Jean Raynal
{{short description|French sports journalist}}
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{{Infobox presenter
| name = Jean Raynal
| image = JR commentaire BAsket à Berck (1).jpg
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| caption = Jean Raynal commentating in 1970
| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|8|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Massiac, Cantal, France
| death_date = January 2015 (aged 85)
| death_place =
| show = Téléfoot
| network = {{flatlist|* Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
- TF1}}
| country = France
}}
Jean Raynal (18 August 1929 – January 2015) was a French sports journalist, who worked for Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française and TF1. He commentated on football, rugby, basketball, and the Olympic Games. He was nicknamed Monsieur Basket (Mr Basketball).
Personal life
Raynal was born in Massiac, Cantal, France.{{cite news| url= https://www.lequipe.fr/Medias/Actualites/Disparition-de-jean-raynal/527668| title= Disparition de Jean Raynal| language=fr| work=L'Équipe| date=12 January 2015| accessdate=31 May 2020}} He studied at the Centre de formation des journalistes in Paris.
Career
Raynal began his work as a radio presenter in 1957.{{cite news| url= https://basket-retro.com/2015/01/15/jean-raynal-le-monsieur-basket-de-la-television-nous-a-quitte/| title= Jean Raynal, le « Monsieur Basket » de la télévision nous a quitté| language=fr| work=Basket Retro| date=15 January 2015| accessdate=31 May 2020}} In 1968, Raynal became a television presenter on Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and was one of the first five members of the organisation's committee on objective journalism.{{cite news| url= https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1968/05/28/trois-journalistes-de-france-inter-demissionnent-de-l-o-r-t-f_2502262_1819218.html| title= TROIS JOURNALISTES DE FRANCE-INTER DÉMISSIONNENT DE L'O.R.T.F.| language=fr| work=Le Monde| date=28 May 1968| accessdate=31 May 2020}} From 1975 to 1988, Raynal worked for TF1.
Raynal commentated at five FIFA World Cups; he commentated at the 1978 FIFA World Cup alongside Pierre Cangioni. Between 1983 and 1984, Raynal presented one season of TF1's football programme Téléfoot.{{cite web| url= http://www.eurosport.fr/football/telefoot/2004-2005/historique-de-l-emission_sto565863/story.shtml| archive-url= http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20210331035444/http://www.eurosport.fr/football/telefoot/2004-2005/historique-de-l-emission_sto565863/story.shtml| url-status= dead| archive-date= 2021-03-31| title=Tout sur l'histoire de Téléfoot ...| language=fr| publisher=Eurosport| date=5 September 2003| accessdate=19 April 2020}}{{cite news| url= https://www.telestar.fr/sport/telefoot-tf1-vous-souvenez-vous-de-tous-les-presentateurs-de-l-emission-sportive-photos-249336| title=Téléfoot, TF1 : vous souvenez-vous de tous les présentateurs de l'émission sportive?| last=Murce| first=Vince|language=fr| work={{ill|Télé Star|fr}}| date=20 November 2016| accessdate=19 April 2020}} Aside from football, Raynal covered basketball in the 1970s and 1980s. Raynal was nicknamed "Monsieur Basket" (Mr Basketball), and in 1980, he wrote the book La Fabuleuse histoire du basket (The fabulous history of basketball).{{cite book| url= https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12043344f| title= Raynal, Jean|language=fr| publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France| accessdate=31 May 2020}} Raynal also covered 26 French Open tennis championships, and six Olympic Games. He commentated with Raoul Barrière at the 1978–79 French Rugby Union Championship final, where Narbonne beat Stade Bagnérais.{{cite news| url= https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/Un-jour-une-finale-1979-narbonne-met-le-feu-au-parc/1135834| title= Un jour – une finale : 1979, Narbonne met le feu au Parc| language=fr| work=L'Équipe| date=27 May 2010| accessdate=31 May 2020}} Fellow sports journalist Didier Roustan said that Raynal was his inspiration.{{cite web| url= http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/mobile/article-didier-roustan-le-football-c-est-une-emotion-6475| title= DIDIER ROUSTAN : « LE FOOTBALL, C'EST UNE ÉMOTION »| language=fr| publisher=Les Cahiers de Football| date=15 November 2016| accessdate=31 May 2020}}
Works
- Raynal, Jean, Le volley-ball (Volleyball), 1977{{cite web| url= https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-161137153/| title= Raynal, Jean| publisher=WorldCat| accessdate=31 May 2020}}
- Raynal, Jean, La Fabuleuse histoire du basket (The fabulous history of basketball), 1980
Death
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Category:French sports journalists
Category:Sportspeople from Cantal
Category:French television presenters
Category:Association football commentators