CASG Paris

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The Club Athlétique de la Société Générale, or CASG for short, was a traditional French football club in Paris .

In 1903 the company sports club of the major bank Société Générale ; that's why his team was mostly called "The Bankers". In 1919 he renamed himself Club Athlétique des Sports Généraux . The club colors were blue and white; From 1907 the club had its own sports field in the Bois de Boulogne , near the Porte d'Auteuil and the Prince's Park Stadium .

history

Until the First World War

The club joined the only football association until then, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), which from 1898 held a national championship competition called the Championnat de France and - although there were several competing associations in France from 1905 - so did most of the others Traditional clubs (e.g. Standard AC , Racing Club de France and Club Français from Paris, to which Le Havre AC , Stade Helvétique Marseille , Olympique Lille , RC Roubaix and US Tourcoing ) belonged.

In the Paris championship, which, like in other regions of France, preceded the national finals, CASG first drew attention to itself in 1914, when it was able to leave many of the traditionally strong competitors in the state capital behind and finish second behind AS Française . During this time, with Maurice Mathieu and the center forward Juste Brouzes, "bankers" were appointed to the French national football team for the first time .

During the First World War , the Parisians won the USFSA's national cup three times in a row (1915 to 1917) and the Allied Cup twice (1915 and 1917) , in which soldiers' teams from England and France also took part. It should be noted, however, that due to the war situation, a significant part of the French clubs could not take part in regulated competitions at all or only with a greatly reduced regular cast and that the individual association titles - even those won in peacetime, i.e. under more regular conditions - do not count as official championships today. CASG players were regularly used in the Equipe Tricolore at the also unofficial international war games .

In 1917, however, a national and cross-association cup competition, the Coupe Charles Simon , was introduced ( called Coupe de France since 1919/20 ), and when it was first played, CASG was naturally among the participants. However, it was the end of the line in the semifinals when they lost 2-1 to the eventual cup winner Olympique de Pantin . A year later, in 1918/19, this pairing took place again, but this time only in the final - and this time the "Bankiers" won 3-2 after extra time. The decisive goal was scored by two-time goalscorer Hatzfeld, one of three Englishmen in the winning team, which also included national team player Émilien Devic and the Devicq brothers who won the cup.

Between the World Wars: Cup History

After the establishment of the uniform football association FFF (1919), the club had to rename itself because the association did not tolerate company teams, but chose the new name so that the abbreviation CASG was retained (see above, second paragraph). In the absence of a nationwide league operation, which the FFF only introduced in 1932, the cup remained the domain of the "generals", as they were now literally called ( généraux actually means "general" in the context of the club name). The title could not be defended in 1920 (quarter-final defeat against VGA Médoc Bordeaux ); Even in 1922 (against FC Rouen ) CASG did not get beyond the quarter-finals, in 1921, 1923 and 1924 even the respective round of 16 games ended all dreams - but at least the club was next to the meanwhile renamed winner of the very first event, Olympique Paris , and racing Club de France was the only club that had made it into at least the top 16 teams every single year since 1917/18.

In 1925, the club was back in the final and won the trophy for the second time. However, this time the "generals" needed a replay (the first in the long history of the Coupe de France ): after the first game against FC Rouen after 150 minutes it was still 1: 1, 14 days later it was 3: 2 and thus brought the same result as when the Club Athlétique des Sports Généraux won the first cup . This, however, remained the last major success of CASG Paris up to the present (late 2005): in the cup competition in 1927 he managed to reach the last sixteen (1: 2 against CA Paris ), and when the professional league operation was introduced, the Club consciously decided on amateur status.

After the Second World War

In 1951 the club merged with the Union Athlétique du XVIe Arrondissement . Since then, the club's rugby players have shone far more than the footballers, although they were absorbed by the Stade Français in 1995 .

League affiliation and achievements

After the introduction of professional football (1932), CASG only played in the Division d'Honneur (highest amateur league) in Paris.

Known players

French national team

The number of internationals for CASG Paris and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets

  • Édouard Baumann (4, 1924; Olympic participant 1924 ) previously 4 more international games for another club
  • Jean Boyer (3, 1920 and 1923, scored two goals; Olympic participant 1920 ) in between and afterwards 11 more international matches (5 goals) for three other clubs
  • Juste Brouzes (1, 1914, one goal) then 5 more international matches (2 goals) for another club
  • André Caillet (1, 1923)
  • Augustin Chantrel (7, 1930; World Cup participant 1930 ) before and after 8 more international matches for another club
  • Émilien Devic (1, 1919) before and after 8 more international matches (2 goals) for two other clubs
  • Marcel Domergue (1, 1922) afterwards 19 more internationals for three other clubs
  • Pierre Lienert (1, 1925)
  • Maurice Mathieu (1, 1914) afterwards 1 further international match for another club
  • Pierre Mony (4, 1923) previously played another international match for another club

Other

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3