Goalkeeper Dominique Dropsy, one of the most popular French players of the 1970s and 1980s, died on Wednesday following a four-year battle with leukemia. Afterstarting his career with Valenciennes, Dropsy spent 11 seasons at Strasbourg, where he won the French league title in 1979, and then moved to Bordeaux in 1984, winning two league titles, two FrenchCups and reaching the European Cup semifinal in 1985. He played 596 games in the French top flight — a record since surpassed by fellow goalkeepers Jean-Luc Ettoriand Mickael Landreau. After his retirement, he remained at the club as a goalkeeper coach. Dropsy received a bone-marrow transplant from an Americandonor in 2011. “I dreamed of the Far West as a kid,” he said. “I’m doing to die with a cowboy in me.”