Henri Lesur

Not to be confused with Henry Lesur.

Henri Lesur

Lesur in 1913
Personal information
Full name	Henri Ferdinand Édouard Marie Joseph Lesur
Date of birth	(1892-10-25)25 October 1892
Place of birth	Tourcoing, France
Date of death	1 March 1971(1971-03-01) (aged 78)
Place of death	Tourcoing, France
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1912–1914	US Tourquennoise
1914–1918	Altengrabow [fr]
International career
1913–1914	France	6	(0)
1914	Northern France	+1	(0)
1919	France military	4	(0)
Medal record Men's football Representing  France Football at the Inter-Allied Games 1919 {{{2}}}
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henri Ferdinand Édouard Marie Joseph Lesur (25 October 1892 – 1 March 1971) was a French footballer who played as a forward for US Tourquennoise and the French national team between 1912 and 1914.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Born in Tourcoing in October 1892,[2][a] Lesur played his entire career at his hometown club US Tourquennoise between 1912 and 1914.[2][4]

Lesur (fourth, from the left) with the Lions of Flanders selection on 4 January 1914.

On 16 February 1913, the 20-year-old Lesur earned his first international cap for France in a friendly match against Belgium at Uccle, which ended in a 0–3 loss.[2][3][4] He played a further five matches for France, the last of which was on 31 May 1914, against Hungary, and although the French lost 5–1,[2][3][4] he provided an assist in the first minute of the game to debutant Juste Brouzes, who thus became the fastest to score for the French national team.[5] On 4 January 1914, Lesur played for the so-called Lions des Flandres, a regional scratch team representing Northern France, in a friendly against the Paris football team.[6]

During the First World War, he was wounded and taken prisoner on 23 August 1914 in the battle of Saint-Gérard, and was then interned in the Altengrabow [fr] camp, alongside Gabriel Hanot.[7] In the summer of 1919, the 27-year-old Lesur was a member of the French committee that went to the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, a large sports competition organized in celebration of the Allied victory in the War, being listed as a member of the football team, whose squad was formed by soldiers who had participated in the War.[8] He helped his side reach the final on 29 June, which ended in a 2–3 loss to Czechoslovakia.[9]

Later life and death

After the War, Lesur became a wool merchant in Tourcoing,[10] where he died on 1 March 1971, at the age of 78.[4]

Honours

France

• Inter-Allied Games
  • Runner-up (1): 1919

Notes

1. Some sources wrongly claim that he was born on 24 February 1887 in Aisne.[3]

References

1. "Henri Lesur". www.worldfootball.net. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
2. "Henri Lesur, international footballer". eu-football.info. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
3. "Henri Lesur". www.fff.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
4. "Henri Lesur (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
5. "En équipe de France depuis plus de dix ans: les carrières les plus longues" [In the French team for more than ten years: the longest careers]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 20 September 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
6. "1913–14 Saison de football" [1913–14 football season] (PDF). footnostalgie.free.fr (in French). p. 44. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
7. "Les joueurs des clubs nordistes - Union Sportive Tourquennoise" [Players from northern clubs - US Tourquennoise]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 1 December 1915. p. 2. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
8. Wythe, George; Hanson, Joseph Mills; Burger, Carl V., eds. (1919). The inter-allied games: Paris, 22nd June to 6th July, 1919. The Games Committee.
9. "La France battue de justesse" [France narrowly beaten]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 30 June 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
10. "Ce que sont devenus les anciens champions" [What happened to the former champions]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). Le Miroir des sports. 4 November 1925. p. 341. Retrieved 16 December 2024.