Manuel Anatol

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Manuel Anatol Arístegui (born May 8, 1903 in Irún ; † May 17, 1990 ) was a Spanish football player who also had French nationality and played for France internationally. He was also a good athlete and as such took part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris for Spain . The journalist and author Denis Chaumier describes him as a “European and a wanderer between two countries” who was “a complete athlete [and] one of the best right-wing defenders of his era”.

Club career

Club stations from ... to
Real Unión Irún before 1920–1922
Real Sociedad Gimnástica Española 1922/23
Real Unión Irún 1923-1926
Athletic Club Bilbao 1926-1928
Racing Club de France
→ disputed: Real Madrid 		1928–1932
1929/30?
Atlético Madrid 1932/33
Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains 1933/34
Racing Club Paris 1934/35
Manuel Anatol (center) in 1924 in the uniform of Unión Irún

The son of a French Basque living on the Spanish border with France played as a young man first for the reserve and from 1920 for the first team of Real Unión Irún . In 1922 he began his engineering studies in Madrid and during this time he wore the dress of the traditional club Gimnástica Española there ; the following year he continued his education in Bilbao and rejoined Unión Irún. With his team, the tall player won the Spanish Football Cup in 1924 after beating Real Madrid 1-0 in the final . In Irún's team, captain René Petit, who was almost four years older than him, was a player whose biography is very similar to Manuel Anatol's in personal, sporting and professional terms. Anatol and Petit, who remained amateurs throughout their playing careers, became champions of the eastern Basque province of Gipuzkoa in both 1924 and 1926 with Irún at a time when there was no league across Spain . Until the mid-1920s, Manuel Anatol was also very successful in athletics in parallel to football in his clubs ; probably in 1923 he was Spanish champion over 100, 200 and 400 meters and was called up for the 1924 Summer Olympics . However, over the 400 m distance he was eliminated there in the first lap.

Manuel Anatol wanted to avoid the regular commute between his place of study and Irún and therefore wanted to join the Athletic Club ; He received permission for this change from the association in October 1926. By mid-1927 he played eleven games for Bilbao, but possibly not a single one in the 1927/28 season, which could be explained by the fact that he graduated from his studies during this time. Immediately afterwards, he had to do military service in France, where he joined the Racing Club de France , where he stayed until 1932.

During his four years with Racing, there was still no national league in France; for this, the winner of the French cup competition was often referred to by the press as the national champion. In 1930 Manuel Anatol, who had meanwhile also become a national player (see below) , was close to winning this title with the capital city club. In the final , Paris, in which striker Ozenne had to guard the goal for the injured goalkeeper Tassin in the last quarter of an hour, led 1-0 until two minutes before the final whistle before FC Sète managed to equalize. In the necessary extra time, the eleven around Capelle , Villaplane and Veinante , who "still had the semi-final replay against AC Amiens in their bones", could no longer keep up and were defeated by the southern French with 1: 3. A good two years later, Anatol returned to Spain and played for Atlético Madrid in the 1932/33 season . Apparently he intended to stay in Spain afterwards; in any case, he had already given Real Valladolid an oral promise. But instead he moved to the first division SO Montpellier - there was now a uniform, professional league in France too - with whom he finished the 1933/34 season in the middle of the table. A year later he was back in Paris at the Racing Club, for which he was used in 23 of the 30 point games in the 1934/35 season . This strong, very international team - it included the Austrians Rudolf Hiden and Gusti Jordan , Raoul Diagne from French Guiana and the Englishman Fred Kennedy  - ended the season third in the table.

Then Manuel Anatol hung up his football boots and settled permanently in France, where he worked in a leading position for an armaments company near Paris. How he otherwise lived the decades up to his death at the age of 87 cannot be found in the sources used.

In the national team

Manuel Anatol was part of the French senior team for the first time in a friendly against Portugal in March 1929 , and of the following nine encounters up to May 1930 he was missing in only one: the 8-1 defeat in Zaragoza against Spain . The regular player had to forego the participation in the first World Cup in Uruguay for six weeks, including the boat trip to South America . He played his next two internationals in February (1: 2 against Czechoslovakia ) and March 1931 in a 1-0 win against Germany , the first official international match between the "hereditary enemies". By May 1932 there were four more missions for the Bleus , then he was no longer considered due to his club change to Atlético Madrid, and in the following season at Montpellier he had not been able to prove that it was stronger than what the selection committee of the French association "set “ To be Vandooren / Mattler defenders . In this respect, Manuel Anatol was not appointed to the French World Cup squad in 1934 , in which Jacques Mairesse was another competitor for Anatol's former regular place.

In mid-December 1934 he came to his 16th match for France, which despite a positive outcome (3-2 against Yugoslavia ) was to be his last: In mid-January 1935, for another game against the Spaniards, Vandooren was fit again. The defender also scored a goal in the blue dress; In March 1930, Manuel Anatol converted a brilliant direct free kick from 40 meters, which left the Swiss national goalkeeper Charles Pasche not the slightest chance of defense.

Palmarès

Soccer

  • Spanish cup winner 1924
  • French cup finalist 1930
  • Master of the Province of Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa: 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1926
  • 16 full internationals for France, one goal

athletics

  • Olympian in 1924
  • Spanish champion over 100, 200 and 400 m (presumably) in 1923

literature

  • 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
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-9519605-3-0

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see under web links )
  2. ↑ a b c Chaumier, p. 17
  3. ↑ This station gives for example footballdatabase.eu (see under web links ); This contradicts the facts of his military service in France, the beginning of his consideration for the French national team - according to L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 383, Anatol has played all his international matches while he was at Racing Paris - and the cup final with Racing, all during the period in which he is said to have been at Real Madrid.
  4. ↑ see the information in El Mundo Deportivo of November 25, 1920, p. 4
  5. ↑ after El Mundo Deportivo of December 15, 1922, p. 2
  6. ↑ see the list of Spanish Olympic participants in 1924 on the website of the Spanish Olympic Committee (to be found there under MA Arístegui)
  7. ↑ see Anatol's data sheet on the Athletic Bilbao website (in Basque)
  8. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 26
  9. ↑ cf. E.g. L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336 (there as the headline of a facsimile report from L'Auto of May 10, 1920); Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 77; Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 2003², ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , pp. 54ff. - Alain Pécheral confirms that this was still the case around 1930: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 40.
  10. ^ A photo in Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 114, shows Manuel Anatol in a game scene of this final in front of his own goal.
  11. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-958-3 , p. 28
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 346
  13. ↑ see the article "Anatol ficha por el Athletic madrileño" in El Mundo Deportivo of September 17, 1932, p. 2
  14. ↑ See the article “Anatol se queda en Montpellier” in El Mundo Deportivo of August 10, 1933, p. 2; Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 32, confirms the Montpellier station for 1933/34.
  15. ↑ Player stake numbers can be found in the Almanach du football éd. 1933/34. Paris 1934, no.
  16. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1934/35. Paris 1935, p. 71
  17. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 300f.
  18. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 2003², ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 93
  19. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 44 and 302
  20. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 305
personal data
SURNAME Anatol, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anatol Arístegui, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-French soccer player and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Irun
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1990