Which french novelist played in goal for algeria?

Jess	Albert Camus Dec 10 02, 3:29 PM

nosmoking

I believe he only played for his university - not the country Apr 26 11, 6:10 PM

gtho4

nosmoking is correct ---------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Camus: thinker, goalkeeper By Jim White The Telegraph - Thursday 28 April 2011 Albert Camus died 50 years ago this week. As goalkeepers go, he was a writer of near genius ---------------------------------------------------------------- Never mind Gerrard or Rooney, there is only one name appropriate to decorate the replica shirt of the thinking football fan. Each year Philosophy Football, perhaps the only company in Britain founded in homage to a Monty Python sketch, sells more than 5,000 of their goalkeeper’s top with the name Albert Camus embroidered across the shoulder. On its front is his famous saying: “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.” Camus died in a car accident 50 years ago this week, aged 47. As is often the way with those plucked prematurely from their thinking posts, it was a violent death that sealed his mystique. In the five decades since, he has come to be recognised as many things: roué, novelist, drinker, resistance hero, one-time friend but later sworn enemy of Jean-Paul Sartre. More to the point, he is now recognised as a man who understood the true profundity of football. Part of the Camus mythology concerns his own facility at the game. He has been widely credited as having played for the Algerian national team in the Thirties. There are those who even claim he even wore the No1 shirt for France. Sadly, the truth is more mundane: he was rather better at spinning grand aphorisms about football than actually playing it ... After playing for his school team in Algiers, Camus continued in goal for the Racing Universitaire Algerios (RUA) junior team. It was here that his career ended. In 1930, aged 18, he contracted TB, was confined to bed for several months and, after he recovered, his lungs were too damaged for him to play again. But he continued to love the game. In the Fifties he was invited by the RUA alumni magazine to contribute something about his time at the university. His essay included the line now carried on the Philosophy Football goalie’s jersey. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6941924/Albert-Camus-thinker-goalkeeper.html Apr 27 11, 7:34 PM