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 Lesuru 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 | ||
| International career | |||
| 1913–1914 | France | 6 | (0) |
| 1914 | Northern France | +1 | (0) |
| *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.
Biography
Henri Lesur was born in Tourcoing in October 1892, and he played his entire career at US Tourquennoise between 1912, aged 20, and 1914. Following the final of the 1903 USFSA Football Championship between RC Roubaix and RC France, a certain Henry Lesur, vice president of the Nord committee, congratulated the winners. Possibly his father, since Lesur was only 11 at the time, and even though some sources wrongly claim that he was born on 24 February 1887 in Aisne, he would still only have 16 years of age in 1903, which is too young to already hold a vice presidency.
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. 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, 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. 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.
Later life
During the First World War, Lesur 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. After the War, he became a wool merchant in Tourcoing, where he died on 1 March 1971, at the age of 78.
References
- "Henri Lesur". www.worldfootball.net. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "Henri Lesur, international footballer". eu-football.info. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "Henri Lesur". www.fff.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "Henri Lesur (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "Championnat de France - La finale" [French Championship - The final]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 20 April 1903. p. 7. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "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.
- "1913–14 Saison de football" [1913–14 football season] (PDF). footnostalgie.free.fr (in French). p. 44. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "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.
- "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.