Sadi Dastarac

Dastarac signed for Gallia Gallia Club in 1906, where he was dropped back into the midfield, and two years later, in 1908, he made a good performance for the Paris football team in its annual matches against Northern France, being described in the French press as "a youngster with great speed and a powerful shot". Later that year, in October 1908, Dastarac was selected for the so-called France B squad that competed in the football tournament of the 1908 Olympic Games in London, in which they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Denmark (0–9). He played this match as a right-back, and interestingly, the right-back who played with the A team was Georges Bayrou, who was the captain of the same club where Dastarac operated, Gallia. Despite this, Dastarac was re-selected to play in the Paris-North match of 1909, as well as Paris-London in January 1910, in which he was described as France's best player, "serving Verbrugge and Cyprès quite intelligently". Back in 1908, he was France's fourth choice in his position, behind Maurice Vandendriessche, Charles Wilkes, and Julien du Rhéart, but the first chose Belgian nationality when he reached the age of majority, the second retired in late 1908, and the third got injured in early 1910, so on 12 March 1910, he started for France in an unofficial match against England AFA, which ended in a resounding 0–20 loss. On 18 April 1909, Dastarac started in the final of the Coupe Dewar in 1909 at Stade de Charentonneau, which ended in a 5–0…

Sadi Dastarac was born on 14 June 1888 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Landes, near Dax, into a large family of ten children, and he was named after the President of the Republic Sadi Carnot, elected in 1887. His father was the director of the Forges de Buglose. He began his football career in Paris in the ranks of the Lycée Charlemagne team (the Carolingian Union), in 1905, and despite his tender age of 17, he was already well-built and of a good height, thus playing as a center forward.

Gallia Club Coupe Dewar: Champions (1): 1909 Runner-up (1): 1910