Roger Marche

Roger Marche
	Marche with France in 1949
Personal information
Full name	Roger Gaston Louis Marche
Date of birth	5 March 1924
Place of birth	Villers-Semeuse, France
Date of death	1 November 1997 (aged 73)
Place of death	Charleville-Mézières, France
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Left back
Youth career
	ASC Mohon
Senior career*
National team
Representing France
FIFA World Cup
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Roger Gaston Louis Marche (5 March 1924 – 1 November 1997) was a French footballer who played as a defender. He was part of the French national team during the 1954 and 1958 World Cup tournaments. He was nicknamed Le Sanglier des Ardennes ("the Boar of the Ardenne") for the region from which he came.

Career

Marche, born in Villers-Semeuse, Ardennes, is one of the players with the most appearances in the French top division, having played 542 matches for the clubs Stade Reims and RC Paris.

He was a member of the French national team from 1947 to 1959, and became the most-capped player ever for France with 63 international matches played, surpassing Étienne Mattler's previous record of 46 caps set in 1940. Marche held the record until 1983, when the also defender Marius Trésor established a new mark with his 64th cap. Several players since have surpassed that cap total.

Marche died in 1997 in Charleville-Mézières.

Honours

Reims

Division 1: 1948–49, 1952–53; runner-up: 1946–47, 1953–54
Coupe de France: 1949–50
Trophée des Champions: 1949
Latin Cup: 1953

France

FIFA World Cup third place: 1958

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Fichier des décès – années 1990 à 1999" [Death file – years 1990 to 1999] (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

External links

Roger Marche at the French Football Federation (in French). Archived at webarchive.org.
Illustrated profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-25)
List of international appearances

[INSEE-1] "Fichier des décès – années 1990 à 1999" [Death file – years 1990 to 1999] (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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