IN THE ARCHIVES – On October 9, 1921, the Sporting Union Agenais stadium was named Alfred Armandie. Like other rugby clubs in the region, stadiums are named after a player who died during the Great War. The opportunity to open the archives with the article published in October 2018
The civil document bears the name of Alfred Armandi. The writing of his surname varied: Armandui, Armandy and finally Armandie, as written on the frontispiece of the SU Agen stadium, inaugurated on October 9, 1921.
Born on December 23, 1884 in Agen, he died on September 25, 1915, the first day of the Battle of the Marne. Incorporated into the 9th Infantry Regiment in 1905, permanently discharged in 1907 for tuberculosis; in view of the losses, he was reinstated in March 1915. He served in the 22nd Colonial Infantry Regiment (RIC). He lies in a mass grave in Main-de-Massiges.
Alfred Armandie, creator of Sporting Union Agenais, played three quarters then before.
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Second child of Benoît, originally from Crandelles, near Aurillac, and Antoinette Vidaillac, born in Monclard’Agenais (47), Alfred is a “sportsman”, practicing athletics, boxing, fencing, rowing.
In 1900, he met two Englishmen, a reader at the Palissy high school and a dentist, like him, practicing in Agen. He discovers the rules of football-rugby. Three-quarters, then before, he transmits his passion for ovals to his friends. In 1908, the Sporting Club Agenais merged with the Union Sportive Agenaise. The Sporting Union Agen is created. A century later, the SUA is playing in the Top 14 and has won eight Brennus shields.
