Louis Darques

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Louis Darques (* 1896 ; † unknown) was a French football player .

Club career

The earliest known club station of Louis Darques was the JA Saint-Ouen , in whose men's team he played at the latest during the First World War and already attracted attention beyond the club (appointments to the national team from 1915). In 1916 or 1917 the tall, black - haired half - striker , who often dropped back to the left connector position, switched to Olympique Pantin . With the Parisians , with whom he ran alongside Jules Dewaquez and Maurice Cottenet for years , Darques, who “had subtle playful means, had brilliant moments” and was also dangerous for goals , celebrated his greatest in the years up to 1927 Successes. So he was in three of the first four finals for the French Cup , until 1932 the only national competition. In 1918 Olympique defeated FC Lyon 3-0; in this final Louis Darques scored a goal and also missed a penalty. As team captain , he also received the trophy (Coupe Charles Simon ) . Only a few weeks later he was in the ranks of the team of the Ligue de Football Association , which at Pentecost 1918 won the final in the tournament of the competing French football associations against the eleven of the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques 3-2.

The following year, his club, renamed Olympique Paris, reached the cup final again , and Darques scored another goal. His team was noticeably weakened due to the lack of three regular players - the three, all Belgian World War II pilots, had finally returned to their homeland shortly before the final - and lost 3-2 to CASG Paris after extra time. The third final reached Olympique in 1921 and, like two years earlier, the captain left the stadium empty-handed after a 2-1 defeat by Red Star AC Paris . In 1922, 1923 and 1925 Darques and his team were still in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France .

In 1927, the two cup finalists from 1921 merged, and Louis Darques still wore the Red Star Olympique dress for some time ; when his team again won the national cup in 1928, he was not in the final . He ended his career as a high-level footballer at Club Français Paris .

In the national team

Long before he came of age, Louis Darques also came to international assignments. He was a member of the French national team several times at the so-called “international war games”, which were organized by the FFFA's predecessor Comité Français Interfédéral (CFI) and which no longer count as official French matches. He ran in April 1915, March 1916 - both times while still at JA Saint-Ouen - and April 1918 against Belgium for France. He also played two of the three group games at the Jeux Interalliés in June 1919, a tournament held in the new Stade Pershing by military teams from the Triple Entente and its allied states, where the CFI also fielded the French team. In the 11-0 win against the Greek selection, he also scored a goal, but was missing in the final.

Shortly before this tournament, in March 1919, he had also made his debut in the senior national team established by the new unified association FFFA - again against Belgium. In 1920 he played his second official international match against Switzerland , but he was not taken to the 1920 Olympic tournament , possibly because his amateur status was not undisputed. Because "behind the scenes he could be very demanding and regularly demanded payments from the FFFA association". From 1921 he was then taken into account again and in 1922 he scored his only goal in this circle in the 2-1 victory against Belgium, whose offensive series also included his club mate Jules Dewaquez, Paul Nicolas , Henri Bard or Jean Boyer and Raymond Dubly . In October 1923 he played his ninth and last international match; then the FFFA's partially newly composed selection committee finally excluded him from the national team because, according to Chaumier, he continued to make financial demands.

Palmarès

  • French Cup Winner: 1918 (and finalist 1919, 1921)
  • French Football Association selection tournament winner: 1918
  • 9 international matches, 1 goal

literature

  • Pierre Cazal: France (1900-1920). in: International Federation of Football History and Statistics (ed.), Football World Magazine No. 23, 1994
  • 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
  • Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
  • 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

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Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Cazal, p. 13
  2. ↑ See the team photo of Olympique Pantin 1918 both in Cazal, p. 37, and in Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 79.
  3. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 88
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 77
  5. ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 81
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 335; Cazal, p. 35
  7. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 274
  8. ↑ see the list and the team photo in de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 62
  9. ^ All lists of these international wartime games can be found in Cazal, pp. 13/14.
  10. ↑ Information on Darques' official internationals based on 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. 294-297
personal data
SURNAME Darques, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
DATE OF DEATH 20th century