Jean Fidon


Jean Georges Fidon was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for CA Paris and the French national team in the late 1920s.

Playing career

Born in the Seine-et-Marne town of Meaux on 1 June 1906, Fidon began his football career at CA Paris in 1926, aged 18. Together with René Quentier, 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. On the following day, the journalists of the French newspaper Le Miroir des sports stated that "Fidon has the fault of not lasting ninety minutes, with his fatigue explaining why he let Brouzes' dribble past him without opposing it", simply "remaining in front of him as if paralyzed", which allowed Brouzes to score Red Star's third goal.
The previous year, on 12 June 1927, the 21-year-old Fidon earned his first international cap for France in a friendly match against Hungary at Budapest, coming off the bench to replace André Rollet in the 28th minute, when France was already 3–0; at half-time, Fidon was moved to center-half, but France still lost 13–1. He remained loyal to CA Paris until 1934, when he left for Amiens, where he retired in 1935, aged 29.

Death

Fidon died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 16 August 1992, at the age of 86.

Honours

;CA Paris