André Didisheim (23 August 1889 – 30 July 1975), sometimes wrongly referred to as Ditisheim or Didixein, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Madrid FC and Athletic Bilbao.
[5][7] Due to the absence of both Madrid and Atlético from the 1909 Copa del Rey, Athletic Bilbao ended up being reinforced mainly with players from their subsidiary Atlético, such as Antonio Vega de Seoane, but also with three from Madrid, Julián Ruete, Luis Saura del Pan, and Didisheim, specifically for the 1909 cup, in which Bilbao was knocked out in the first round by Club Ciclista of San Sebastián.
[3] It was then that occurred to him the possibility that his name was written wrong, and he decided to transform the "x" into "sh" to convert Didixein into Didishein, a surname with clear Hebrew roots, especially if the final letter of changed to m.[3] He then found an advertisement in El Imparcial of Madrid on 17 November 1907, stating that a "Young Swiss man, wishing to learn Spanish, already knowing French and German.
[3] After the J led him to a dead end,[a] Azumendi kept looking and found out that between 1907 and 1909, there were two Didisheims residing in Madrid, Jean-Louis, and André, so the investigation then moved on to find which one could be the footballer, but that sport did not appear as an important element in either biography and despite trying to contact his heirs, that path did not advance.
[3] It was only a photograph of André as a young man that clarified that he was the same one found in the old images of Madrid; furthermore, in his obituary in L'Impartial on 31 July 1975, the deceased was remembered as a great athlete who at the beginning of the century was in Spain and played for a Spanish team.