Albert Félix Emile Courquin (5 August 1898 â 2 February 1940) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for Red Star, Olympique Lillois, and the French national team in the early 1920s.
Albert Courquin was born on 5 August 1898 in Bourbourg, Nord, as the son of Albert Courquin (1875âÂÂ?) and Marie Desoutter (1873âÂÂ1899). He married Mathilde Gailly.
After playing for Red Star, Courquin joined Olympique Lillois in 1921, where he helped his team win the 1922 (DH Nord). He quickly became one of the club's best players, and thus, on 15 January 1922, he earned his first (and only) international cap in a friendly match against Belgium at Colombes, helping his side to a 2âÂÂ1 win.
Two years later, on 13 January 1924, Courquin started for France B in a friendly match against the A-team of Luxembourg, helping his side to a 2âÂÂ1 win. After leaving Lillois in 1923, he returned to Red Star, where he played from 1924 to 1926. He later played for US Saint-Pol, being the only player in the club's history, along with Fernand Caucheteux, who wore the French jersey.
Recalled to military activity in August 1939, Courquin was quickly discharged due to hypertensive nephritis, from which he died on 2 February 1940, at the age of 41, at his home in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise.