Émile Dusart
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Émile Louis François Dusart | ||
| Date of birth | 2 August 1896 | ||
| Place of birth | Roubaix, France | ||
| Date of death | 6 January 1918 (aged 21) | ||
| Place of death | Sainte-Menehould, France | ||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1913–1914 | RC Roubaix | ||
| International career | |||
| 1914 | France | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Émile Louis François Dusart (2 August 1896 – 6 January 1918) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for RC Roubaix and the French national team in the early 1910s.
Playing career
Together with his brother André, he took out a license with his hometown club RC Roubaix in the early 1910s, but only became a regular in the club's first team during the 1913–14 season, aged 17, where he formed a great wing with Raymond Dubly.[1] He made up for his frail build and small height of 1.66 meters with his technique, being selected by the Northern team to play a friendly against a selection of Normandy in April 1914.[1] The following month, on 31 May 1914, the 17-year-old Dusart earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly against Hungary at Budapest, which ended in a 5–1 loss.[1][2] In doing so, he became the fourth-ever RC Roubaix players to represent the French national team, after Émile Sartorius, Maurice Vandendriessche, and Dubly.[3]
Death
When World War I broke out in July 1914, Dusart was still a few weeks shy of his 18th birthday, so he was only incorporated in April 1915,[1] into Saint-Cyr.[4] A second lieutenant of the 365th infantry regiment, he died on 6 January 1918, in an ambulance taking him to the Sainte-Menehould hospital after wounds received in combat on 2 January.[1][5][6][7] The following month, in February, one of his brothers played for the Northern France selection in a friendly against a LFA selection.[8] Despite being over 40 years old, his father also fought in World War I, but unlike his son, he survived it.[1]