Charles Allé

Charles Allé (born July 3, 1904 in Hammam Bou Hadjar , Algeria , † September 15, 1994 in Marseille ) was a French football goalkeeper .

Club career

Allé began playing football in the Algerian city of Oran , where he was in the service of the IA Oran from 1919 to 1920 and then played for FC Oran from 1920 to 1921 before moving to GC Oran in 1921. He guarded the club's gate in the then French-occupied country in North Africa until he went to Olympique Marseille in metropolitan France in 1925

Because there was no professional league at that time, Allé retained his amateur status at Marseille, but still played for a nationally successful club; at the end of its first season, the club made it to the cup final in 1926 and won it 4-1 against AS Valentigney . Because the goalkeeper had to let his colleague Paul Seitz go first, he was not directly involved in this success. Unlike in the previous year, he was called up in the cup final in 1927 and remained without conceding a goal when Olympique was able to defend the title with a 3-0 win against US Quevilly . In 1929 he also succeeded in winning the French amateur championship , which at the time was synonymous with the national title.

With Marseilles team Allé managed to qualify for Division 1 , which was created in 1932 as a professional league and the highest French division. So he was on the field when the team played their first game in the newly founded league on September 11, 1932 in a 2-1 win over Olympique Lille ; he stayed in goal for the remainder of the 1932/33 season as number one and reached the second place in the table with the team, which, however, was not enough to reach the finals in the two-pronged competition at the time. Subsequently, he was almost completely pushed out of the gate and only returned on May 20, 1934 for a game that was lost 4-2 to EAC Roubaix ; it was his last of a total of 14 first division games.

In view of his lost position at Olympique, he turned his back on the club in 1934 after nine years and moved to city rivals CS Crédit Lyonnais Marseille , which was tantamount to a return to amateur football. He ran for the club until 1939, with which he won the Provence Regional Cup in 1936 .

National team

Allé made his debut for the French national team when he was called up on May 26, 1929 in an international match against Belgium ; he had to let four balls pass and suffer a 4-1 defeat of his team. He was not called up for another assignment in the national jersey.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles ALL , omstatsclub.com
2. ↑ Charles ALL , om1899.com
3. ↑ Charles Allé in the database of footballdatabase.eu (English)
4. ↑ Joueur - Charles ALL , fff.fr