Étienne Mattler

Étienne Mattler

Mattler in 1937
Personal information
Date of birth	25 December 1905
Place of birth	Belfort, France
Date of death	23 March 1986 (age 80)
Place of death	Sochaux, France
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Full back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1921–1924	US Belfort
1924–1926	Strasbourg
1929–1946	Sochaux
International career
1930–1940	France	46	(0)
Managerial career
1944–1946	Sochaux
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Étienne Mattler (25 December 1905 – 23 March 1986) was a French international footballer, nicknamed Le Lion de Belfort, who played as a defender.

Career

Mattler, born in Belfort, played for the clubs US Belfort (1921–1927), AS Troyes (1927–1929), and FC Sochaux (1929–1946) where he won two Ligue 1 titles, in 1935 and 1938, and one Coupe de France, in 1937.

For the national team, he won 46 caps and participated in the 1930, 1934 and 1938 World Cups, being one of five players to have appeared in all three of the pre-war World Cups. He died in 1986, at the age of 80.

External links

• Player profile at the official web site of the French Football Federation
• Étienne Mattler at the French Football Federation (in French)
• Étienne Mattler at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)