François Hugues

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François Hugues (born August 13, 1896 in Paris , † December 15, 1965 ibid) was a French football player who later worked as a coach .

Club career

François Hugues was already active as a teenager at clubs in his hometown (including US de l'Est and US Auteuil ) before, well before he came of age and before the First World War , he worked alongside national players such as Lucien Gamblin , Eugène Maës or Pierre Chayriguès played for Red Star AC . He himself also made his national team debut there as a 22-year-old (see below) . Red Star had strengthened itself further immediately after the war, for example by Paul Nicolas and Philippe Bonnardel , and in 1921 won the then only France-wide competition, the national cup ("Coupe de France") , after a 2-1 final victory over Olympique Paris . This was Hugues' first title as well - a success that he repeated two years later .

François Hugues had “remarkable physical and mental abilities and a precise headball game”, although he was not particularly tall, a “dry, bony, capable” middle runner who was said to have “the heart of a lion, a long breath and an iron moral ”. Overall, the defender was active for the Parisian suburbs for 13 years - only interrupted by one season (1921/22) at Stade Rennais UC , with which he surprisingly also reached the cup final, but was defeated by "his" Red Star. Hugues was also the first national player for the Breton club. In 1927 he moved to FC Lyon . Alfred Wahl and Pierre Lanfranchi put this change in the context of the “ dishonest amateurism ” (amateurisme marron) rampant in this decade , whereby “southern French clubs ... exerted a certain attraction on successful players”.

In 1933 François Hugues returned to Paris , where he played with US Suisse for just under one season in the newly established, professional second division . After 16 defeats, two draws and only one win, the club ended the adventure of professional football prematurely on March 1, 1934. The player, who celebrated his 37th birthday this summer, continued to play on the city's soccer fields. He later worked as a trainer; for example, in the early 1950s he was a trainer at the Sporting Club Bel-Abbès in Algeria, which was still French at the time .

Player stations

  • Red Star Amical Club (1913-1921)
  • Stade Rennais Université Club (1921/22)
  • Red Star Amical Club (1922-1927)
  • FC Lyon (1927-1933)
  • US Suisse Paris (1933/34)

National player

Between March 1919 (against Belgium ) and May 1927 (against England ) François Hugues played 24 full internationals for France ; the middle runner also scored a goal - France's consolation goal in a 2-1 defeat by Ireland in early 1921 - and led the Bleus onto the field three times as team captain . He "was an indispensable part of the French team during these years".

At the Olympic football tournament in Antwerp in 1920 Hugues, u. a. alongside René Petit , Jean Batmale , Jules Dewaquez , Jean Boyer , Henri Bard , Raymond Dubly and his club-mate Paul Nicolas, in both French games against Italy (3-1 win) and Czechoslovakia (1-4 defeat) ) used. When the Olympic Games took place in France four years later , however, his name was missing; an injury-related weakness in form meant that after a game against Switzerland in March 1924 he was only  able to wear the blue national dress again in April 1925 - and then against the Austrian “miracle eleven” .

Palmarès

  • French cup winner: 1921, 1923 (and finalist 1922)
  • 24 senior internationals, one goal
  • Olympic participant 1920

literature

  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-95125-620-5

Web links

  • Datasheet on the website of the French Association

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, pp. 44-46
  2. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 162
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 338
  4. ^ Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-424-8 , p. 240
  5. ↑ According to de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 277, the move to Lyon is said not to have taken place until 1930. The fact that Hugues' last two international matches (mid-1927) are attributed to FC Lyon speaks against this - see L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 382; Chaumier, p. 162; France Football: Où va l'Équipe de France? Une histoire en chiffres. , Issue 3423 of November 15, 2011, p. 8. In addition, he was no longer in the Red Stars Cup final team in 1928 .
  6. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 38
  7. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1933/34. Paris 1934, p. 68
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 295
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 297f.
personal data
SURNAME Hugues, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1965
Place of death Paris