Roger Couderc
Roger Couderc , born on July 12th 1918 with Souillac (Batch) where his/her father was hotel, and deceased on February 25th 1984 with Paris, was a French sports correspondent, specialist in the Rugby to XV. It is buried with Mauvezin in the Gers, cemetery road of Auch.
Starting from 1968, it formed with Pierre Albaladejo a tandem of commentators (a journalist and a consultant, a first), first of all with the radio on Europe 1, then on television on Antenne 2 starting from 1975.
Following the events of May 1968 in France, it belonged to the cart of the sports correspondents fired by ORTF, as well as Raymond Marcillac, Robert Chapatte or Thierry Roland. It reinstated the structure, as well as the two last cities, on Antenne 2 to belong to the team of the sporting weekly magazine Stade 2 in 1975. This emission celebrates today its thirty years of existence, always on the second channel, of France 2 from now on.
Via its enthusiastic and ignited comments, sometimes chauvinistic but always good child, it largely contributed to popularize Rugby in France. Its " Go the petits" (which will be transformed, for the good cause, in Allée Small the indicating the driving corridor of the cloakrooms to the lawn of the Park of the Princes) to encourage the XV of France, its song of the Marseillaise (according to the legend that the recording televised of the time contradicts during a French test against All Blacks in 1979) remained famous.
Its distributed blazing at the time of the great Parisian matches of wrestling televised during the years 1960 also remained in all the memories.
It took its retirement in 1983, Pierre Salviac succeeding to him the comments on Antenne 2.
To his international retreat, the captain of the team of France Jean-Pierre Rives gave his last shirt to him. This one was covered with blood.
He died a few months only after his retirement.
Very many stages and other sports complexes bear its name to France today.
In order to thank it for all that it did having allowed a greater radiation of Rugby, a stamp (the first of a whole collection related to the World cup of Rugby) with its effigy will be proposed soon in all the post offices.
Actually, it is its consulting " Bala" who the room by saying that if it lets it make, Couderc will sing the Marseillaise to celebrate the French victory which takes shape.
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