Jean Batmale

Jean Batmale (born September 18, 1895 in Pau , † June 3, 1973 in Rennes ) was a French football player and coach .

Club career

Midfielder Batmale began playing football in the greater Paris area, where he initially wore the FEC Levallois jersey . In 1919 he moved to the Club Français Paris and in 1920 the next change took place when he was accepted into the squad of the USA Clichy . In 1921 he played one more time for Club Français before moving to city rivals Red Star Club that same year . So he belonged to the club that won the national cup final in 1922 , but he was not on the field at the final, which means that he does not benefit from direct participation in the title. In November 1922 it was with the Stade Rennes UC the final opponent of the Parisians who signed Batmale for his team. For the then 27-year-old, this meant saying goodbye to the capital region, where the entire first phase of his career had taken place.

In Rennes he was one of the top performers of a team that only narrowly failed in 1923 when it made it to the cup final again. In 1925 he left the club and then belonged to the team of Olympique Alès . Then it was with the OGC Nice another well-known club, for which he competed before he gave up playing football.

National team

Batmale was 24 years old when he made his debut for the French national team on April 5, 1920 in a 5-0 defeat by the English amateur national team . A little later he was appointed to the squad for the Olympic football tournament in 1920 and played his first game on the Olympic turf on August 29 in a 3-1 win against Italy. In 1924 he ran again at the Olympics, but could not win a medal both times. On June 4, 1924, he played his last international match in a 1-0 draw against Hungary. In total, he had come to France on six missions without a goal.

Coaching career

In 1932 he took over Olympique Alès, a club that was one of the founding members of the newly created national first division Division 1 in the same year . However, the team rose in 1933 from bottom of the table and he ended his coaching at this time. In 1936 it was the Stade Rennes UC, another club for which he had already accrued as a player, who made him the coach. There he had to accept relegation after his first season in Alès, but remained in office after relegation in 1937. In 1941 he moved to the city rivals Tour d'Auvergne Rennes , where he performed the same function.

In 1942 he returned to the Stade Rennes UC. During the 1943/44 season he coached the ÉF Rennes-Bretagne , which in this phase of the Second World War , which is why regular play had been replaced by an unofficial championship anyway, served as a replacement for the club team that was not allowed in this season. Then he was back at the Stade until he went to the northern French first division club CO Roubaix-Tourcoing in 1945 , where he saw the resumption of regular game operations in the same year. In 1946 he got a job at the league rivals FC Toulouse , but only kept it for a few months and found his next employer in October 1946 in the amateur club US Nœux-les-Mines . In 1948 he was employed by the second division club AS Monaco , which meant his return to the professional field. When his coaching time there came to an end in 1950, his work in professional football ended. In the early 1950s he trained again the Tour d'Auvergne Rennes and the Cadets de Bretagne , which was another amateur club from Rennes. In January 1955 he was brought back to the Stade Rennes, where he worked as a coach for the second team and as a youth coach until 1963. This was followed by a job as a sports director at the lower-class club Drapeau de Fougères and then retired from football. He retired in Rennes, where he died in 1973 at the age of 77.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jean Batmale - Fiche et statistiques , stade-rennais-online.com
2. ↑ Joueur - Jean BATMALE , fff.fr