Marcel Triboulet

Marcel Triboulet (26 January 1890 – 30 April 1939) was a French footballer who played as a forward for RC de France and the French national team. He was also named in France's squad for the football tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics, but the French side withdrew from the competition.

Early life Marcel Triboulet was born in Thieffrans on 26 January 1890, as the son of a blacksmith, who gave him the first name of Julius Caesar, which is obviously difficult to wear without attracting mockery, especially because he was only 1.59 meters tall, so he adopted Marcel for his first name.

He moved to the Paris region at a very young age and was raised in Levallois where he learned to play on the Macadam with a tin can as a ball, in the company of Lucien Letailleur and Pierre Chayriguès, whom he had met while attended the independent school in Levallois-Perret. In 1910, all three of them signed with Gaston Barreau's FC Levallois. During the 1914 Trophée de France, Levallois lost the semifinals 1–4 to Olympique Lillois. Shortly after, in early May 1914, he was announced as a RC de France player, but before he could make his debut, the First World War broke out in July, and he was injured in October, receiving three injuries, including a bayonet wound in the right foot (Triboulet being left-handed), and two wounds due to shrapnel: To the arm and chest, the latter being described as "two fingers below the heart" and into the lung. These injuries led to his discharge in 1915, which allowed him to play football again at Racing. In October 1911, Triboulet wanted to go to Rennes, but had to go to Cholet to carry out his military service for two years in the 77th Infantry Regiment, where he practiced with the patronage of the Jeune France de Cholet. Triboulet was selected because he was licensed to the Parisian club FC Levallois, becoming the first international player in the club's history, and received all of his selections as a player for Levallois, despite simultaneously playing with the Angers Université Club.

He earned his second international cap for France on 28 January 1912, with Triboulet creating the opening goal scored by Eugène Maës in a 1–1 draw with Belgium. However, an anonymous indinvidual cut out the match report from L'Auto and sent it to the aforementioned general, thus denouncing Private Triboulet; upon his return, he was notified to the barracks for a punished of eight days in the police station which then turned into eight days in prison, and he was then deprived of leave for two months. but he had to give it up following an injury and was finally replaced by Raymond Dubly, who was regarded as an inferior player.

During the War, now as a Racing player, Triboulet played two unofficial France-Belgium matches, in 1916 (1–4) and 1918 (2–5), and then played the first official France-Belgium match after the war on 9 March 1919, with Triboulet assisting the French equalizer by captain Gabriel Hanot in a 2–2 draw.

Later life and death Triboulet became the director of the Weeks factory, located in Saint-Just-en-Chaussée (textiles), and took care of the small club of Saint-Just, organized its merger with the US Creil. It was in Creil that he had a traffic accident when his car collided with a military sidecar and ended up in a ditch. Seriously injured, he was taken to a "health center" in Creil, where he died of his injuries on 30 April 1939, at the age of 49, and tragically, his wife committed suicide a week later by gas.

Career statistics France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Triboulet goal.