Urbain Wallet

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Urbain Wallet

Urbain Wallet (born July 4, 1899 in Montdidier , † December 9, 1973 in Belloy-sur-Somme ) was a French football player and later a club official .

Club career

As an adult, Urbain Wallet only played for one club, namely the Amiens Athlétic Club from his Picardy region of birth, for which he also became a national player (see below) . The exact beginning of his appearance for Amiens' combat team is as little to be found in the literature as its exact end; at least between 1922 and 1931 he was active there. The right defender remained an amateur throughout his life; after completing his schooling at a Lycée in Rouen towards the end of the First World War , he earned his living as a grain dealer. At a height of 1.82 m, he weighed around 100 kg and had a “pot-bellied profile”, which made him the “target of contemporary cartoonists”. He was definitely "athletic, dynamic [and] ran the 100 m in 11 seconds". He is also considered to be the “focal point and most famous local player of the teams” of his club in the 1920s.

Wallet could not win a national title with the AAC; however, he was part of the winning team that brought the northern French championship to Amiens in 1924 and, surprisingly , was able to prevail for the first time against the traditional competitors Olympique Lille , SC Fives , Racing Roubaix and US Tourcoing . Wallets Mannen repeated this success in 1927. There is also a semi-final appearance in the cup in 1930 , in which the team only gave up after a replay against Racing Club de France . In the meantime, the Amiens AC had strengthened itself with three other French national players ( Célestin Delmer , Ernest Libérati and Paul Nicolas ) - it was the time of "not so pure amateurism" ("amateurisme marron") , which was only allowed to legalize the Professionalism and the creation of a unified, France-wide league . In the national cup , Wallet also reached the quarter-finals in 1925 , 1928 and 1931 . In particular, the 1928 course was remembered, in which the AAC successively eliminated CASG Paris , Stade Rennais UC (7-3 victory after 0-3 deficit) and - in two "close" games - defending champion Olympique Marseille before the later cup winners Red Star Olympique with 4: 3 retained the upper hand.

After playing as a player, Urbain Wallet continued to work for his AAC - as a "knowledgeable club chairman". Today a stadium in Amiens bears the name of the man who was born 30 km southeast of Amiens and died 15 km west of the city; AC Amiens has been organizing the Challenge Urbain Wallet , a regional football tournament , for a good quarter of a century .

National player

Between March 1925 (7-0 in Turin against Italy ) and April 1929 (8-1 in Spain ) Urbain Wallet played 21 international matches for France . He did not score a goal in the blue dress, but was rather considered a purely defensive "street sweeper of the Equipe de France ". He took part in the 1928 Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam , where he played France's only game (3: 4 against Italy).

Against teams from German-speaking countries, Wallet recorded two appearances against Switzerland (April 1926 and March 1928) and one against Austria (May 1926). He also wore the blue dress in France's heartiest defeat between the world wars, the 1:13 in June 1927 against Hungary - and was also involved in the 3-0 revenge a year and a half later.

Palmarès

  • Northern France Champions: 1924, 1927
  • 21 international matches, no hit
  • Olympic participant in 1928

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
  • 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

Web links

  • Data sheet on the website of the French association FFF

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ so at least Wallet's data sheet at footballdatabase.eu
  2. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , p. 26
  3. ↑ a b Chaumier, p. 312
  4. ↑ At L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, p. 36 and 37, there are two photos of game scenes in which body structure and dynamic wallets are clearly shown to advantage.
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 162
  6. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 38
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 346
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe de France, p. 344; Berthou / Collectif, p. 38f.
  9. ↑ Chaumier, p. 313
  10. ↑ see the poster of the 25th edition of the competition at acamiens.com
  11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, La belle histoire, pp. 298-300
personal data
SURNAME Wallet, Urbain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Montdidier
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1973
Place of death Belloy-sur-Somme