Marcel Langiller

Marcel Langiller (right) at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay

Marcel Langiller (born June 2, 1908 in Charenton-le-Pont , Val-de-Marne department , † December 28, 1980 ) was a French football player and club official .

Club career

The left winger played for CA Paris , one of the oldest football clubs in the country , as a teenager . In 1927 Marcel Langiller, who was called “la caille” (“the quail”), first drew attention beyond Paris, when he won the Paris championship and the subsequent final of the regional champions one after the other with CAP - but still under amateur conditions, and The French federation FFF only counts as an official title those won from the 1932/33 season - won without defeat and only had to admit defeat in the state cup in the semifinals against Olympique Marseille (1: 1, but 0: 6 in the replay). It was during these weeks that Langiller was appointed to the national team for the first time . In 1928 CAP reached the cup final with its very young, promising team, in which Langiller and especially the brothers Jean and Lucien Laurent stood out ; However, the high favorite Red Star Paris won that 3-1. Langiller sustained an injury early on, but the possibility of a substitution wasn't available at the time.

Like many other clubs in the second half of the 1920s, Red Star played under professional conditions, although it was banned in France until 1932 - but there were many ways to preserve the appearance of amateurism and its players, some of which even then also came from abroad to make a good living possible at the same time (for more on this topic see here ). CA Paris was not one of them, but Excelsior AC Roubaix, founded in 1928 and financially supported by several companies, from the industrial district in northern France was - and Marcel Langiller played in Roubaix after his return from the 1928 Olympics until the summer of 1933. His last season at Excelsior was at the same time the first in which there was a national professional league, Division 1 , albeit in two seasons with the final of the group winners. In the league, the EACR was only sixth out of ten clubs in Groupe A , but the team made it to the final in the cup. This time Langiller's team was the big favorite, because it was only against a second division side: the amateurs of Racing Roubaix . In this local derby, to which “half of Roubaix ” had traveled to the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris , the left winger opened the scoring after just three minutes; after 26 minutes, Excelsior was already leading 3-0. After half-time, however, Racing shortened to 1: 3, and the "big one" with all his national players (alongside Langiller and others Célestin Delmer and Noël Liétaer ) had every effort to defend the lead in order to be able to take the trophy.

Langiller then stayed the same in the capital, because in 1933/34 he joined Red Star , which he led to the championship in the now also professional Division 2 , only to then switch to AS Saint-Étienne , with which he was only midfield finished in the second division. In 1935 he returned to Paris and to his parent club CAP , with which he ended up only in the middle of the table in Division 2 for the next three years ; But that did not affect his personal class and although he was not nominated for the 1934 World Cup , he continued to play international matches until 1937. In 1938, at the age of only 30, he ended his professional career.

Stations

• Cercle Athlétique Paris (until 1928)
• Excelsior Athlétic Club Roubaix (1928–1933)
• Red Star Olympique Paris (1933/34)
• AS Saint-Etienne (1934/35)
• CA Paris (1935–1938)

National player

Marcel Langiller played a total of 30 international matches for France between May 1927 and December 1937 , in which he also scored seven goals, two of them in 1928 and 1931 against the "football teacher" England . He was the team captain of Bleus in seven matches . In 1928 he took part in the Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam and two years later in the first World Cup. There he played all three French games in Uruguay, gave the first ever goal assist at football World Cups in the first game against Mexico in Montevideo and also scored in the game against Mexico .

Ten matches for the Équipe tricolore fell into the two stages of his career when he wore the colors of the Cercle Athlétique, 17 during his years in Roubaix and three during his time at Red Star.

Life after time as a player

It is believed that Marcel Langiller was drafted into the army during World War II . In 1945 at the latest, he reappeared at “his CAP” - as the club's president. He held this honorary position until well into the 1960s, and it was during this period in 1963 that the task of deregistering the club from the professional sector fell. After three decades of belonging to the football elite in France, this was an economically necessary but personally painful decision for Langiller, who himself had helped shape most of this time as a player and official. In 1980 he, who is considered one of the best French footballers of the 30s, died at the age of 72.

Palmarès

• French soccer champion : Nothing (but unofficial champion 1927)
• French Cup Winner : 1933 (and finalist 1928)
• 30 full international appearances and 7 goals for France; Olympic participant in 1928 and World Cup participant in 1930

literature

• Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3
• Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5
• 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
• Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
• Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6