He was destined to be the author of the first goal in the history of soccer World Cups. He was French, he was 1.62 meters tall and they called him Little Cadet. Lucien Laurent who, on July 13, 1930, made history in his own right by opening the scoring for France in their match against Mexico (4-1, the final result) at the World Cup in Uruguay, which won the organizing team ..
The scene of that goal, the first of the World Cups, was the lost stadium of Pocitos, in Peñarol, in Montevideo. Lucien Laurent himself recalled the move thousands of times throughout his life: “I went into the middle of the area and volleyed a pass from Liberati to score a beautiful goal.” He died in 2005 at the age of 97 in Besançon. There, at Besanzón RC, he retired as an active football player in 1946. He was born in Saint-Maur-des Fossés on December 10, 1907. They say that even as an octogenarian he continued to play with his friends.
The most unusual thing is that Laurent also conceded France’s first in a World Cup, because Thepot, goalkeeper for the Gauls, was injured and Laurent himself took his place. He was beaten by the Mexican Carreño in the 70th minute.
But let’s go back to the work of Lucien Laurent, who marked him at the age of 22. There is no picture of that ‘target’, much less a filmed image. The one in Uruguay 1930, the first in history, was the only World Cup played by the French attacker, who missed out through injury in Italy in 1934, which the hosts also won. Little Cadet’s career took place at various clubs: CA Paris, Sochaux, Club Français, Rennes, Strasbourg and finally Besançon.
Lucien Laurent fought for France during World War II, was captured by the Germans in 1942 and freed two years later. He later returned to Besanzón to finish his football career. Putting down his boots, he bought a restaurant, where he did not talk much about that day in 1930. Until a gala at the 1990 World Cup in Italy when Lucien Laurent, in the 1998 France World, began to remember. The Cup has been elevated to the ‘national treasure’ category by his compatriots. To evoke the adventure that began on June 19 in Villafranche-sur-Mer, when that French team began a 15-day boat trip across the Atlantic until they played the first World Cup in history.
Source: La Verdad
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