Antoine Rouches

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 career Born on 21 May 1893 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, 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. 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.

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. 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.

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, in which he failed to score past Pierre Chayriguès in an eventual 2–1 loss to his former club Red Star.

Death Rouchès died in Montreuil on 23 February 1974, at the age of 80.

Honours Olympique de Pantin Coupe de France: Runner-up: 1920–21 Ligue de Paris Champions (1): 1921 Runner-up (1): 1922