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Jules Dewaquez

Jules Dewaquez
Jules Dewaquez - Olympique de Paris - Football 1920 (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Date of birth 9 March 1899
Place of birth Paris, France
Date of death 12 June 1971(1971-06-12) (aged 72)
Place of death Lyon, France
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1915–1917 US Saint-Denis
1917–1924 Olympique de Pantin/Paris
1924–1930 Marseille
1930–1933 Nice
1933–1934 AS Béziers
National team
1920–1929 France 41 (12)
Teams managed
1933–1934 AS Béziers
1936–1937 Montpellier
1945–1946 FC Grenoble
1946–1947 Marseille
AS Aix
Lyon
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jules Dewaquez (or Devaquez), (born 9 March 1899 in Paris; died 12 June 1971 in Lyon) was a French amateur footballer, who played for both club and country on the right wing. He was extremely short (1.69m) and renowned for his small moustache. By profession he was a technical draughtsman, but he became one of the most successful French players during the 1920s. As a player, he was an agile and fast dribbler, had a powerful shot and was also an extraordinarily strong header of the ball – unusual for someone of his size and playing position.

He started his football career with US Saint-Denis, based in Saint-Denis, in 1915, before moving in 1917 to Olympique de Pantin (which became Olympique de Paris), where he won the French Cup in 1918, and was a finalist in 1919 and 1921.

His first international selection was on 18 January 1920 in a 9–4 defeat by Italy. In his next match, on 29 February he scored in a 2–0 victory over Switzerland, and appeared in all France’s international matches in 1920, including two matches in the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, being eliminated in a 4–1 defeat by Czechoslovakia. He was selected for all the French internationals over the next two years, including a match against an England amateur XI on 5 May 1921, when he scored in a 2–1 victory. This was the first time in which a French national team had defeated its English equivalent. This game is recognised as a full international by the French Football Federation but not by the Football Association who consider it as an amateur match. (Of the England players, only Bert Coleman, Alfred Bower and Albert Read were later selected for the full England XI.)


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