Jules Mathé

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Jules Mathé (born January 5, 1915 in Budapest as Gyula Mathe ; † December 26, 1995 ) was a football player of Hungarian origin who had completed his entire career in France and who had taken French citizenship in 1939.

Club career

Jules Mathé came to the capital club Racing Club Paris in 1934 at the latest , for whose first team he played regularly in the top professional league from 1935 onwards . At Racing he completed his entire adult career, which lasted until 1948. There is hardly any information about his youth; he had previously been active at the amateur club Étoile Sportive from Trappes in the western Paris region, but when the family immigrated from Hungary is unknown. Jules' younger brother Charles later also played for French professional clubs.

Racing's “football-crazy president” Jean Bernard-Lévy had hired a full-time coach in 1935, the Englishman Sid Kimpton , who introduced the World Cup system there. Due to the large number of top-class players - in addition to the left winger Mathé, the team included, among others, Émile Veinante , Jean Gautheroux , Edmond Delfour , Raoul Diagne , Rudolf Hiden , "Gusti" Jordan , Roger Couard , Robert Mercier , Frederick Kennedy and Maurice Dupuis in the team Tactics change early successes. In the 1935/36 season, Racing won the championship title and also the French Cup . Jules Mathé had contributed to winning the doublé in 22 matches with seven goals, and he also played in the cup final. The following season finished Racing in Division 1 in third place in the table, had a weak year in 1937/38 (only League 13th) and played again for the title in 1938/39, which the team was third behind FC Sète and But Olympique Marseille missed. For the little winger Mathé, however, it was a thoroughly successful season in which he reached 13th place among all league goalscorers with eleven goals and was the most successful shooter of his team.

In 1939, the Racing Club, which in the meantime had mainly strengthened offensively -  Jean Bastien , Mario Zatelli , Oscar Heisserer and Alfred Aston had joined them - won the cup competition again , and Mathé scored the 3-1 goal in the final against Olympique Lille -Final stand. He had already had a run before and practically single- handedly contributed to Racing's success in the quarter-finals as well as in the semifinals: in the 3-1 over the RC Roubaix and in the 1-0 against the SC Fives , all Paris hits had the "sender information Mathé". After taking French citizenship earlier this year, he also became a French international during this time. Jules Mathé took the step towards naturalization “because he was terrified of returning to his homeland […]. He feared strong forces there that were openly collaborating with the Nazis . ”The harbingers of war also determined the second half of 1939. The start of the season had to be postponed to December because, as a result of the French general mobilization , many football players were called up; Mathé also became a soldier and was already at the front in winter. Racing Paris, which had strengthened itself further in the storm with Heinrich Hiltl and Edmund Weiskopf , was only able to play nine of its 18 point games in Division 1, which was briefly divided into three parts, in the 1939/40 season. In the cup, however, the defending champion reached the final again in May 1940 , for which almost all players were released from the army, including Jules Mathé; and although this time he had to attack right winger - another Budapest player was playing on the left with “Edi” Weiskopf - he scored another important goal against Olympique Marseille , namely the 2-1 winner.

A few weeks after this final, the German Wehrmacht invaded France and occupied large parts of the country. Mathé fled Paris and until after the liberation at the end of 1944 his trail will be lost. When Racing won the trophy again in May 1945 , the striker had not played a minute in this competition. Only in the 1945/46 season did he regularly play competitive games for his team, which under coach Paul Baron had largely got a new face through additions such as Lucien Jasseron , Émile Bongiorni , Ernest Vaast and others. By 1948 Jules Mathé made 73 appearances in the top division, then he ended his career, which had been crowned with four titles. From 1949 he coached the amateur team of FC Bogny from the Ardennes town of Braux . What became of him in the following four and a half decades has not yet been determined. Jules Mathé died in 1995, shortly before his 81st birthday.

In the national team

In May 1939, the freshly naturalized striker made two international matches for France . In the 3-1 win over Belgium in Brussels , he scored the goal to make it 2-0, and also the home game against Wales , three days later, he and his team finished victorious (final score 2-1). Mathé's only missions remained for the Bleus because he was not available for the three games that the French played during the war for the reasons mentioned above and after 1945 he no longer achieved the form of the pre-war period.

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1936
  • French cup winner: 1936, 1939, 1940
  • 2 international caps, 1 goal for France

literature

  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Günter Rohrbacher-List: Jean Bernard-Lévy, the "football crazy" from Paris. in Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (Hrsg.): Star of David and leather ball. The history of the Jews in German and international football. The workshop, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-407-3

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ A b Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 45
  2. ↑ Julien Sorez: Le football dans Paris et ses banlieues (de la fin du XIXe siècle à 1940). Un sport devenu spectacle. Presses Universitaires, Rennes 2013, ISBN 978-2-7535-2643-3 , p. 101
  3. ^ 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 , p. 32
  4. ↑ see the data sheets from Charles Mathé on the club website of the SCO Angers ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 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. and at racingstub.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sco1919.com
  5. ^ Rohrbacher-List, p. 419
  6. ↑ a b see the data sheet regarding Mathé's league stakes at pari-et-gagne.com
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 352
  8. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 138
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, pp. 95 and 355
  10. ↑ 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. 210
  11. ^ Rohrbacher-List, p. 426
  12. ^ Rohrbacher-List, p. 428
  13. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 139
  14. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 356
  15. ^ Rohrbacher-List, p. 431
  16. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 95
  17. ↑ see the historical outline of the association
  18. ↑ Date of death according to sport24.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ziplatko.sport24.com  
  19. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 308f.
personal data
SURNAME Mathé, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Math, Gyula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1995