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Lucien Gamblin, born on the 22nd of July in 1890 in Ivry-sur-Seine and died on the 30th of August, 1972 in Paris, and was a French football player and journalist.

Biography
This defender nicknamed "Lulu" had 17 selections for the French football team between 1911 and 1923.

During the First World War, he was mobilized in the army and joined the 76th Infantry Regiment.

He played during the 1917-1918 season at the French club. After the defeat of his club in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France against Olympique, the journalist from L'Auto judges. On June 29, 1919, he lost in the final against the Czechs at the Inter-Allied Games.

He was the captain of the France team which beat an English national team for the first time, that of the amateurs, on May 5, 1921 at the Pershing stadium in Paris.

During the three successes of Red Star in the Coupe de France, Lucien Gamblin was the captain.

His sports career completed, Lucien Gamblin became a sports journalist at L'Auto and then at France Football, in particular.

His ashes were placed in box 14,591 of the Père-Lachaise columbarium, before being removed.

Honours

 * Winner of the Coupe de France en 1921, 1922, and 1923 with Red Star

Distinctions

 * Knight of the Legion of Honor on April 29, 1918, on the front, on the occasion of his seventh citation.



Liens externes

 * L'Homme sportif du jour : Lucien Gamblin, Le Miroir des sports, 17 février 1921, p.103.