{{short description|France international rugby league player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox rugby league biography | image = | name = Marcel Bescos | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1937|6|28}} | birth_place = Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Basses-Pyrénées, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2013|7|17|1937|6|28}} | death_place = Castres, France | height = {{convert|5|ft|11|in|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|102|kg|stlb|abbr=on}} | position = {{rlp|PR}} | club1 = Albi | year1start = 19?? | year1end = 63 | club2 = Limoux | year2start = 1963 | year2end = 66 | teamA = France | yearAstart = 1959 | yearAend = 66 | appearancesA = 20 | triesA = 1 | goalsA = 0 | fieldgoalsA = 0 | pointsA = 3 | source = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Marcel Bescos - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project |url=https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/marcel-bescos/summary.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=www.rugbyleagueproject.org}}</ref><ref>{{Rugby league records |id=9342 |title=Marcel Bescos |access-date=27 March 2025}}</ref> }}
'''Marcel Bescos''' (Oloron-Sainte-Marie, 28 June 1937- Castres, 17 July 2013) is a former French rugby league player who played as prop. He was French Champion with Albi in 1962, as well as captain of the French national team.
==Career== Having an impressive physique, 102 kg, Marcel Bescos essentially played most of his career for Albi before joining Limoux at the end of his career. He formed an impressive first row alongside André Vadon and Honoré Conti, he became French Champion for Albi in 1962.<ref name=ladepeche>{{Cite web |title=Albi. Le champion Marcel Bescos n'est plus |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/07/19/1674136-albi-le-champion-marcel-bescos-n-est-plus.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029030352/https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/07/19/1674136-albi-le-champion-marcel-bescos-n-est-plus.html |archive-date=29 October 2013}}</ref> When playing for France, he also made great sporting performances. When he became captain of the national team, he was part of the French squad which put Australia in check in January 1960 for a match which ended on a 8–8 tie, after the match, Johnny Raper and Reg Gasnier admitted that they never met such a strong, fast and technical prop.<ref name=ladepeche/> With Bescos, the French team won against Great Britain six times.<ref name=ladepeche/> After his sporting career, he became an antiquarian and a salesman at Établissements Mauriès.<ref name=ladepeche/> He died of pulmonary embolism on 17 July 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Girette |first=Herve |date=2012-12-15 |title=Décès de l'ancien capitaine tricolore Marcel Bescos, obsèques lundi à Albi |url=http://www.sportchoc.tv/sport/breve/xiii-de-france/5781-d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-de-lancien-capitaine-tricolore-marcel-bescos-obs%C3%A8ques-lundi-%C3%A0 |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Sportchoc.tv |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223012/http://www.sportchoc.tv/sport/breve/xiii-de-france/5781-d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-de-lancien-capitaine-tricolore-marcel-bescos-obs%C3%A8ques-lundi-%C3%A0 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== Outside his playing career, he worked as a fishmonger.<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=The Rugby League News |volume=41 |issue=12 |date=11 June 1960 |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-610045131 |title=Who's who for France |page=13 |access-date=25 March 2025 |via=Trove |language=en}}</ref>
==Honours== *French Rugby League Championship **Winner in 1962 (Albi) **Runner-up in 1960 (Albi)
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/marcel-bescos/summary.html Marcel Bescos profile] at rugbyleagueproject.org
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