Maurice Meunier

Maurice Eugène Meunier (27 January 1890 – 27 February 1971) was a French footballer who played as a forward for Étoile des Deux Lacs and the France national team in the early 20th century.

Playing career Born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris on 27 January 1890, Meunier was seventeen when he joined the ranks of his nearby club Étoile des Deux Lacs in 1907, one of the many Catholic clubs affiliated with the Gymnastic and Sports Federation of French Patronages (FGSPF), whose general secretary Charles Simon, was also the head of the Étoile club. At EDL, he practiced several sports, especially athletics, specialising in the 110-metre hurdles event, in which he established a FGSPF record of 18,4 seconds, which stood for over two decades. which earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly against these same Belgians in Brussels on 9 May 1909.

In May 1918, Meunier, now in FC Lyon, started in the first-ever final of the Coupe de France, which ended in a 0–3 loss to Olympique Pantin. In the summer of 1919, the 29-year-old Meunier was a member of the French committee that went to the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, a large sports competition organized in celebration of the Allied victory in the War, where he won the 110m hurdles after improving his personal record to 16,8 seconds.

Death In 1929, Meunier settled in Courbevoie, where he died on 27 February 1971, at the age of 81.

Honours FC Lyon Coupe de France: Runner-up: 1917–18