Fernand Brunel (9 February 1907 - 11 March 1927) was a French international

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. He played as a striker for Gallia Club Lunel and then

FC Sète 34 FC Sète 34 is the current name of a French football club based in Sète and founded in 1901 as Olympique de Cette. The club has won the French league title twice (in 1934 and 1939) and the French cup also twice (1930 and 1934). In 1934 they bec ...

Life

Brunel started playing football for the l'Ecole Professionnelle de Nîmes, where he studied. He then enrolled at Lunel College, playing for Gallia Club Lunel's first team from 1922 until 1926. On 18 April 1926 he became a French international soccer player, playing with

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against

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played at the

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. He scored two goals that day. He joined FC Sète for the 1926/1927 season. He died on 11 March 1927, at the age of 20 from

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while performing his military service in

Sète Sète (; oc, Seta, ), also historically spelt ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises' ...

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* * 1907 births 1927 deaths People from Lunel French men's footballers France men's international footballers FC Sète 34 players Neurological disease deaths in France Deaths from meningitis Men's association football forwards Footballers from Hérault {{France-footy-forward-1900s-stub