.jpg) Canelle circa 1913 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Fernand Émile Canelle | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1882-01-02)2 January 1882 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | 17th arrondissement of Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 11 September 1951(1951-09-11) (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Rueil-Malmaison, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1893 | Etoile Sportive Parisiennne | ||||||||||||||||
| 1893–1894 | Club Français | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1894–1896 | West Norwood | ||||||||||||||||
| 1896–1913 | Club Français | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1900 | France (Olympic) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1902–1904 | France (unofficial) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1902–1905 | Paris | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1904–1908 | France | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Fernand Émile Canelle (2 January 1882 – 11 September 1951) was a Frenchfootballer who played as aforward and later as adefender forClub Français.[2] He competed in thefootball tournament at the1900 Olympic Games inParis, winning a silver medal as a member of theUSFSA Olympic team representing France, which was primarily made up of Club Français players.[3][1]
He also played six matches for theofficial French national team between 1904 and 1908.[1][4]
Fernand Canelle was born in the17th arrondissement of Paris on 2 January 1882, and together withGeorges Garnier and the Huteau brothers, he was a member of the small group of middle school students from the Chaptal college who, in 1893, founded an unofficial club called theEtoile Sportive Parisiennne, which was presided by Canelle's father, Lucien, and which was soon absorbed by Club Français, so called because it did not include any English players.[5]
In the mid-1890s, the 13-year-old Canelle received one of the scholarships that theParis City Council awarded to finance language study trips in England, so even though he had acquired his practice of the game at Etoile, it was across theChannel where he developed his game, and even trained with theLondon-based clubsSelhurst andWest Norwood,[5][6] where he mastered the so-called ABCs of technique, so when he returned to his homeland, he was constantly described as a far more advanced and superior player than his fellow countrymen.[5] According to Reeves, captain of the Norwood and Selhurst Football Club interviewed in October 1900, he was one of the best French forwards.[5][6]
In July and October 1896, the 14-year-old Canelle was playing in the second team of Club Français,[7][8] making his debut for the first team during their triumphant campaign at the 1897Coupe Manier, which required clubs to field only three foreigners during a time where the majority of Parisian clubs had ten, or even eleven.[5] In the Coupe Manier final, CF defeated the newly crowdedchampions of FranceStandard AC by the score of 4–3 afterextra-time; the local press stated that "Canelle was one of those who played the best", and "takes a definitive place as of today in the first team".[9]
He only became a consistent starter for Club Français in 1898,[10] breaking through as an attacking winger thanks to his speed, energy, and his lighter build of only 1.69 meters tall and weigh of about 70 kilos.[5]
On 16 April 1899, Canelle started in the play-off match against Standard AC to decide the 1898–99USFSA Paris Championship, helping his side to a 3–2 win.[11] This victory qualified the club to the1899 USFSA national championship, in which Club Français withdrew from the final before facingLe Havre.[12] Later that year, on 23 October 1899, Canelle started as a forward for Club Français in the 1899Coupe Manier final atSuresnes, scoring the opening goal in an eventual 6–0 win overRC Roubaix.[13]
Together with Garnier,Gaston Peltier, andMarcel Lambert, Canelle was a member of the Club Français team that won the 1899–1900 USFSA Paris championship.[14] On 29 April 1900, Canelle started in the 1900Challenge International du Nord final inTourcoing, scoring a consolation goal in a 3–2 loss to Le Havre.[15] In the following week, on 6 May, he started as a forward in another final against Le Havre AC,1900 USFSA Football Championship, this time losing 1–0.[16] Later that year, on 23 December, Garnier started in the final of the1900 Coupe Manier atJoinville, helping his side to a 1–0 win overUA I arrondissement.[17]
As early as 1901, Canelle began to abandon the wings, and started pairing in the back with the BelgianAlfred Bloch, orPierre Allemane, and from 1903 onwards, he was systematically found at full-back, but despite his positional change, he was still selected.[5]
On 4 January 1903, Canelle started in the final of the 1902 Coupe Manier atLe Vésinet, helping his side to keep a clean-sheet in a 7–0 win overOlympique Lillois.[18] Three months later, on 15 March, he started as a defender in the final of the 1903Coupe Dewar against United SC, but despite "a superb line clearance just a meter from his goal", CF lost 4–3.[19]
Following an injury in October 1908, Canelle retired from football, although he kept making a few sporadic appearances, such as playing in goal for an inferior team of the Club Français in 1910, at the age of 28.[5] In late 1910, he was sometimes playing as agoalkeeper, being described as "very skillful with his hands".[20] Canelle was initially meant to start the final of the1912 Coupe Dewar atColombes on 14 April, but was eventually replaced by Bos; CF lost 3–1 to RC France.[21] He was still playing for Club Français as late as May 1913, in which the 31-year-old Canelle was described as still being one of the best players in his position.[22]
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Canelle was listed as a forward for theUSFSA team at the1900 Olympic Games.[23] He was selected for both matches, which ended in a 4–0 loss toUpton Park on 20 September, and in a 6–2 victory over Belgium, which was mostly made up of students from the French-speakingUniversité libre de Bruxelles.[5][24] The French team came second and Canelle was thus awarded with a silver medal.[3][1]
In 1902, Canelle played as a forward for aParis XI that facedMarlow F.C. in England, which ended in a 4–0 loss.[5]
In 1904, Canelle, now a defender, played threeunofficial matches for France, namely againstCorinthian (11–4 loss), as well asSouthampton twice (11–0 and 6–1 losses), which was already a professional team at the time.[5][25] In the latter match, he played as a full-back, the exact same position as Southampton's team captainGeorge Molyneux, who after the match declared "Your best player is, without a doubt, Canelle".[5] On 2 April 1905, he again played for Paris, this time in the very first Paris-Nord match (an annual test match for the French national team), helping his side to a 4–1 win.[26] A few years later, in 1908, the 26-year-old Canelle, who was already called a veteran, was described by Molyneux as "an impeccable player, a perfect shooter, adept at all the subtleties of the clearance game".[5]
On 1 May 1904, the 22-year-old Canelle was the captain of France in theirfirst-ever official match, afriendly cup match againstBelgium at theStade du Vivier d'Oie, which ended in a 3–3 draw.[4][27] He was also France's captain in its next two matches, leading the Blues to their first-ever victory, againstSwitzerland (1–0) on 12 February 1905, and to their first-ever defeat, against Belgium on 7 May,[4][1] in which he become the team's goalkeeper after replacingGeorges Crozier, who was forced to leave his teammates during the match, which ended in a 7–0 loss.[5]
In 1906, Canelle his fourth internationalcap in a friendly match againstEngland amateurs on 1 November, conceding apenalty kick on an unintentional handball, butVivian Woodward intentionally pulls it wide.[5] In total, Canelle made six appearances for theFrance national team from 1904 to 1908,[4][1][10][28] and he was set to represent France in thefootball tournament at the1908 Olympic Games inLondon, but an injury in October prevented him from doing so.[5]
Canelle was also educated, and he wrote and published a series of articles in the French newspaperL'Auto, including a chronicle of the 1907 match against Belgium, where he praised his teammateGeorges Bon, but most notably, to explain howoffside worked (9 November 1905), or to analyze the play of the defender (19 November 1908).[5] In 1907, he co-wrote, withFernand Bidault, a book entitled:La stratégie du Football-Association.[5]
When his father Lucien died in 1905, he took over the presidency of the Club Français and ran it with the help ofCharles Bernat until the outbreak of theFirst World War in 1914.[5] In 1932, Bernat wanted to try the adventure ofprofessionalism, but Canelle refused and remained faithful to his English training, a fierce supporter of complete amateurism.[5]
Canelle devoted himself, always voluntarily, within the framework of theFFF commissions, helping to create a French corporate cup, as well as international matches, from 1926 onwards.[5]
Outside of football, he was a sales employee and jewelry representative.[5][29]
Canelle died inRueil-Malmaison on 11 September 1951, at the age of 69.[4][5]
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