Georges Bayrou Explained

Georges Bayrou
Position:Forward
Birth Date:21 December 1883
Birth Place:Sète, France
Death Place:Montpellier, France
Years1:1904–1908
Clubs1:Gallia Club Paris
Nationalyears1:1908
Nationalteam1:France
Nationalcaps1:1
Nationalgoals1:0

Georges Bayrou (21 December 1883  - 5 December 1953) was a French footballer.[1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]

Career

Bayrou played for Gallia Club Paris in 1904–1908, where he won the 1905 USFSA Football Championship. On 22 October 1908, he played his first and only match for France in a 17–1 defeat against Denmark during the 1908 Summer Olympics.[3]

In 1908, he became the president of Olympique de Cette, which later became FC Sète, in which they won two Coupe de France in 1930 and 1934, and two Division 1 titles in 1933–34 and 1938–39, during his tenure. The Stade Georges-Bayrou stadium is named after him.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Georges Bayrou . Olympedia . 28 March 2021.
  2. Georges Bayrou Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202733/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/georges-bayrou-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 29 September 2018.
  3. Web site: Georges Bayrou . fff.fr . fr .
  4. Web site: Enceintes mythiques : le stade Georges Bayrou de Sète " la mecque du football " . docteur-es-sport.fr . fr . 27 September 2013 .