Raymond Wattine

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.

Playing career Born in Roncq on 23 August 1895, Wattine played at RC Roubaix between 1920 and 1923, 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, doing so with 38 points, two more than runner-up Olympique Lillois. All of the aforementioned players, including Wattine, spent their entire careers at Roubaix.

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. He played the entire match, alongside fellow club teammates Isbecque and Dubly, the latter being the team's captain. 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.

Later life and death One of his cousins, , an officer who died during World War I, now has a statue in his honor in Roubaix in the Barbieux park. 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.

Honours RC Roubaix DH Northern Football League: Champions (1): 1922–23