Le football Sarrois de 1947 a 1952. Un contre-pied aux actions diplomatiques

Saar soccer from 1947 to 1952, Pierre Lanfranchi. After the Second World War, while integration of Saar soccer to France was part of governmental objectives to win pacification through denazification and de-Germanization, it demonstrated mostly a new interference of international political issues in sport. But neither pressure nor manoeuvres were effective in winning the teams away from Germany. The Saar, without really trying to understand its deep reasons, was able to show in practice that independence could exist in the stadium and to assert the primacy of the sports ethics over the reason of State.LANFRANCHI. Le football Sarrois de 1947 a 1952. Un contre-pied aux actions diplomatiques. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°26, avril-juin 1990. Le football, sport du siècle. pp. 59-66