Jules Rimet

Jules Rimet ( born October 24, 1873 in Theuley -les- Lavoncourt, † October 16th 1956 in Paris ) is considered alongside Enrique office as the founder of the Football World Cup. He was 1919-1945 president of the French Football Federation and from 1921 to 1954 president of FIFA.

Jules Rimet was born the son of a food retailer. After leaving school, he studied law.

In 1897 he founded with some friends the French tradition club Red Star Paris, which he was president for some time. In April 1919, he became president of the new French Football Federation (initially FFFA, later FFF).

In addition, Rimet was elected on March 1, 1921 as President of the FIFA. At this time the world football association had only 20 members. The implementation of the Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam in 1928 was motivation for Rimet to lift together with the wealthy Uruguayan Enrique Buero a World Cup of baptism. In Amsterdam, 24 teams at the start and Uruguay were was Olympic champion. This was also a reason that the Uruguay FIFA responsible for the alignment of the first FIFA World Cup 1930. Rimet thus applies as the inventor of the World Cup Soccer Championships. In the same year was voted on to the FIFA Congress with 25:5 votes to host the World Cup every four years starting in 1930. With the opening of the tournament on July 18, 1930 in Montevideo a new era of world football began.

Your spiritual father honor was the trophy that was handed down to 1970 as a trophy, called 1950 " Coupe Jules Rimet ". After the third win of the Brazilians in the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico this trophy went over all in the possession of Brazil, but was now stolen. German viewers will remember Jules Rimet by watching the recording of the final match of the soccer World Cup in 1954 in Switzerland. The then 80 -year-old Jules Rimet handed in his last World Cup tournament as president of FIFA German team captain Fritz Walter after playing the World Cup. In the same year he resigned his position as FIFA president.

Jules Rimet died on October 16, 1956 in Paris.