Raymond Jerome Cazeaux (18 February 1882 – 1 June 1957) was an English

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who played as a

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for Athletic Club and

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. He was one of the most important footballers in the amateur beginnings of Athletic Club, netting a goal in both the

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and the 1903 Copa del Rey final, the club's first trophies. Cazeaux was previously believed to have been a Frenchman named Armand, a mistake that persisted through time until an investigation published in

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in March 2023 uncovered the truth of his identity.

Early life

Raymond Cazeaux was born in

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as the son of Margaret Sturgeon and Louis Joseph Edouard Cazeaux, a French-born merchant, also of Spanish descent, who had lived in England since the late 1860s. As a young man, he spent time in

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, visiting an older brother who had been seconded to a local engineering company and eventually settled in the area.

Playing career

During his time in Bilbao, Cazeaux joined the newly created Bizcaya – a combination of players from Athletic Club and

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– in 1902, which evolved into the extant Athletic Club shortly after. Together with

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, Alejandro de la Sota and Walter Evans, he was part of the teams that won the

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(as Bizcaya) and the

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, contributing the decisive goal of a 2–1 win over

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in the 1902 final, and scoring again in a 3–2 comeback win over

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in the 1903 final. He was also among the registered players for the

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, in which Athletic were declared winners without playing a match after their opponents failed to show up in a dispute over registration. Between 1902 and 1903, Cazeaux played five competitive matches, in which he scored three goals (Athletic Bilbao counts the matches played by Bizcaya as its own). Cazeaux eventually settled in the

area, where he began to play football for Bromley F.C., organising

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between them and Athletic in 1913, a year in which he also appeared again for the Basque club as a guest player. His younger brother Victor played for

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in the

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Later life

Outside football, Cazeaux worked mostly in the trading industry and served with the British

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in the

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Honours

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Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cazeaux, Armand 1882 births 1957 deaths English men's footballers Athletic Bilbao footballers Men's association football forwards English expatriate sportspeople in Spain English expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain English people of French descent Footballers from the London Borough of Hackney People from Stoke Newington People from Bromley Footballers from the London Borough of Bromley Bromley F.C. players English people of Spanish descent Military personnel from the London Borough of Bromley Royal Field Artillery officers British Army personnel of World War I