Charles Laurent (soccer player)

Charles "Charlie" Laurent (born March 23, 1910 in Uzès ; † unknown) was a French football player .

Career

Laurent began playing football at the lower class club Gallia Glub from his hometown of Uzès, from where the 163 centimeter tall midfielder moved to Olympique Alès in 1930 . With Alès he succeeded in qualifying for Division 1 , which was introduced in 1932 as the highest French division and established professional football in the country. The footballer, who was included in the selection of south-eastern France but never in the national team, completed his first season as a professional as a regular player; However, he could not prevent his team from occupying the last place in the table and thus in 1933 had to leave the first division. As a result, he was one of the co-founders not only of the top division, but also of the second division founded in 1933. As a high performer, he had a share in the direct recovery achieved in 1934 and a year later in relegation in the first division. When Alès had to go back to the second division in 1936, however, he turned his back on the club after six years.

In the same year, Laurent found a new employer in the first division club FC Sète . At Sète, as before in Alès, he occupied an undisputed regular place; this was shown by the fact that he was on the field in all games during the 1937/38 season. In addition, after his change he was part of a successful team that secured the championship title after third place in 1938 at the end of the 1938/39 season, which was the player's first title at national level. The outbreak of World War II in the same year paralyzed the official game operations, but did not prevent Laurent from participating in the unofficially held championships. In the course of this, his club won the southern group in 1942 and at the same time made it into the national cup final , which however was lost 2-0 to Red Star Paris .

The 1943/44 season was no longer played with clubs, but with regional teams, with Laurent joining the ÉF Montpellier-Languedoc . He then returned to FC Sète, which in 1945 was involved in the resumption of game operations in Division 1. After a year as a regular player, the professional left Sète ten years after his engagement in 1946 and left the first class after 184 games and eight goals. For another year he played in the jersey of the second division club FC Antibes before ending his career in 1947. He stayed in the city of Antibes to work as a physical education teacher.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charlie Laurent - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
2. ↑ Charles Laurent complete profile ( memento from August 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu