Vincent Sattler
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-06-06)6 June 1969
Place of birth Strasbourg, France
Date of death 22 December 1988(1988-12-22) (aged 19)
Place of death Dahlenheim, France[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
0000–1987 Strasbourg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1988 Strasbourg 36 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vincent Sattler (6 June 1969 – 22 December 1988) was a French professional footballer who played as a centre-back.[2] He played for Strasbourg before dying due to a car accident at the age of 19.[3]

Career

Sattler signed a professional contract with Strasbourg in June 1986. In the 1987–88 season, the club achieved promotion to the Division 1 by winning the Division 2. Sattler was then a great prospect of French football.[2] He would make a total of 40 appearances and score 6 goals for Strasbourg in his short-lived career.[4]

Personal life and death

On 22 December 1988, Sattler died in a car accident. He was driving on the road between the towns of Furdenheim and Ergersheim after a night spent with some of his Strasbourg teammates.[5] In the time period prior to his death, he was completing his military service at the Bataillon de Joinville.[6] After Sattler's death, the municipal stadium of Dahlenheim was named after him.[2]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[4]
Club Season League Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Strasbourg 1986–87 Division 2 1 0 0 0 1 0
1987–88 Division 2 14 1 4 1 18 2
1988–89 Division 1 21 4 0 0 21 4
Career total 36 5 4 1 40 6

Honours

Strasbourg

References

  1. ↑ "Vincent Sattler". MatchID (in French). Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Vincent Sattler". RacingStub (in French). 6 June 1969. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Il y a 30 ans : le drame Sattler" [30 years ago: the Sattler drama]. RacingStub (in French). 21 December 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 Vincent Sattler at FootballDatabase.eu
  5. ↑ "Certains soirs, même la défaite est dérisoir" [Some evenings, even defeat is ridiculous]. RacingStub (in French). 23 March 2007. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Le 22 décembre 1988, le jeune espoir du Racing-Club de Strasbourg, Vincent Sattler, se tuait au volant" [22 December 1988, the young hope of Racing-Club de Strasbourg, Vincent Sattler, killed himself at the wheel]. Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French). 23 December 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
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