Jacques Mairesse

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Jacques Désiré Mairesse (born February 27, 1904 in Paris , † June 13 or 15, 1940 in Véron , Yonne department ) was a French football player , president of the first French players' union and non-fiction author.

Club career

Little is known about the beginnings of Jacques Mairesse's footballing activities. In the early 1920s, during his military service, he played for a club from the French North Africa as well as for an Alsatian club . This forbidden fact sparked an affair in the national cup competition in the spring of 1926, when the left defender was already wearing the green and white dress of FC Cette : Cette's quarter-final opponent Stade Français Paris protested against the rating of his 2-1 defeat. In the repetition game set by the national association Fédération Française de Football Association (FFFA), Mairesse's team was defeated and eliminated. At a time when there was still no national championship in France , he reached the French cup final twice with Sète , but was not used in 1929 or 1930 . After all, he had become a national player in 1927 (see below) .

With the introduction of professionalism (season 1932/33) joined Jacques Mairesse for the top division recorded Red Star Olympique . At the end of the season, Red Star rose to the newly created Division 2 (Northern Group) , but in 1934 they were immediately promoted again. Only then can figures be determined about his stakes in points: in the 1934/35 season he played 27 of the 30 Red Stars games. In view of the disappointing 12th place in the table of the Parisian suburbs, Mairesse moved to Racing Strasbourg in the summer of 1935 . There he did not get a chance at the beginning, but played 18 games for the second division AS Villeurbanne Lyon in 1935/36 before they withdrew from professionalism during the season. Also in 1936/37 there was not a single deployment of Mairesse for the Alsatians; his name was also missing from their cup final in 1937 . It is conceivable, although it has not been proven, that he was temporarily banned because of his activities directed against the football association and the professional club presidents (see below, section “Life outside the football field”) . He is said to have been active for Strasbourg until the 1939/40 season.

Stations

  • Clubs in Alsace and French North Africa
  • 1925–1932 at the latest: FC Cette (from 1928 in the spelling Sète)
  • 1932–1935: Red Star Olympique (1933/34 in Division 2)
  • 1935/1937–1939/40: Racing Strasbourg
  • 1935/36: AS Villeurbanne Lyon (in Division 2)

In the national team

Jacques Mairesse has played a total of six full international matches (no goal); he made his debut against Portugal in March 1927 . It was not until June 1932 before he was reappointed to the French Sélectionneurs committee under Gaston Barreau . But he even ran as team captain in his third international match against Romania , and he was also part of France's squad for the World Cup in Italy in 1934 , although at that time he only played in the second division with his club. At the World Cup, he came in May 1934 against Austria to his last game in the blue national jersey, when he replaced Jules Vandooren on the right- back position at the side of Étienne Mattler .

Life outside the football field

Jacques Mairesse was “of remarkable intelligence and was characterized by the highest level of commitment”. In particular, the transfer regulation, according to which professional footballers could be sold by their clubs up to their 35th birthday without having to have their own say, the comprehensive disciplinary catalog and the low income ceiling, which also made it necessary for him to accept paid sideline work, prompted him to act. He became spiritus rector and, until his untimely death, president of the Movement of Professionals, which in 1936 set up a players' union, the Amicale des joueurs professionnels (AJP), in order to have more influence over their contractual and working conditions. In addition to Mairesse, these included Edmond Delfour , Raoul Diagne , Alfred Aston , Étienne Mattler and René Llense . At the turn of the year 1937/38 they even threatened the football association with a boycott of the international match against Belgium; this was essentially unsuccessful, and a strong advocacy of professional footballers did not emerge in France until 25 years later.

As early as 1933 he wrote a book about his passion for sport and the material circumstances of the beginnings of professional football in France, which was published by Éditions SPE in Paris under the title “Football quand tu nous tiens” (Football if you take us) . Shortly after the French mobilization (1939), Jacques Mairesse was taken prisoner during the invasion of France by German troops in June 1940 and shot there. With his death, the activities of the AJP also ended.

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
  • Fédération Française de Football (ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o. O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-95125-620-5
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ There are different statements regarding this data: the year of birth 1904 can be found in Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o.O. 2004, p. 204, de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 279, and on his data sheet at the FFF, on the other hand, his data sheet from the War Ministry mentions the year of birth 1905 (both data sheets under web links ). As the day of his death, L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 375, and Fédération Française de Football, 100 dates, p. 71, instead of 15, give 13 June 1940; Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004, identifies as the place of his death also near Sens Situated Étigny .
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 342
  3. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1934/35, p. 72
  4. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 68
  5. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1935/36, pp. 47f., 67 and 73
  6. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1936/37, p. 47
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 353; also in Fédération Française de Football (ed.): Cinquantenaire de la Coupe de France de Football. Amphora, Paris 1967, p. 91
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 299, 303-305 and 383
  9. ↑ Chaumier, p. 204
  10. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, pp. 57, 60 and 86
  11. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 69
  12. ↑ Chaumier, p. 204; Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 261
  13. ^ Fédération Française de Football, 100 dates, p. 71
  14. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi, p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Mairesse, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mairesse, Jacques Désiré (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1940 or June 15, 1940
Place of death Véron , France