Maurice Vandendriessche (2 April 1887 – 18 November 1959) was a French-Belgo footballer who played as a midfielder for RC Roubaix and the French national team.
[2][3][4] Vandendriessche was born in Lille on 2 April 1887, as the eighth child in a family of eleven, to a Belgian father, a carpenter, and a French mother.
[5] For instance, he was reported in Melbourne in 1912, married in Roubaix in 1913, created a French Sports Association (ASF) in Sydney in 1914, and then spent the entire duration of the First World War in France, until 1920.
[2][3][5] He earned his second and final international cap for France two weeks later on 23 March, in another away friendly, this time against England amateurs in London, which ended in a resounding 12–0 loss.
[5] He had not presented himself to the review board in 1907, which proves that he had made his decision well before 1908, so several football historians have discussed why France selected a player who was going to change nationality at the beginning of the following month.
[5] He was also a member of the Belgian Front Wanderers, the team that toured England in 1917, where they played against the British and Canadian army on 25 and 28 November.