René Bonnet (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1880 | ||
| Place of birth | France | ||
| Date of death | Unknown | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1913–1914 | AS Française | ||
| International career | |||
| 1913 | Northern France | +1 | (0) |
| 1914 | France | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
René Bonnet was a French footballer who played as a defender for AS Française and the French national team in 1913–14.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
[edit]Very little is known about his life; Bonnet was playing football for AS Française in 1913, when the USFSA selected him to play for the so-called Lions des Flandres, a regional scratch team representing Northern France, in a friendly match against the English Wanderers on 1 November; he scored an own goal in an eventual 1–4 loss.[5]
Three months later, on 8 February 1914, Bonnet earned his first (and only) international cap for France in an away friendly against Luxembourg, playing the full 90 minutes both as a defender and as the captain, and failing at both jobs miserably, as he conceded five goals in a humiliating 5–4 loss.[2][3][6] His date of birth is unknown, but the most frequently cited year is 1880,[1][3][7] which means that he would have been 33 or 34 years old during his only international match, which seems quite improbable given that 30-year-old players were extremely rare in the French team before the First World War.[7] If true, he was the first 30-year-old player in the history of the Bleus, and held the record for the oldest player in the French national team for over 14 years until May 1928, when Juste Brouzes played his last match for France at the age of 34 years and 132 days.[7]
Honours
[edit]- USFSA Paris Championship:
- Champions (1): 1913–14
References
[edit]- ^ a b "René Bonnet". www.worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b "René Bonnet, international footballer". eu-football.info. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b c "René Bonnet". www.fff.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "René Bonnet (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "1913–14 Saison de football" [1913–14 football season] (PDF). footnostalgie.free.fr (in French). p. 42. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Le Luxembourg bat la France" [Luxembourg beats France]. gallica.bnf.fr (in French). L'Auto. 9 February 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b c "Chronologie des vétérans de l'équipe de France" [Chronology of the veterans of the French team]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 17 July 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2025.