Arthur Parkes

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Parkes (4th from left, top) in 1931 at the Club Français

Arthur Parkes (born August 4, 1897 ; † 20th or 21st century) was an English football player .

Career

Parkes fought as a soldier in World War I and then moved to Cette in the south of France to recover from the effects of his poison gas injuries. His compatriot Victor Gibson brought Parkes to the local football club FC Cette , for which he played as a defender ; In December 1921, a broken arm at a friendly in Geneva interrupted his career for two months. Then Parkes came because of his versatility and goal danger in all game positions except that of the goalkeeper and the winger. In 1923 he made the leap to the national cup final with FC and was placed as a center forward , but had to accept a 2-4 defeat against Red Star Paris . This was the year when the association excluded FC Cette from the current competition after the round of 16 because of the participation of the Swiss player Georges Kramer, who was not yet eligible to play , but then pardoned him in the appeal hearing, so that Cette within 15 days quarter, semi-finals and final had to contest - connected all three encounters with long train journeys (22 hours to Rennes , 18 to Rouen and 15 to Paris ) under the traffic connections at the time .

From 1927 on he was in the squad of the Club Français Paris and reached the cup final in 1931 , where he and his team SO Montpellier were able to defeat 3-0 and thus recorded the only title win of his career. His role in this game is described as "unwavering, secure and decisive against [Montpellier's] attackers". In the 1932/33 season Arthur Parkes was one of the club's team that took part in the first division of Division 1 as the top national division; so he was one of the founders of professional football in France. After a year, the club had to accept relegation and at the same time became a founding member of Division 2 as the second highest national league, which was launched in 1933 a year after the first division. Parkes competed there for a year and retained his professional status until he retired in 1934 at the age of 36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yves Dupont: La Mecque du football ou Mémoires d'un Dauphin. Self-published, Sète 1973, p. 341
  2. ↑ Yves Dupont: La Mecque du football or Mémoires d'un Dauphin. Self-published, Sète 1973, p. 342
  3. ↑ Arthur Parkes complete profile ( Memento from August 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu
  4. ↑ Grandes Equipes FC Sète , pari-et-gagne.com
personal data
SURNAME Parkes, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1897
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century