Maxime Lehmann

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Maxime Lehmann (called Max Lehmann ; * December 17, 1906 in Basel ; † April 24, 2009 ) was a French football player of Swiss origin.

Club career

The 176 centimeter tall midfielder Lehmann, who was mostly called up in the defensive midfield position or on the left, played for FC Basel from 1922 before moving to local rivals FC Concordia Basel in 1926 . He took part in the Swiss championship, which was divided into several groups, but found himself far behind in the table with Concordia. In 1928 he moved to the French capital club Club Français Paris . A year later, there was another move that brought him to FC Sochaux , which is located near the Swiss border . With Sochaux he qualified for the first division of Division 1, which founded professional football in France in 1932 as the first national league . He was on the field when the club started the new league on September 11, 1932 with a 1: 3 defeat against CA Paris , remained an integral part of the first team and did not miss a single game during the first season.

In his role as an undisputed regular player nothing changed in the following years and so he was considered for all 30 matches of the 1934/35 season. At the end of it, he and his teammates celebrated winning the championship title. This was followed by years in which Sochaux was able to consolidate its reputation as a top team and made it into the national cup final in 1937 . Lehmann was called up in the final and, thanks to a 2-1 win by his team against Racing Strasbourg, won the trophy. In 1938 he won the championship again with Sochaux. In the same year he left Sochaux after nine years with 149 first division games without a goal and went to Switzerland, where he was included in the squad of the first division club FC Biel-Bienne in 1939 . With this he escaped relegation in the also professionally run league and stayed loyal to the club until he ended his professional career in 1944 at the age of 37. He later worked as a car dealer. He died in 2009 at the age of 102. Before his death, he was the last survivor of the championship teams of 1935 and 1938.

National team

Lehmann received French citizenship in 1932 and was for the national team of the French eligible to play. He made his debut for the selection on January 24, 1935, when the then 28-year-old was called up in a 2-0 defeat in a friendly against Spain. On March 8, 1936, he played his second and last appearance in the shirt of France in a 3-0 win against Belgium.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maxime Lehmann , national-football-teams.com
  2. ↑ Maxime Lehmann - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  3. ↑ a b Maxime Lehmann complete profile ( memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
  4. ↑ Décès de Max Lehmann ( Memento of January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), fcsochaux.fr
  5. ↑ Joueur - Max LEHMANN , fff.fr
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Maxime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2009