André Chauvel

André Julien Guy Louis Chauvel was a French footballer who played as a forward for RC Roubaix and Rennes in the 1930s.

Career

Born in the Brittany town of Lamballe on 29 July 1909, Chauvel began his football career at RC Roubaix in 1932, aged 23. Together with William Hewitt, Edmond Leveugle, and Georges Verriest, he was a member of the Roubaix team that reached the 1933 Coupe de France final, which ended in a 3–1 loss to Excelsior. The following day, the journalists of the French newspaper Le Miroir des sports stated that he was "the most prominent man" of Roubaix's forward line, having "put in a considerable and unfortunately in vain effort".
That same year, Chauvel returned to Brittany, where he joined Rennes, with whom he reached the 1935 Coupe de France final in Colombes, which ended in a 3–0 loss to Olympique de Marseille. Rennes scored from a free-kick, but Chauvel was offside, which caused the referee Lucien Leclercq to disallowed it. He stayed at Rennes for three years, from 1933 until 1936, when he moved to Ligue 2 team Le Havre, where he retired in 1937, aged 28. In total, he scored 29 goals in 78 Ligue 1 matches.
In 1939, Chauvel briefly played for AC Chapelain, a team based in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre.

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