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Victor Gibson
Personal information
Full name	Arthur Henry Gibson
Date of birth	18 July 1888
Place of birth	Woolwich, England
Date of death	8 April 1958 (aged 69)
Place of death	Ruislip, England
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Morton
	Falkirk
	Plumstead
1911–1912	Espanyol
1912–1924	Olympique Cettois
1924–1926	Montpellier
Managerial career
1911–1912	Espanyol
1912	Catalonia
1914–1924	Olympique Cettois
1924–1925	Montpellier
1925–1929	Marseille
1929–1934	Sochaux
1934	SC Bastidienne
1934–1935	Hispano-Bastidienne
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Arthur Henry Gibson, also known as Victor Raine Gibson (18 July 1888 – 8 April 1958) was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder for RCD Espanyol, and later a coach active in Spain and France.^[1]^[2]

Early and personal life

Arthur Henry Gibson was born in Woolwich in 1888.^[3]^[4] He married in 1910 and had an infant daughter who died.^[4] He divorced his English wife in 1938 and married a Frenchwoman in 1939, with whom he also had a daughter.^[4]

Playing career

Gibson played for Morton, Falkirk, and Plumstead, and in 1911 he toured Catalonia with the latter club; in a match against Espanyol on 18 May 1911, he impressed the Catalan club and they signed him, along with Frank Allack and William Hodge.^[2]^[3]^[5]^[6]

Gibson quickly became the team's captain, and took on the role of manager.^[2] In July 1912, Allack and Gibson were dismissed from Espanyol for various acts of indiscipline, and he moved to French side Olympique Cettois.^[3]^[4] On 5 April 1914, Gibson started as a defender in the final of the 1914 USFSA Football Championship, which ended in a 0–3 loss to Olympique lillois.^[7] He stayed at the club for 12 years until 1924, when he moved to Montpellier, where he retired two years later in 1926, at the age of 38.^{[citation needed]}

Coaching career

While in Spain, Gibson performed the functions of a coach with the Catalonia national team once, in what was the team's first-ever game recognized by FIFA on 20 February 1912, which ended in a 7–0 loss to France.^[2]^[3]^[8] In France, Gibson coached the club sides of FC Cette,^[9] Montpellier, Marseille,^[9] Sochaux,^[10] SC Bastidienne and Hispano-Bastidienne.^[11]

Gibson led FC Cette to back-to-back finals in the Coupe de France in 1923 and 1924, but lost both, the first as coach (4–2 to Red Star Olympique), and the second as player and coach (3–2 to Marseille).^[3]^[12] However, he achieved his revenge by winning this cup twice in a row in 1926 and 1927 with Olympique de Marseille, beating AS Valentigney 4–1 in the former and US Quevilly 3–0 in the latter.^[3] He also led Sochaux to a title in the 1931 Peugeot Cup.^[3]

Later life and death

Gibson returned to England in the 1930s, working as a gardener and groundsman.^[4] He divorced his English wife in 1938 and married a Frenchwoman in 1939, with whom he also had a daughter.^[4] He died in Ruislip 8 April 1958, at the age of 69.^[3]^[4]

Honours

As a player

FC Sète

USFSA Football Championship:
- Runner-up (1): 1914^[7]

As a manager

FC Sète

Coupe de France
- Runner-up (2): 1923 and 1924^[3]

Olympique de Marseille

Coupe de France
- Champions (2): 1926 and 1927^[3]

Sochaux

Peugeot Cup
- Champions (1): 1931^[3]

References

^ "Gibson, Victor Raine Gibson – Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Arthur Henry GIBSON". periquito.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Gibson: el primer entrenador oficial de la selecció catalana. Ni era escocès, ni es deia Victor" [Gibson: the first official coach of the Catalan national team. He was neither Scottish, nor was his name Victor]. memoriesfutbolcatala.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Revealed: the true identity of Victor Gibson". www.scottishsporthistory.com.
^ "Plumstead FC de Londres contra CD Español" [Plumstead FC London v Spanish CD] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 18 May 1911. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ "CD Español ingressa refuerzos del Plumstead FC" [CD Español joins reinforcements from Plumstead FC] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 1 June 1911. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b "L'Olympique Lillois devient champion de France" [Olympique Lillois becomes champion of France]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). Le Matin. 6 April 1914. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Catalonia 0–7 France". hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com (in Spanish). Hemeroteca. 22 February 1912. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". RSSSF. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
^ "Les anciens entraîneurs du FCSM" [Former FCSM coaches]. www.fcsochaux.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 May 2010.
^ "Scots in opposition: Peter Farmer and Victor Gibson at the French Cup Final of 1924". www.scottishsporthistory.com.
^ "1923 Coupe de France Final Report" (in French). Archived from the original on 29 November 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2022.