Georges Ouvray

Georges Maurice Ouvray was a French footballer who played as a forward for CA Paris in the late 1920s.

Career

Born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on 11 June 1905, Ouvray began his football career at CA Paris in 1927. Together with Jean Gautheroux, Marcel Langiller, and the Laurent brothers, he was a member of the CA Paris team that reached the 1928 Coupe de France final at Colombes on 6 May, which ended in a 3–1 loss to Red Star. During the final, he overtook the opposing captain Marcel Domergue time and time again, and even hit the woodwork once; therefore, the following day, the journalists of the French newspaper Le Miroir des sports stated that he was "truly the great player of the final".
A few months earlier, on 21 February 1928, the 22-year-old Ouvray earned his first international cap for France in a friendly match against Northern Ireland at Montrouge, scoring his side's fourth goal to seal a 4–0 victory. He remained loyal to CA Paris until 1933, when he left for Club Français, where he retired in 1935, aged 30.

Ouvray died in Fontenay-lès-Briis on 25 July 1983, at the age of 78.

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