Robert Antoine Eucher (14 June 1884 – 23 May 1940) was a French footballer who played as a

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for AS Française and in one match for the

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in May 1908, and who was then selected as a member of the French B squad that competed in the football tournament at the

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in October, but he did not play in any matches.

Playing career

Eucher was born on 14 June 1884 in the

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, where he began his football career at AS Française in 1904, aged 20. On 2 April 1905, Eucher played for

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in the very first Paris-

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match, helping his side to a 4–1 win. On 5 April 1908, Eucher started in the final of the 1908

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, which ended in a 2–1 loss to CA Paris. In the following month, on 10 May, the 23-year-old Eucher earned his first and only

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for the French national team in a

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against the

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, replacing

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, who had been retained in the North for his duties as an elector; France lost 4–1. A few months later, in October, the

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(USFSA) selected Eucher for the French B squad that competed in the football tournament at the

, but he failed to feature in a single game as they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by

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. Eucher helped AS Française win the 1908

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, which was awarded to the team composed of at least eight French players with the highest ranking in the USFSA Paris championship. On 18 April 1909, he started in the final of the

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, which ended in a 0–5 loss to Gallia Club. In 1909 and 1910, Eucher played for France in two unofficial matches against England AFA, the first on 18 March 1909 in

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(0–8), and then on 12 March 1910 in

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, the latter ending in a resounding 0–20 loss. On 5 March 1911, Eucher played an international match against English club

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, helping his side to a 4–1 win.

Later life and death

During the

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, Eucher fought for the 101st Infantry Regiment, and after the War, he became a cashier at the Havas Agency in

. Eucher died in the

on 23 May 1940, at the age of 55.

Honours

; AS Française *

: **Champions (1):

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: **Runner-up (1):

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eucher, Robert 1884 births 1940 deaths Footballers from Paris French men's footballers France men's international footballers Olympic footballers for France Footballers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards 20th-century French sportsmen