Patronage Olier

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Patronage Olier was a football club from Paris that played an important role in the early days of French football .

The club was founded in 1899 or 1900 as an association of a Catholic parish (French: patronage ) in Arcueil (in the south of Paris in the XIV arrondissement ). It was named after Jean-Jacques Olier , a priest from the 17th century .

Catholic sports movement

The Catholic sports movement was one of the mainstays of developing club football in France at the end of the 19th century, and many clubs that still play an important role today originally came from this area (the best-known example: AJ Auxerre and its founder, the Abbé Deschamps ). Earlier than in Germany ( Deutsche Jugendkraft (DJK)) there was already a Catholic regional association and French championships west of the Rhine - and before the First World War , Patronage Olier, together with Étoile des Deux Lacs, dominated its gaming operations.

The parishes and many of their priests promoted sport (not only, but increasingly also football) in the sense of Catholic social teaching as a balance to everyday work and the often unhealthy living conditions. In this respect, especially young people from the working class were the addressees of these associations; In addition, it was hoped that this would reduce the distance between young people and the Church.

The successful years before the First World War

Patronage Olier was organized in the football association FGSPF ( Fédération Gymnastique et Sportive des Patronages Français ), which since 1905 - like the other four associations also - has determined a national champion every year. 1907 to 1913 played the winners of the competing associations (with the exception of the oldest and largest, the USFSA ) from a common master; from 1914 the USFSA champions also took part, so that this Trophée de France had a high priority for the clubs that could win it. Officially, however, only championship titles from the 1932/33 season count in France these days.

In 1908 PO replaced local rivals Étoile des Deux Lacs as champions of the FGSPF for the first time: in the final, the Cadets de Bretagne were defeated 8-0 and the kickers from Arcueil thus qualified for the final round of the Trophée de France . Here they made it to the final and won their first major title with a 3-0 win against Société Municipale de Puteaux .

In 1909 the Bons Gars de Bordeaux had to go first in their own association , but in 1910 Patronage Olier beat these "good guys" from Bordeaux in the FGSPF final (11-0 victory in Bordeaux). On the way to this success PO had already "shot down" the AJ Auxerre 9-0. The FGSPF champion then won the Trophée de France for the second time with a 2-0 victory over CA Vitry .

Patronage Olier won his third FGSPF title in 1914: again the Paris champions met Auxerre (4: 1) and in the final against Bordeaux (3: 1). In the final round of the cross-association national championship, PO failed this time in the semifinals against another club from the Bordelais (2: 3 at VGA Médoc Bordeaux ), which then lost the final against USFSA champions Olympique Lille .

The early end

After the war and the founding of a unified French football association (FFF) in 1919, Patronage Olier only drew attention to itself twice and in a modest way: the club was one of the 48 clubs that participated in the very first edition of the national cup (1918 as Coupe Charles Simon , played out as Coupe de France since 1920 ). Here, however, it ended in the second round, and the following year they failed in the round of the last 64 teams.

After that it became quiet about PO, and it is not known whether this church football club, which was one of the most successful in France between 1908 and 1914, still exists in the 21st century.

successes

French national team

The number of internationals for Patronage Olier and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets

  • Henri Guerre (1, 1909)
  • Ernest Tossier (1, 1909)

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3