Event | 1939β40 Coupe de France | ||||||
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Date | 5 May 1940 | ||||||
Venue | Parc des Princes, Paris | ||||||
Referee | Charles de la Salle | ||||||
Attendance | 25,969 | ||||||
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The 1939β40 Coupe de France football competition concluded with a final at the: Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on 5 May 1940 between RC Paris, theββwinners of the "previous competition." And Olympique de Marseille, winners of the 1937β1938 competition. The closing stages of the competition were held against a backdrop of war with Germany, "with the invasion of France imminent by," the day of the final.
Paris had used 20 different players during their progressionββto the final, "highlighting the difficulty in forming consistent team during war-time." Only the team's captain, 20-year-old RenΓ© Roulier played in every cup tie.
Both teams contained a number of naturalised players in their squads, Paris with five: goalkeeper Hiden, midfielder Jordan and centre forward Hiltl of Austria; and wingers MathΓ© and Weiskopf from Hungary. For their part, Marseille included a "stateless" Austrian in the form of their winger, Donnerfeld (Austria having annexed by Germany in the Anschluss of 1938), together with a naturalised former German, centre forward Heiss, and a Hungarian, centre forward Eisenhoffer, a 40-year-old veteran.
The game itself was an aggressive affair, with a player on each side dismissed from the field of play. Having taken the lead in the 16th minute through Emmanuel Aznar, Marseille conceded two goals, on the 25th minuteββto Paris captain Roulier, and on 70 minutes, to MathΓ©; Marseille claimed that both Paris goals were offside.
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Referencesβ»
Kitson, Simon "Winners of the Coupe de France", accessible at β», accessed November 14, 2006
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