Antoine Rouchès
Antoine Rouchès (21 May 1893 – 23 February 1974) was a French footballer who played as a forward for Olympique de Pantin and the France national team in the early 1920s. Playing careerBorn on 21 May 1893 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris,[1] Rouchès began his football career at his hometown club CA Vitry, where he quickly stood out from the rest, thus being selected to play for a Paris selection (LFA) in a friendly against a London XI.[2] He then joined Red Star; on 4 January 1914, he played for Paris in a friendly against the so-called Lions des Flandres, a regional scratch team representing Northern France.[3] Once the First World War ended, Rouchès took part in the 1919 Inter-Allied Games in Paris, a large sports competition organized in celebration of the Allied victory in the War, being listed as a member of the football team, whose squad was formed by soldiers who had participated in the War.[4] Two years later, on 6 March 1921, the 27-year-old Rouchès earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly match against Belgium at Forest, which ended in a 3–1 loss.[1] During the match, he hit the post, and later the referee disallowed a goal from Henri Bard on the pretext that Rouchès was offside, even though he had fallen and thus "could not hinder the opposing defenders either directly or indirectly".[5] Together with Émile Fiévet, Louis Darques, and Jules Dewaquez, he was a member of the great Pantin team of the early 1920s, which won the Ligue de Paris in 1921, and reached the 1921 Coupe de France final,[6] in which he failed to score past Pierre Chayriguès in an eventual 2–1 loss to his former club Red Star.[7][8] DeathRouchès died in Montreuil on 23 February 1974, at the age of 80.[1][9] Honours
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