Gallia Club Paris
The Gallia Club Paris was a French football club . The "cocks" - les coqs after the Gallic heraldic animal - had their most successful period between the beginning of the 20th century and the first years after the First World War .
history
The Gallia Club emerged from AS Charenton , which was founded in 1896 and played football games only sporadically and on different pitches in the east of Paris . At the turn of the century, Georges Bayrou moved from Languedoc to the capital, laced his football boots with the ASC and, together with other players, took over the organization of the club, which they renamed the Gallia Club and as a member of the USFSA , the only sports association in France at the time. who also took in soccer players registered. In the early years of this sport, it was not uncommon for players to also act as officials. In 1902 the Gallia Club rose to the highest Paris division, and from 1903 the club's teams played regularly on a terrain in the Bois de Vincennes . In November 1903 Gallia won the Coupe Manier , a cup competition whose participants (mainly located in Paris and its neighboring communities) were not allowed to have more than three foreign footballers in their ranks. Between 1906 and 1920, the club produced a total of six French senior international players (see below for details ).
The 1904/05 season surprisingly ended Gallia first place in the Paris League and thus qualified for the finals for the title of French USFSA association champion , the les Coqs after victories over US Saint-Servan (3: 1), SOE Toulouse (5: 0) and the champion of the previous three years, Racing Roubaix (1-0 aet), brought to the capital. In a comparison match against Étoile des Deux Lacs , the title holder of the Catholic Association, they were then defeated 1: 2. This remained the only season in which the Gallia Club competed against the strong Parisian competitors in the USFSA (previously Club Français , Standard AC , Racing Club de France , United SC , later also CAP , Stade Français , AS Française and CASG ) was able to enforce and was allowed to play for the national title. Bayrou, also captain of the 1905 championship eleven, moved back to the south of France during the 1908-09 season.
The Gallia Club was represented in the first four events of the French national cup competition created in 1917 , was in the round of the last 32 teams in 1918 and 1919 and even reached the round of 16 in 1920 , in which it was eliminated by CASG Paris. Three years later, Gallia formed a syndicate with CA Paris and was again among the top 16 teams; this time the FC Rouen was the opponent who prevented “CAP Gallia” from making it into the quarter-finals. In the mid-1920s, the Coqs merged with Stade d'Ivry and appeared together with them for the last time in the main round of the national cup in 1926 , where their first game was also their last. After that, the name of the Gallia Club Paris disappeared for good.
Important players for the club
Only the number of international matches during their time at the Gallia Club is given.
- Georges Bayrou , an international match at the 1908 Olympic football tournament
- Philippe Bonnardel , two international matches in 1920
- Sadi Dastarac , an international match at the 1908 Olympic football tournament
- Émile Fontaine , 1904 an (unofficial) international match for the USFSA selection
- Albert Jouve , an international match in 1906
- Jean Loubière , an international match in 1914
- Paul Nicolas , 1917 an (unofficial) international match for the USFSA selection
- Louis Olagnier , an international match in 1920
- Maurice Pefferkorn , later a respected journalist at L'Auto and its successor L'Équipe
successes
- French champion (USFSA): 1905
- Coupe Manner winner: 1903/04
literature
- Pierre Cazal: France (1900-1920). in: International Federation of Football History and Statistics (Ed.), Fußball-Weltzeitschrift No. 23, 1994
- Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
- Yves Dupont: La Mecque du football ou Mémoires d'un Dauphin. Self-published, Sète 1973
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 48
- ↑ Dupont, p. 17
- ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 34
- ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, pp. 24/25
- ^ Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1 (A-Mo), ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , p. 18; the tableau of the 1903/04 event can be found - albeit without the exact individual game results - at Francefoot .
- ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 383
- ↑ Cazal, p. 18; Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 39
- ^ Alfred Wahl: Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, o. O. 1989, ISBN 2-0707-1603-1 , p. 99 f.
- ↑ Cazal, pp. 15-25
- ↑ Dupont, p. 25; according to Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 48, Bayrou did not leave Gallia until 1910.
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 336
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 342
- ↑ Cazal, p. 2
- ↑ Cazal, p. 13