VGA Médoc Bordeaux

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La Vie au Grand Air du Médoc or VGA Médoc Bordeaux for short was a French football club from Bordeaux , which had its most successful period in the years around the First World War .

Championship title before the First World War

The first part of the name of the club comes from the French friends of nature movement ; Playing games and sports in the open air was one of the preferred activities, especially among urban youth, at the end of the 19th century; this was also reflected in the weekly La Vie au Grand Air, published from 1898, and in the founding of sports clubs of the same name. As Médoc peninsula between Bordeaux, which is the Bassin d'Arcachon and the Gironde -Mündung referred.

The VGA Médoc, whose exact founding date is not known, joined the Fédération Cycliste et Athlétique de France (FCAF) around 1905 , one of up to five associations that organized their own national championships in the early days of French football and between their respective titleholders In 1907, a common champion was identified who won the Trophée de France - which is no longer an official title today - but in which all association champions actually took part only from 1914. In 1912 VGA won the FCAF title for the first time, but then lost to the master of the Catholic FGSPF, Étoile des Deux Lacs , with 0: 5. A year later, the Bordeaux club repeated its success in its own association; for the Trophée de France , the team, in which two English players also played, first managed a 2-1 victory over FC Rouen before failing in the final with the same result at CA Paris . 1914 succeeded the third FCAF championship in a row; after a 3-2 win against Patronage Olier , they moved into the Trophée final again, only to find their champions again three months before the outbreak of war in Olympique Lillois with 1: 4. In a war-related rump championship, the kickers from Bordeaux won their fourth FCAF title in 1916.

A "pike in the Pokalteich" after 1918

The French Cup was created in 1917/18 as the only official competition that was held across the association's borders (the uniform Fédération Française de Football was only founded in 1919 and only created a national league from 1932 ) . In this, the VGA du Médoc repeatedly attracted attention until the mid-1920s. In 1919 and 1920 she only failed in the semifinals - the finals spoiled her Olympique Paris and again, with the same result as in 1913 for the Trophée de France , the CA Paris  - and in 1922 she reached the round of the best eight clubs, where again Olympique Paris ended the VGA cup dreams. In league operations, she took part in the honorary division of the Southwest, but only found regional attention when she was ahead in 1921 and 1922. Then the club from Bordeaux disappeared permanently in the great army of the nameless.

successes

Well-known former players