Maurice Dupuis

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Maurice Dupuis (born February 4, 1914 in Franconville , † September 23, 1977 in Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré ) was a French football player .

Club career

Maurice Dupuis stayed for the first two decades of his life near his birthplace in what was then the Seine-et-Oise department ; as an adolescent he played there for Stade Enghien-Ermont, a club from Enghien-les-Bains . In 1934, the first division company Racing Paris brought the 20-year-old to the neighboring capital as a professional footballer. There Dupuis developed into an all-rounder - as later in the national team (see below)  - who started out as a center forward and scored three goals in eleven league appearances in his first season, but was also his man in the runner -up. But he achieved his numerous successes in the position of right defender , where his club coach Sid Kimpton ordered him from 1935/36. These first appeared in 1936, when Dupuis and Racing became the second club in the short history of French professionalism to win the doublé , the championship title and, after a difficult 1-0 final win against OFC Charleville, also the national cup . In Division 1 followed up to 1940 as the best placement twice a third place in the final ranking. The Coupe de France, on the other hand, won racing two more times until the German invasion and the subsequent occupation and division of the country: in 1939 after a 3-1 win over Olympique Lille and in 1940 , when Olympique Marseille was defeated 2-1 in the final .
All four title wins Racing could build an identical defensive unit: the goal was Rudolf Hiden , before the defenders Dupuis and Raoul Diagne and as a center half Auguste Jordan , who began his career as well as a striker. At the front, the team with Edmond Delfour , Roger Couard , Émile Veinante and Jules Mathé , and a little later also Mario Zatelli , Oscar Heisserer , Alfred Aston , Heinrich Hiltl and Edmond Weiskopf, had a large number of dangerous offensive forces, all of whom, with the exception of Couard, were or were national players were.

After the 1940s final, the team fell apart; many players left occupied Paris and moved to the "free" part of the country , including Maurice Dupuis, who along with his teammates Diagne, Zatelli and Jean Bastien in Toulouse hired. Toulouse was second in the southern season of the league in 1941 - championships during the Second World War are not considered official titles - and reached the interzone final in the cup, which was also played under less regular conditions , in which, however, the Girondins ASP qualified 3-1 for the national final . Dupuis then left Toulouse and returned to Paris. In the 1943/44 season he played for the Équipe Fédérale Paris-Capitale , one of 16 regional selection teams in this time nationwide, single-track Division 1, whose formation had been ordered by the government, which was opposed to professionalism in sport. The players were employed and paid by the state; at the ÉF Paris-Capitale were mainly "racing men" employed and they finished the season in third place.

In the following season this experiment was given up again. The Racing Club de Paris was in the again two-part league as sixth in the northern group only mediocre; in the cup final in 1945 (3-0 against Lille OSC ), however, the "Penguins" - the club's nickname - celebrated another triumph, for the club and for Maurice Dupuis already the fourth. With this victory, Dupuis - together with his teammate "Gusti" Jordan - set Jean Boyer's record, which Paul Nicolas was the only one who had been able to equalize until then. It wasn't until ten years later that this record was exceeded by another French footballer, Marceau Somerlinck . The following two seasons were not very successful for Racing; In 1947 the defender ended his career. Little is known about his life thereafter; he settled on the Île de Ré , where he died at the age of 63.

Stations

  • Stade Enghien-Ermont (until 1934)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1934-1940)
  • Toulouse Football Club (1940/41)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1941-1943)
  • Équipe fédérale Paris-Capitale (1943/44)
  • Racing Club de Paris (1944–1947)

In the national team

For France , Maurice Dupuis played nine full international matches from January 1937 to December 1945; he did not score a goal. In fact, his career with the Bleus was concentrated on three years: in 1937 he came to three, 1942 to two and 1945 to four missions. Initially, Jules Vandooren , Héctor Cazenave and Étienne Mattler were set as defenders , so that Dupuis was not even considered as a reservist in the French squad for the 1938 World Cup . Later it was the war that ruined a large number of appointments for him, like many others of his generation, because France only played six international matches between summer 1939 and summer 1945.

Dupuis has also played against teams from German-speaking countries: twice against Austria (his debut at 1: 2 in January 1937, also 1: 4 in December 1945), Belgium (1: 3 in February 1937, 1: 2 in December 1945 ) and Switzerland (0: 2 in March 1942, 0: 1 in April 1945), plus one - at 0: 4 in March 1937 - against Germany . Another game by Dupuis ended in a French defeat (0: 4 against Spain in March 1942). Incidentally, in the two encounters in 1942 he was in the half-left attack position .

Instead, he was involved in the 2-2 draw against England on the pitch of Wembley Stadium in May 1945 , keeping their left wing Leslie Smith in check and thus taking part in the French "conquest of the holy temple".

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1936
  • French cup winner: 1936, 1939, 1940, 1945
  • 9 full international matches (no hit) for France, all of them in his time with Paris

literature

  • Almanach du football éd. 1934/35. Paris 1935ff .; ditto éd. 1935/36, 1936/37, 1944/45
  • 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 2-951-96053-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Chaumier, p. 114
  3. ↑ Almanach 1934/35, p. 71
  4. ↑ Almanach 1935/36, p. 46; Almanach 1936/37, p. 45
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 92/93 and 95
  6. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6 , p. 145
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 429
  8. ↑ Chaumier, p. 114
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 306-309.
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 71

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personal data
SURNAME Dupuis, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Franconville
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 1977
Place of death Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré