Ray Batchelor

Ray Batchelor
Personal information
Full name Raymond Harold Walter Batchelor
Date of birth 1924
Date of death 2006 (aged 81–82)
Managerial career
Years Team
1961 Kenya
1963 Nakuru AllStars
1967–1971 Malawi
1970s Copper Stars

Raymond Harold Walter Batchelor (1924–2006), often misspelt Bachelor, was an English athletics and football coach and administrator who was active in Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. He is known for being the first ever manager of the Kenya national football team.

Early life

Raymond Harold Walter Batchelor was born in 1924[1] and registered in the September–December quarter of the GRO indexes in West Ham.[2]

Over the years, his name was often misspelt Bachelor in the media.[3][4][5]

Career

Kenya

Batchelor coached both athletics and football in Kenya[6] and other African countries.

Kenyan athletics

During the 1950s[7] Batchelor founded the Achilles Athletics Club in Mombasa, Kenya, where many Goan athletes trained, including sprinter Seraphino Antao, Albert Castanha, Joe Faria, Pascoal Antao, Alcino Rodrigues, Jack Fernandes, Laura Ramos, Phila Fernandes, Juanita Noronha, Meldrita Viegas, Alfred Vienna, and Bruno D'Souza.[1]

Batchelor is especially known in Kenya and among Goans for his role in coaching Antao to the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia,[1] to his win when he won 100 and 220 yards gold medals, making him the first Kenyan athlete to win a gold medal at an international level.[8]

When Kenya was still a British colony, Batchelor was employed as a sports officer by the Coast Province administration.[5]

Kenyan football

In 1961[5] he was appointed the first ever manager of the Kenya national football team.[3] He was their manager when they played at the Uganda Independence Tournament in 1962, after Kenya was invited to replace Egypt in the competition.[9] Peter Oronge (a former Kenyan international player) was appointed coach in 1963, not longer after Kenyan independence was declared.[10]

On Saturday 11 December 1965, as part of the Jamhuri Day celebrations marking Kenyan independence, Batchelor was called in as an emergency coach after the team had just been inexplicably deserted by Oronge just a few hours before the game. The team suffered a 13–2 loss to Ghana's Black Stars at the game, which was attended by president Jomo Kenyatta.[11][12][5] At the time, Batchelor was the Rift Valley Province sports officer, and also coaching the Nakuru AllStars. After being contacted by the Kenyan Football Association, Batchelor was able to spend just four hours with the team before kickoff, and the Ghanaians were a very strong team with a dangerous striker in the form of Ben Acheampong. Two days later, after Batchelor had reorganised the team, the Kenyans and Ghanaians drew in a friendly match.[11]

He later managed Kenyan club side Nakuru AllStars, first ever winners of the Kenyan Premier League.[4] in 1964.[5]

Malawi

From 11 November 1967 to 10 October 1971, Batchelor coached the Malawi national football team.[13][14]

In 1968,[15] he was Director of Department of Sports in Malawi.[16] In this role, he announced that Malawi had applied to participate in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, most African nations threatening to boycott the games because of South Africa's participation, owing to the apartheid regime.[15]

Rhodesia/Zimbabwe

In the 1970s, Batchelor acted as an athletics coach in the copper mining town of Mangula (now Mhangura) in then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He coached, among others, sprinter Artwell Mandaza.[17][18]

He was also football coach for the "Copper Stars", the local Mangula football team,[19] and coached Black Aces FC star Byron Manuel at some point.[20]

Other activities and personal life

Batchelor acted as a presiding officer in the Mombasa polling booths in elections held by the British in 1956.[21]

Batchelor was described in a 2012 Daily Nation article as "one of those White people who believed in the African cause and had thrown his lot in with black Kenyans full-bloodedly", and "always wore a cheerful smile".[11]

Death

Batchelor died in 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Fernandes, Cyprian (23 October 2018). "Goan Voice Newsletter: Tuesday 23 Oct. 2018: Ray Batchelor: The Sultan of sport (22 Oct.)". The Goan Voice. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. ^ GRO Index, September 1924
  3. ^ a b "Kenya National Team Coaches". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Kenya Football in the 60s and 70s". KenyaPage.net. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e Mballa, Tony (22 October 2020). "When will Kenya get it right in coaches' revolving door". The Star. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  6. ^ "22. Joe Gonsalves". issuu. 30 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  7. ^ Fernandes, Cyprian (30 January 2021). "3. Seraphino Antao". Issuu. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Supplement on Seraphino Antao". Goan Voice UK. 25 January 2003. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Uganda Independence Tournament 1962". RSSSF. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Profiles of Kenya Harambee stars coaches". Kenya Football. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  11. ^ a b c Gachuhi, Roy (21 December 2012). "Remembering the football debacle of 1965 when Ghana thumped Kenya". The Nation. Retrieved 3 January 2024. Friday, December 21, 2012 — updated on July 04, 2020
  12. ^ Mbati, John (1 June 2022). "Story of Stars Coach With Worst Performance in History". Team Kenya. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  13. ^ Antoine, M. (2022). A History of Nyasaland and Malawi Football: Volume 1 1935 to 1969. AuthorHouse UK. p. 1-PA2. ISBN 978-1-6655-9839-2. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  14. ^ "Throw Back Thursday with Mario Malawi Coaches Records... Compiled by Louis Alec Mario Antoine". Facebook. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  15. ^ a b "Malawi send in application" (microfiche). Eastern Sun. 21 April 1968. Retrieved 4 January 2024 – via National Library Board, Singapore.
  16. ^ Chanthunya, Alex (10 September 2020). "The Day My Father Challenged King Kong Marshal Jetu – Father's Day Message". The Maravi Post. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Mandaza bayethe! Nation says goodbye to athletics legend". The Sunday News. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  18. ^ "Artwell Mandaza". Rhodesian Sport Profiles. 27 February 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  19. ^ "It's back to the good old days... PSL's big three – Dynamos, highlanders and CAPS United – losing ground". The Herald. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  20. ^ "Apache Warrior…Legendary star recalls his days on our fields". The Herald. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  21. ^ "Gazette Notice No 2856" (PDF). The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. LVIII (51). Nairobi: Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya: 1046, 1049, 1050, 1052. 20 September 1956.

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