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François Remetter (8 August 1928 – 30 September 2022) was a French
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...
. He was the last surviving member of the French
1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the 5th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June ...
squad.


International career

Remetter played for
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
at the
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finals of
1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
and
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
.


References and notes


External links

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Player bio at the official web site of the French Football Federation

Profile at racingstub.com


1928 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Strasbourg French people of German descent French men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers France men's international footballers Ligue 1 players RC Strasbourg Alsace players FC Metz players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players Limoges Football players AS Pierrots Vauban Strasbourg players 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1958 FIFA World Cup players 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-footy-goalkeeper-stub