Raymond Wattine
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 Wattine (on one knee, in the center) in 1923[1] | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Jules Joseph Wattine | ||
| Date of birth | 23 August 1895 | ||
| Place of birth | Roncq, France | ||
| Date of death | 7 May 1937 (aged 41) | ||
| Place of death | Arbonne, France | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1920–1923 | RC Roubaix | ||
| International career | |||
| 1923 | France | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Raymond Jules Joseph Wattine (23 August 1895 – 7 May 1937) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for RC Roubaix and the French national team in the early 1920s.
Born in Roncq on 23 August 1895, Wattine played at RC Roubaix between 1920 and 1923,[2] and together with Georges Verriest, Gérard Isbecque, and Raymond Dubly, he helped Roubaix return to its pre-war glory by winning the Division d'Honneur of the 1922–23 Northern Football League,[3] doing so with 38 points, two more than runner-up Olympique Lillois.[4] All of the aforementioned players, including Wattine, spent their entire careers at Roubaix.[5]
On 25 February 1923, the 27-year-old Wattine earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly match against Belgium at Forest, which ended in a 4–1 loss.[6][7][8] He played the entire match, alongside fellow club teammates Isbecque and Dubly, the latter being the team's captain.[9] In doing so, Wattine and Isbecque became only the fifth and sixth RC Roubaix players to represent the French national team, after Émile Sartorius, Maurice Vandendriessche, Dubly, and Emile Dusart.[10]
Later life and death
One of his cousins, Louis-Marie Bossut, an officer who died during World War I, now has a statue in his honor in Roubaix in the Barbieux park.[11] The day before his death, Bossut spoke of a command pennant, blessed at the Sacré Cœur, which was later present on the tanks of his brother Pierre Bossut, and then of Lieutenant Moello, whose deputy chief was Wattine.[11]
He was also a renowned industrialist and the honorary president of RC Roubaix. Wattine died in Arbonne on 7 May 1937, at the age of 41.[6]