Par Mythsouka Jean-Philippe<\/p>\n
Dans l\u2019histoire de la s\u00e9lection ha\u00eftienne, certains exploits sont si rares qu\u2019ils fr\u00f4lent la l\u00e9gende. Des records qui r\u00e9sistent au temps, d\u00e9fiant g\u00e9n\u00e9ration apr\u00e8s g\u00e9n\u00e9ration. L\u2019un d\u2019eux, \u00e9tonnant mais bien r\u00e9el, soul\u00e8ve encore l\u2019\u00e9tonnement : qui est le plus jeune entra\u00eeneur \u00e0 avoir dirig\u00e9 la s\u00e9lection nationale ha\u00eftienne ? La r\u00e9ponse nous replonge pr\u00e8s d\u2019un si\u00e8cle en arri\u00e8re, \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 le onze national posait \u00e0 peine ses premi\u00e8res bases. C\u2019est un record d\u2019une telle pr\u00e9cocit\u00e9 qu\u2019il para\u00eet presque impossible \u00e0 battre aujourd\u2019hui.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n L\u2019homme en question, Edouard Baker, est n\u00e9 le 25 ao\u00fbt 1911 \u00e0 Port-au-Prince, dans une famille aux racines multiples. Son p\u00e8re, Cleveland Th\u00e9odore Baker, \u00e9tait missionnaire am\u00e9ricain, et sa m\u00e8re, C\u00e9line Am\u00e9lie Marie-Rose Sarthou, ha\u00eftienne. \u00c9l\u00e8ve de l\u2019Institution Saint Louis de Gonzague, il poursuivit ses \u00e9tudes universitaires en agronomie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Gembloux en Belgique. Sportif accompli, il pratiquait plusieurs disciplines mais s\u2019illustra particuli\u00e8rement en football, \u00e9voluant au Royal FC de Spy.<\/p>\n \u00c0 son retour en Ha\u00efti, il rejoignit le Racing Club Ha\u00eftien o\u00f9 il devint non seulement joueur, mais aussi entra\u00eeneur-joueur, un r\u00f4le novateur pour l\u2019\u00e9poque. Visionnaire et rigoureux, il fut l\u2019un des pionniers du coaching en Ha\u00efti. Et c\u2019est \u00e0 seulement 22 ans, en 1934, qu\u2019il fut appel\u00e9 \u00e0 diriger les Grenadiers lors des \u00e9liminatoires de la Coupe du monde. Ce fait historique fait de lui, encore aujourd\u2019hui, le plus jeune s\u00e9lectionneur de l\u2019histoire de l\u2019\u00e9quipe nationale ha\u00eftienne.<\/p>\n En parall\u00e8le de sa vie sportive, Edouard Baker \u00e9tait aussi enracin\u00e9 dans l\u2019histoire sociale du pays. Il \u00e9pousa Louise Charlotte Thomasset-Barranco, descendante de Charles Thomasset, l\u2019ing\u00e9nieur ayant construit le pont Hippolyte au Cap-Ha\u00eftien. Il fut \u00e9galement le p\u00e8re de Charles Henri Baker, homme d\u2019affaires et candidat \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence d\u2019Ha\u00efti en 2006 et 2011.<\/p>\n D\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 28 d\u00e9cembre 1981, Edouard Baker reste dans la m\u00e9moire du football ha\u00eftien comme un pr\u00e9curseur. Son record de jeunesse, \u00e9tabli \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 tr\u00e8s peu auraient os\u00e9 confier une \u00e9quipe nationale \u00e0 un si jeune homme, semble aujourd\u2019hui in\u00e9galable. Il symbolise l\u2019esprit d\u2019audace et d\u2019engagement d\u2019un temps o\u00f9 tout \u00e9tait \u00e0 construire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Par Mythsouka Jean-Philippe Dans l\u2019histoire de la s\u00e9lection ha\u00eftienne, certains exploits sont si rares qu\u2019ils fr\u00f4lent la l\u00e9gende. Des records qui r\u00e9sistent au temps, d\u00e9fiant g\u00e9n\u00e9ration apr\u00e8s g\u00e9n\u00e9ration. L\u2019un d\u2019eux, \u00e9tonnant mais bien r\u00e9el, soul\u00e8ve encore l\u2019\u00e9tonnement : qui est le plus jeune entra\u00eeneur \u00e0 avoir dirig\u00e9 la s\u00e9lection nationale ha\u00eftienne ? La r\u00e9ponse nous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-ans-de-lequipe-nationale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Blue-Minimalist-Breaking-News-YouTube-Thumbnail_20250701_114808_0000.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pecwrA-46x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportpassioninfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}