Auguste Trousselier was a French

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who played as a

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for

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and France (UIAFA) in the early 1910s. He was the brother of

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, a fellow footballer, and

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, winner of the

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Playing career

Born in the

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, Trousselier began his football career at his hometown club

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in the early 1910s. On 30 April 1911, he started in the final of the 1911 USFSA Football Championship in

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, where one of his shots resulted in his side's opening goal in an eventual 2–3 loss to

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, a team made-up of English and Swiss emigrants; after the match, the French journalist Robert Desmarets wrote on ''L'Auto'' (the future ''

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'') that "Trousselier was the most courageous of the attack". On 20 February 1912, Trousselier was playing for

when he earned his first (and only) unofficial

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for France (UIAFA), a

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against

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, scoring twice to help his side to a 7–0 victory; however, Desmarets expressed disappointed over his game, attributing it "to the emotion inherent in any international debut. He is thus one of the top scorers of UIAFA's France with two goals, alongside René Bagnol, Carlos Bacrot, and club teammate Albert Eloy. In 1913, the

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selected Trousselier to play for the so-called ''Lions des Flandres'', a regional

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representing Northern France, in a

against the English Wanderers on 1 November, which ended in a 1–4 loss.

Later life

During the

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, Trousselier was taken prisoner.

Honours

;

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: **Runner-up (1):

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References

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