Lucien Laurent
| Lucien Laurent | ||
 Lucien Laurent (1936)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | December 10, 1907 | |
| place of birth | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , France | |
| date of death | April 11, 2005 | |
| Place of death | Besançon , France | |
| size | 160 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1921-1930 | CA Paris | |
| 1930-1932 | FC Sochaux | |
| 1932-1933 | Club Français Paris | |
| 1933-1934 | CA Paris | |
| 1934-1935 | FC Mulhouse | |
| 1935-1936 | FC Sochaux | |
| 1936-1937 | Rennes stadium | 32 (11) |
| 1937-1939 | Racing Strasbourg | 28 (4) |
| 1939-1943 | Toulouse FC | |
| 1943-1946 | RC Besançon | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1930-1935 | France | 10 (2) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1943-1950 | RC Besançon | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Lucien Laurent (born December 10, 1907 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , † April 11, 2005 in Besançon ) was a French football player and coach .
Career
The trained car mechanic Laurent went down in football history when he became the first goalscorer of the first football World Cup in Uruguay on July 13, 1930 . In the 19th minute of the game he scored the 1-0 for France in the game against Mexico after an assist by Marcel Langiller in Montevideo . The game ended 4-1 for France. Laurent was not aware of the historical significance of his only World Cup goal and later said:
“Of course we were all happy about this goal, but […] nobody had realized that I had made history. A quick handshake, that's it, and off we went. "
Laurent made ten appearances for France and scored two goals. He was also in the French squad at the 1934 World Cup in Italy , but was not used. In the French professional league , Lucien Laurent, who grew up at CA Paris with his brother Jean and Marcel Langiller, played for FC Sochaux-Montbeliard .
Lucien Laurent died in Besançon hospital at the age of 97.
Web links
- Lucien Laurent in the database of weltfussball.de
- Lucien Laurent in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucien Laurent in the imdb.com database
- ↑ einestages.spiegel.de: 1930 The man who scored the first World Cup goal
- ^ Official match report from the 1st World Cup match on fifa.com
- ↑ quoted from Oliver Noelle: Das kleine Lexikon der Fußballrekorde , p. 110, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77828-9
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Laurent, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Maur-des-Fossés |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2005 |
| Place of death | Besançon |