Ernest Libérati

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Libérati (2nd from right) in 1934 with SC Fives

Ernest Libérati (born March 22, 1906 in Oran , Algeria , † June 2, 1983 ) was a French football player .

Club career

Born in Algeria , France at the time , Libérati began his career in the senior sector at AC Amiens , an amateur club that said that its International Célestin Delmer , Paul Nicolas and Urbain Wallet did not come to Picardy just because of the good air . Ernest Libérati also became a national player at Amiens. He also reached the semi-finals in the French national cup with this strong team in 1930 . With the introduction of professional football (1932), Ernest Libérati moved to the suburban club SC Fives in Liller , which, like its larger neighbor Olympique Lille, competed in Division 1 . Fives finished the season fourth in Group B, and the right-winger scored eleven goals himself. In the seasons up to 1935, the fast attacker, who was very dangerous for a winger  , became a crowd pleaser due to his attractive style of play - he preferred to run over or circle around the opposing defenders - without being too stubborn. In 1933/34, the SC Fives even managed the runner-up in the now single-track league and Libérati increased his goal account to 15 goals this time. The following year, the nominally well-staffed team (which included François Bourbotte , André Cheuva and Franz Czernicky , among others) weakened and ended the season only in eleventh place. Libérati had again managed 15 goals in 23 games.

In the summer of 1935 he accepted an offer from FC Sochaux , where he could personally hope for a lot in a team with Étienne Mattler and above all alongside three top-class strikers ( Roger Courtois , André Abegglen and André Simonyi ). Due to an injury, Ernest Libérati only made six league appearances there, remained goalless and won neither the championship (4th place) nor the cup (elimination in the semifinals ) a title. He then returned to northern France, where he found his old strength with the second division US Valenciennes-Anzin . With 18 goals in 32 games, he played a key role in the immediate resurgence of the USVA.

It is not known whether renewed injury problems were responsible for the fact that he subsequently ended his professional career. The claim made on individual websites that he played for Olympique Marseille in 1937/38 (as he did for Olympique Lille in 1934/35) is contradicted by all other sources. Rather, Libérati moved to Brive-la-Gaillarde , where he found a job with the city ​​police and remained connected to football as a player-coach at ESA Brive .

Stations

  • Athlétic Club Amiens (1929–1932 at the latest)
  • Sporting Club Fivois (1932-1935)
  • Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (1935/36)
  • Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin (1936/37, in D2)
  • Étoile Sportive Aiglons Briviste (as player-coach)

In the national team

Between February 1930 and April 1934 Ernest Libérati came to 19 missions in the French national team and also scored four goals in this circle. He also played an unofficial international match against Brazil in August 1930 ; this took place immediately after the end of the first World Cup in Uruguay , in which the right winger played all three Bleus games. He didn't manage to score there, but in the opening game against Mexico he provided the decisive template for the first goal ever scored at a World Cup finals. a. the shooter Lucien Laurent entered the football annals.

Libérati, who replaced the long-time captain Jules Dewaquez in his position in the national team , also played several times against teams from German-speaking countries: against Switzerland (1930 3: 3, 1932 3: 3, one goal each), Luxembourg (1934 at 6: 1, one goal), Belgium (twice in 1930 at 1: 6 and 2: 2, 1932 at 2: 5 and 1934 at 3: 2) and Germany (1933 at 3: 3). He scored another goal in the 5-2 victory over England in May 1931, when all five French strikers were able to enter the goalscorer list (apart from Libérati, Edmond Delfour , Robert Mercier , Lucien Laurent and Marcel Langiller ).

Palmarès

  • French champion: Nothing, but runner-up in 1934
  • French cup winner: Nothing, but semi-finalist in 1930 and 1936
  • 19 full internationals (4 goals), 16 of them during his time with Amiens, 3 with Fives; World Cup participant 1930

literature

  • Almanach du football , éd. 1932/33. Paris 1933; ditto éd. 1933/34, 1934/35, 1935/36, 1936/37
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0

Remarks

  1. ↑ Grandes Equipes SC Fivois , pari-et-gagne.com
  2. ^ Numbers in Fives and Sochaux based on the almanacs of the seasons 1932/33 to 1935/36; Guillet / Laforge, pp. 134-138, confirms the hit numbers for 1932-1934
  3. ↑ Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 88; Chaumier, p. 196
  4. ↑ Figures from Almanach 1936/37, p. 76
  5. ↑ Claim found on fff.fr and weltfussball.de
  6. ↑ On the other hand, especially the Almanach 1934/35, p. 72; Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 376, 386 and 388f .; Guillet / Laforge, p. 139; Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 88 - apparently this is based on a mix-up with the Marseille goalkeeper of the 1948 championship team, André Libérati.
  7. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 99; Chaumier, p. 196
  8. ↑ Chaumier, p. 196; L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 41
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 301-305.
  10. ^ Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 123

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personal data
SURNAME Libérati, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Oran
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1983