Edmond Delfour

Edmond Delfour
Personal information
Date of birth	1 November 1907
Place of birth	Ris-Orangis, France
Date of death	19 December 1990 (aged 83)
Place of death	Corte, Corsica, France
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	ES Viry-Châtillon
	Draveil
	ES Juvisy-sur-Orge
Senior career*
Years	Team
1928–1929	Stade Français
1929–1937	RC Paris
1937–1939	RC Roubaix
1939–1945	Rouen
1945–1946	Red Star
International career
1929–1938	France
Managerial career
1940–1945	Rouen
1945–1946	Red Star
1946–1951	Gent
1952–12/1953	Stade Français
1954–1955	Le Havre
1956–1958	Gent
1958–1962	Cercle Brugge
1962–19xx	Union SG
1964–1965	US Corte
1965–1969	Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif
1969–11/1970	Bastia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edmond Delfour (1 November 1907 – 19 December 1990) was a French international footballer who played as a midfielder, before later becoming a manager.

Career

Delfour was born in Ris-Orangis. He played for Viry-Châtillon, Draveil, Juvisy-sur-Orge, Stade Français (1928–29), RC Paris (1929–37), RC Roubaix (1937–39), FC Rouen (1939–45) and Red Star Olympique (1945–46). He won two French national tournaments in 1936 and 1940 and one Coupe de France in 1936.

For France national football team he got 41 caps and participated at three edition of FIFA World Cup in 1930, 1934 and 1938, being one of five players to have appeared in all three of the pre-war World Cups.^[2]

When he retired from playing football, he started his manager career in Belgium], with KAA La Gantoise, Union Saint-Gilloise, Cercle Brugge and FC Liège. After being a manager in Belgium for many years, he returned to France, and coached teams as Stade Français, Le Havre AC, SC Bastia and US Corte. He also had a spell with Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif.^[3] He died in 1990, at the age of 83.

^ France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs Archived 31 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ The other players were Étienne Mattler, Nicolae Kovács, Bernard Voorhoof and Patesko, according to official FIFA match reports. Patesko, however, is not listed in many sources as part of the 1930 Brazilian squad, shortening the list to four players.
^ "Entraîneurs". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.