Justin Vialaret

Justin Vialaret
Personal information
Full name Justin Pierre Vialaret
Date of birth (1883-11-12)12 November 1883
Place of birth Millau, Aveyron, France
Date of death 30 September 1916(1916-09-30) (aged 32)
Place of death Marcelcave, Somme, France
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1901–1907 ES Parisienne
1907–1910 Club athlétique de Paris 14 [fr]
International career
1908 France B 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Justin Pierre Vialaret (12 November 1883 – 30 September 1916) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for Club athlétique de Paris 14 [fr], and who competed in the football tournament of the 1908 Olympic Games in London, doing so as a member of the France B squad.[1][2][3][4]

Playing career

Justin Vialaret was born in Millau, Aveyron, on 12 November 1883.[2][4][5] When he was still a child, his parents moved to Paris, where he began his career at Etoile sportive Parisienne in 1901, aged 18.[5] He later became the club's president, secretary, and even treasurer, in turn or even simultaneously.[5]

Vialaret was a midfielder who was also capable of playing forward since his abilities were rather offensive, having a solid kick and being "always dangerous", to the point that the French press even acknowledged that "he shoots too much".[5] In 1907, he moved to Club athlétique de Paris 14,[3][5] a club in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, which included a few future internationals, such as Émilien Devic, Pol Morel, and Eugène Petel.[5] In October 1908, the USFSA selected him as a reserve of the France B squad that competed in the football tournament of the 1908 Olympic Games.[5] However, he ended traveling to London as a starter following the last-minute forfeit of Étienne Morillon, thus earning his first and last international cap in the Olympic quarter-finals against Denmark, which ended in a resounding 0–9 loss.[2][3][5][6] He played this match as a wing-half, being responsible for neutralizing Danish winger Oskar Nørland, who did not score a single one of the 9 goals conceded by the Blues, which partly relieves Vialaret of the responsibility for the crushing defeat.[5] Of the 26 French players who made the trip to London, Vialaret was the only one from a Parisian club.[5]

Vialaret seems to have given up football shortly after his marriage in 1910, so his mark on French football is rather thin.[5] Outside of football, he was a commercial employee.[5]

Later life and death

Despite benefiting from a temporary military exemption as the only son of a widow, Vialaret was incorporated into the 89th RI at the start of the First World War.[5] On 20 September 1914, during the Battle of Verdun, Vialaret, now a quartermaster corporal in the 46th Infantry Regiment, was hit in the shoulder by a shell fragment, but he was only evacuated five days later, to the Marcelcave evacuation hospital in Somme, where he died on 30 September, at the age of 32, perhaps as a result of infection from his initially poorly treated wound.[3][4][5]

See also

List of Olympians killed in World War I

References

  1. ^ "Justin Vialaret". www.worldfootball.net. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Justin Vialaret, international footballer". eu-football.info. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Justin Vialaret". www.fff.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Justin Vialaret". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Les premiers Bleus: Six, Vialaret, Gressier et Fenouillère, destins communs" [The first Blues: Six, Vialaret, Gressier and Fenouillère, common destinies]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 8 June 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Football Tournament 1908 Olympiad - Squad Lists". RSSSF. 8 September 2024. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2024.