Jocelyne Ratignier

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Jocelyne Ratignier (born July 4, 1954 in Belleville-sur-Saône , since 2019 part of the small town of Belleville-en-Beaujolais ) is a former French football player . She is the world's first goalscorer in an official FIFA- recognized international match in the history of women's football .

Club career

Jocelyne Ratignier grew up in a football-loving winemaker family where she regularly played football with her brothers from an early age . There were no clubs in this region in which one could pursue this sport as a girl before the late 1960s . That only changed when the ex- international Jean Belver at a club in the capital of the department, Mâcon, campaigned for the creation of women's football teams in addition to training male youth and then also trained ratigniers. Belver turned her into a midfielder in the 4-2-4 system that was often practiced at the time , who, according to her own statements, occasionally scored a goal, but preferred to get balls in her own penalty area and then build an attack from her own team: "I loved the collective game [...] and I was always delighted to provide a good template."

Jocelyne Ratignier, who was only 1.50 meters tall, was only active in club sport until 1974, mainly for FC Mâcon, from whose women's department the Racing Club Flacé-Mâcon later emerged. In addition, she briefly wore the dress of SC Caluire Saint-Clair , of Stade Reims (during her professional training in Amiens ) and of Lazio Rome , with whose women she appeared as a "guest player" at a few tournaments - often abroad. When a national championship was played for the first time in France in the 1974/75 season , she had already fully concentrated on her profession as a sports teacher in school service, with football being the focus of her teaching practice. She worked there until 2017 and has been retired since then.

In the national team

Jocelyne Ratignier has two (official) A-internationals for France , both in 1971. Her three goals of her own - a hat trick in the 7th, 16th and 51st minute of the game - reached her on April 17, 1971 a game against the Netherlands in front of around 1,000 spectators in Hazebrouck ; Marie-Claire Harant scored the goal to make it 4-0 . Almost 50 years later, Ratignier only remembers one of her goals, a long-range shot; She doesn't remember which hit it was either.
This game was a qualifying match for the FIEFF World Cup in Mexico in 1971, which is still not recognized by FIFA . The match against the Netherlands, on the other hand, was defined by the World Football Association in the context of the 2011 World Cup as the first official match in women's football history (see the article “Women from the very beginning” under web links) ; the French federation FFF even needed a few more years before it included it in its statistics.

Ratignier's second and last game counted by the FFF was an away game for the Italians in November 1971, which ended 2-2. However, she also wore the national dress at various matches that have not yet counted as official. As early as September 1970, France's first women's national coach, Pierre Geoffroy, took the just 16-year-old into consideration in a home game against Italy - on the recommendation of Jean Belver, as Jocelyne Ratignier recalled. At the World Cup in Mexico (August / September 1971) she was in the starting line-up in all three games of the French against Denmark , Italy and England and thus had her share in France's fifth place at this tournament. At the time, the fact that she could take part in a - albeit unofficial - world championship at the age of 17 was a great gift. She later commented on the fact that it would take FIFA twenty years before it hosted a Women's World Cup by saying:

“I'm happy with the development [of women's football]. I just don't know how I think that this took so long. "

In May 1972, she made her last international appearance in a friendly against Switzerland in Basel .

literature

  • Claire Gaillard: La grande histoire des Bleues. In the coulisses de l'équipe de France féminine. Hachette, Paris 2019, ISBN 978-2-0170-4705-6

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gaillard, La grande histoire des Bleues, 2019, p. 19
  2. ↑ a b c Gaillard, La grande histoire des Bleues, 2019, p. 21
  3. ↑ a b c Gaillard, La grande histoire des Bleues, 2019, p. 20
  4. ↑ Article " Jocelyne Ratignier is the first goalscorer of the French women's national football team " from May 28, 2019 at lechorepublicain.fr (accessed on September 29, 2019)
  5. ↑ see the data sheet of this encounter at fff.fr
  6. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 109
  7. ↑ Course of the tournament and results at rsssf.com (accessed on September 29, 2019)
  8. ↑ Article " In the history of the Women's World Cup, truth and fiction mix " from June 25, 2019 on nytimes.com (accessed on September 29, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ratignier, Jocelyne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Belleville-sur-Saône