LE DEPART DE PAZMANDY","author":"Servettiens.ch","date":"15 January 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Carlo Lavizzari\u00a0fait tr\u00e8s fort durant l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a01981. 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