Armand Cazeaux was a French

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who played as a

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for Athletic Club. Although little has been recorded of his life, he was one of the most important footballers in the amateur beginnings of Athletic Club, netting a goal in both the 1902 Copa de la Coronación Final and the 1903 Copa del Rey Final, which were the club's first pieces of silverware.

Biography

Born in France, he eventually ended up playing football in Spain and 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 1902 Copa de la Coronación (as Bizcaya) and the

1903 Copa del Rey The Copa del Rey 1903 was the first official staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. It followed the 1902 Copa de la Coronación, held to celebrate the coronation of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, which was won by Club V ...

, in which Cazeaux contributed with the decisive goal of a 2–1 win over

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

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in the 1903 final. In the 1904 Copa del Rey Final, Athletic were declared winners again without playing a match after their opponents failed to turn up. Between 1902 and 1903, he played five competitive matches, in which he scored three goals (Athletic Bilbao counts the matches played by Bizcaya as its own).

Honours

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: 1902 *

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...

: 1903,

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References

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