Maurice Mercery
Maurice Mercery was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for AS Française and the France national team in the early 1920s.
Career
Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on 20 April 1902, Mercery began playing football in his hometown club AS Française in 1919, aged 17.On 5 April 1920, he earned his first international cap for France in a friendly against England Amateurs in Rouen, which ended in a 0–5 loss. The following day, the journalists of French newspaper L'Auto described his performance as "a courageous debut", and added that "he lacked tactics and weakened the line, but is a player to watch". At the time of his debut, Mercery was two weeks shy from his 18th birthday, thus being among the youngest footballers to have played for the French national team.
A few months later, Mercery was one of the French athletes who participated in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, being a member of the second French team that competed in the Men's 4 × 400 metres relay.
After retiring from football, Mercery became a hotelier in Valmondois.