Alfred Roques (17 February 1925 - 7 November 2004) was a

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player who played at

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for the

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Early life and career

Alfred Roques was born on February 17, 1925, in

Cazes-Mondenard Cazes-Mondenard (; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Geography The Barguelonne flows southwestward through the northern part of the commune. See also *Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne ...

, France. Roques earned his first cap for the

on March 9, 1958. He made a total of 30 official appearances for the French national team between 1958 and 1963. Roques was part of the French national team that won the

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1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

and

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

Death

Roques died at the age of 79 in

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, France, on November 7, 2004.

References

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