Héctor Cazenave

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Cazenave

Héctor Cazenave (born April 13, 1914 in Montevideo , † September 27, 1958 ) was a Uruguayan football player who played in France in the second half of the 1930s and took French citizenship in 1937 .

Club career

Héctor Cazenave, sometimes also called Jéctor Cazenave, grew up in Uruguay ; as a young man, he was part of the Peñarol Montevideo squad in 1934 and 1935 . In 1935 he celebrated winning the national championship with the Aurinegros . In 1936 he came to the East French first division team through the mediation of a compatriot who had a coach and consultant function at FC Sochaux . In the 1936/37 season, however, he could only contribute to Sochaux 'runner-up in a single point game; Also in the cup competition of this season he was neither in the 2-1 final win over Racing Strasbourg nor in one of the previous six main round matches in the first team, and there were no substitutions at that time.

This reservist status changed suddenly in the summer of 1937, although the international team was made up of the Swiss attackers Roger Courtois and André Abegglen , which also included other players from the Río de la Plata such as Pedro Duhart , Miguel Lauri or Ramón Ithurbide - the majority of them with French ancestry - that gave stiff competition. The solid right defender Héctor Cazenave prevailed from the start of the season and formed - very soon also in the national team - together with Étienne Mattler and goalkeeper Laurent Di Lorto a closed defensive block, which the press also described somewhat martially as the " Maginot Line " . This season, the FC Sochaux finished with the championship title , where he could rely on both the most goal-hungry attack (69 goals) and the strongest defense in the league (26 goals against in 30 games). Cazenave was used in 29 of the 30 league games.

The following season 1938/39 was less successful for him, because Sochaux, weakened by several departures from regular players, was on a relegation place of Division 1 after the first half of the season and could only work his way up to 6th place by the end of the season. In the autumn of 1939, the imminent outbreak of war meant that the eleven literally fell apart and could no longer participate in the games of the necessarily tripartite league: many French nationals were called up for the army, other players such as the Austrian Camillo Jerusalem were interned in camps for " enemy foreigners ", and several of Sochaux's South Americans, including Héctor Cazenave, preferred to return to their country of origin. Cazenave then played there from 1940 to 1943 in 68 games for Defensor .

In the national team

In October 1937, Cazenave made his debut against Switzerland in the French national team and formed such a well-established defensive triangle with his club-mates Étienne Mattler and Laurent Di Lorto that he replaced the regular defender in all of the following international matches of the season Jules Vandooren and Maurice Dupuis . In its six games up to and including May 1938, France won four encounters, drew against reigning world champions Italy and only lost to England ; The Bleus had never played such a successful series since 1904. That is why Héctor Cazenave was also part of the French squad for the 1938 World Cup in June . In the final tournament in his own country, he also played both French games (3-1 win over Belgium and 1: 3 against Italy in the quarter-finals). Then he was not considered again by the national team sélectionneur Gaston Barreau .

Palmarès

  • Uruguayan champion: 1935
  • French champion: 1938
  • French cup winner: 1937 (but without appearances)
  • 8 international matches for France October 1937 to June 1938, World Cup participant 1938

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
  • Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Planteles Históricos ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed May 23, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / campeondelsiglo.com
  2. ^ A b Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 54
  3. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1936/37. Paris 1937, p. 47; Guillet / Laforge, p. 136
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 126
  5. ↑ Rethacker, p. 24
  6. ↑ 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 , p. 69
  7. ↑ Rethacker, p. 28; Beaudet, p. 23
  8. ↑ Rethacker, p. 29
  9. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 137
  10. ↑ Beaudet, p. 24; There on p. 23 there is also a photo of the original eleven from 1938/39 with Cazenave.
  11. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 139
  12. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 144
  13. ↑ LOS MUNDIALES: Uruguay y Francia se vuelven a Finderar en una Copa del Mundo; la celeste no ha perdido (Spanish) of May 30, 2010, accessed on October 27, 2013
  14. ↑ A photo from the Italienspiel with Cazenave, Mattler and Di Lorto can be found in L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 55.
  15. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 307f.
personal data
SURNAME Cazenave, Héctor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1958