Ernst Jean-Joseph

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ernst Jean-Joseph

| image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0615-0032, Fußball-WM, Italien - Haiti 3-1.jpg

| caption = Jean-Joseph (on the ground, left) versus Italy

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1948|06|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|08|14|1948|06|11|df=y}}

| height =

| position = Center back

| years1 = 1969–1977 | clubs1 = Violette A.C.|

| years2 = 1976 | clubs2 = Ottawa Tigers

| years3 = 1978 | clubs3 = Chicago Sting

| years4 = 1978– | clubs4 = Violette A.C.|

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| caps3 = 9

| goals3 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 1972–1980 | nationalteam1 = Haiti| nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 =

| manageryears1 = 1984

| managerclubs1 = Violette A.C.

}}

Ernst Jean-Joseph (11 June 1948 – 14 August 2020) was a Haitian football midfielder who played for Haiti in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070921122807/http://fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=39/teams/team=43908.html 1974 FIFA World Cup Germany] He played for Violette A.C. and briefly for Chicago Sting.[http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/J/Jean-Joseph.Ernst.htm NASL career stats] In the summer of 1976, he played in the National Soccer League with Ottawa Tigers.{{Cite news|last=Bishop|first=Jim|date=31 March 1976|title=Tigers place emphasis on junior squad|page=29|work=Ottawa Citizen}}

Described as a "red-haired mulatto" by Brian Glanville,{{cite book|author=Brian Glanville|title=The Story of the World Cup: 2014: The Essential Companion to Brazil 2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWaHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT211|date=14 January 2014|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-31254-2|pages=211–}} Jean-Joseph failed a doping test after Haiti's opening match with Italy in 1974. After first contending that he had received a “lot of pills” from his physician in Haiti for treatment of asthma (and being contradicted by the team doctor, who told the media he had no such ailment), he admitted that he had used a stimulant containing phenmetrazine to improve his performance. Jean-Joseph was the first player to be suspended for using a banned substance in the history of the World Cup."Haitian Banned for Using Drug", New York Times, 19 June 1974 p.55{{cite web|title=World Cup moments: Emmanuel Sanon ends Dino Zoff's resistance|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/world-cup-moments-emmanuel-sanon-ends-dino-zoff-s-resistance-1.3479195|publisher=www.irishtimes.com|accessdate=12 April 2020|author=Simon Burnton|date=6 June 2018}}

The vice-president of the Haitian FA, Major Acedius St. Louis, was also the commander of the Leopards, a notorious elite battalion of the Haitian army under Jean-Claude Duvalier’s personal command.

Haitian officials dragged Jean-Joseph out of the Grünwald Sports School in Munich where the team had been staying, beat him, and held him over night at the Sheraton Hotel and flew him back to Haiti. The terrified Jean-Joseph had made several phone calls to a sympathetic hostess who passed on the information to the designated team attaché, Kurt Renner. The World Cup organizing committee, furious at Renner for telling the story to the media, removed him from his post.

Jean-Joseph's World Cup experience was not the end of his international career. Jean-Joseph played in seven 1978 World Cup qualifiers and one 1982 World Cup qualifier, a 1–0 win over Netherlands Antilles on 12 September 1980 in Port-au-Prince.{{cite web | url =https://static.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=51495/index.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190408030226/https://static.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people%3D51495/index.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =8 April 2019 | title = Ernst JEAN-JOSEPH | publisher = fifa.com | accessdate = 11 April 2020}}

Jean-Joseph later became manager of Violette A.C.{{cite web|title=La victories campaign concaccafienne du Violette 84|url=https://lenouvelliste.com/article/110305/la-victorieuse-campagne-concaccafienne-du-violette-84|publisher=www.lenouvelliste.com|accessdate=11 April 2020|author=Raymond Jean-Louis|date=29 October 2012}}