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4 unusual facts about Georges de Regibus


Charles Champaud

In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud also played an important role in introducing football to the country and was the person to bring the sport to the capital city of Sofia in 1895 (the first football game in Bulgaria being in Varna in 1894, organized by another Swiss teacher, Georges de Regibus).

Georges de Regibus

In that city, he worked as a locksmith at the Jura–Simplon Railway carriage repair works while his mother earned money by selling chestnuts.

Upon returning to Switzerland in 1896, he opened a café in Treycovagnes and then another one in Yverdon.

Louis-Emil Eyer

In 1894, Eyer and nine other Swiss pedagogues, including Georges de Regibus and Charles Champaud, were invited to Bulgaria by the Minister of Education Georgi Zhivkov to lay the foundations of sports education in the country.



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