Manuel Anatol

Manuel Anatol Arístegui ( born May 8, 1903 in Irun, † 17 May 1990) was a Spanish footballer, who also possessed French nationality and has played internationally for France. In addition, he was also a good athlete and participated as such in 1924 for Spain at the Olympic Games in Paris. Journalist and author Denis Chaumier referred to him as " Europeans and wanderer between two countries," the " a complete athlete [ and ] one of the best right-back of his epoch " was.

Club career

The son of a living on the Spanish border with France French Basques played as a young man, first for the reserve and in 1920 for the first team of Real Unión Irun football. In 1922 he began his engineering studies in Madrid and was at this time the dress of the local traditional clubs Gimnástica Española; the following year he continued his education in Bilbao and rejoined Unión Irun to. With its team of tall players won the Spanish Football Cup after a 1-0 playoff victory against Real Madrid in 1924. In Irúns team was a player whose biography has great similarities to the Manuel Anatol in personal, sporting and professional terms with the almost four years older Captain René Petit. Anatol and Petit, who remained throughout their playing career, Amateurs, were in a time when there were no comprehensive Spain League, both in 1924 as well as 1926 champion of ostbaskischen Irun Guipuzcoa Province. Until the mid- 1920s, Manuel Anatol also operated in parallel with the football in his clubs very successful in athletics; probably 1923, he was Spanish champion over 100, 200 and 400 meters and has played for the Olympic Summer Games 1924. About the 400 -m distance, he retired from there, however, in the first round.

Manuel Anatol wanted to avoid the regular commuting between his study and Irun and therefore join the Athletic Club; permission for this change he received from the Association in October 1926. By mid- 1927, has eleven games for Bilbao denied in the 1927/28 season, however, may not be a single, which could be explained by the fact that he graduated in that time. Immediately afterwards he had to do military service in France and joined there the Racing Club de France, where he stayed until 1932.

During his four years at Racing also existed in France still no national league; for the winner of the French Cup competition, the press often referred to as national champion. 1930 was Manuel Anatoly, who had in the meantime also become a national player ( see below), with the capital club tightly before winning this title. In the final, led Paris in which, in the final quarter of an hour Ozenne striker injured for the Goal Keeper Tassin had to guard the door until two minutes before the final whistle 1-0 before the FC Sète still equalized. Add the required extension to the elf could Capelle, Villa Plane and Veinante, where " still the semi-final replay against AC Amiens in the femur was " no longer keep up and defeated the South of France with 1:3. Two years later Anatol returned to Spain and played in the season 1932/33, for Atlético Madrid. Apparently he intended to remain in Spain after that; in any case he had already given a verbal commitment Real Valladolid. But instead, he moved to Erstdivisionär SO Montpellier - in France there was now a unified, professional league - with whom he finished the season 1933/34, in mid-table. A year later he was back in Paris with Racing Club, for whom he came in the 1934/35 season in 23 of the 30 league games for use. This strong, very international -Star team - to her included the Austrian Rudolf Hiden and Gusti Jordan, Raoul Diagne from French Guiana and the Englishman Fred Kennedy - finished the season in third place.

Then hung up his football boots Manuel Anatol on the nail and settled permanently in France, where he worked in a leading position for an armaments factory near Paris. As he held until his death as a 87 -year-old spent the decades otherwise, does not reveal the sources used.

In the National Team

For the first time in March 1929 in a friendly against Portugal was Manuel Anatol in the French national team, and the following nine games until May 1930, he was missing in only one: the 1:8 defeat in Zaragoza against Spain. On the ship, including the trip to South America six weeks -long participation in the first World Cup in Uruguay the regular players for professional reasons had to do without. His next two matches he played until February (1:2 against Czechoslovakia ) and in March 1931 in a 1-0 win against Germany, the first official international match between the " hereditary enemies " at all. Until May 1932 yet another four inserts for the Bleus, then he is no longer included due to its change of club Atlético Madrid, and also in the subsequent season at Montpellier, he had been unable to prove stronger than the now set the selection committee of the French Association " "Defenders pair Vandooren / Mattler to be. In this respect, Manuel Anatol was not appointed to the French World Cup squad and 1934, which was another competitor to Anatol's former main place with Jacques Mairesse.

In mid-December 1934, he finally came to his 16th match for France, despite the positive output game ( 3-2 against Yugoslavia) to be his last but mid-January 1935 for another game against the Spaniards, Vandooren was fit again. A goal has incidentally also achieved in the blue dress of Defense; in March 1930 transformed Manuel Anatol a brilliant free kick from 40 meters, which would not let the Swiss national team goalkeeper Charles Pasche stand a chance.

Palmarčs

Football

• Spanish Cup winners in 1924
• French Cup Finalist 1930
• Master of the Province of Gipuzkoa / Guipúzcoa: 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1926
• 16 A- internationals for France, a hit

Athletics

• Olympian 1924
• Spanish Champion over 100, 200 and 400 m (probably ) 1923