Justin Vialaret

Justin Pierre Vialaret (12 November 1883 – 30 September 1916) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for , and who competed in the football tournament of the 1908 Olympic Games in London, doing so as a member of the France B squad.

Playing career Justin Vialaret was born in Millau, Aveyron, on 12 November 1883. When he was still a child, his parents moved to Paris, where he began his career at Etoile sportive Parisienne in 1901, aged 18. 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. Of the 26 French players who made the trip to London, Vialaret was the only one from a Parisian club.

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

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. 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.