Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker.[1]
 Wégria for RFC Liège | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Victor Lucien Wégria | ||
| Date of birth | 4 November 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium | ||
| Date of death | 5 June 2008 (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Liège, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1965 | RFC Liège | 245 | (145) |
| 1965–1966 | Standard Liège | 14 | (7) |
| 1966–1970 | Racing Club Jette | 40 | (11) |
| 1970–1973 | Racing Jet Brussels | ||
| Total | 299 | (162) | |
| International career | |||
| 1957–1961 | Belgium | 5 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1971–1975 | RFC Liège | ||
| 1983 | RFC Liège | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
He played mostly for RFC Liège, and later joined Standard Liège.[2] Wégria finished four times top scorer of the Jupiler League (in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963). Only Erwin Vandenbergh managed to beat this record (he was six times top scorer of this competition).
Victor Wégria was capped five times by the Belgium national team. He died on 6 June 2008, aged 71.[3]
Honours
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editStandard Liège
- Belgian Cup winners: 1965-66[4]
Individual
editManager
editRFC Liège
edit- Belgian League Cup runners-up: 1973[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Victor Wégria at WorldFootball.net
- ^ http://standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=523 [dead link]
- ^ "Viervoudig topschutter Wegria is overleden" [Four times topscorer Wégria is dead]. Sporza (in Dutch). 6 June 2008. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Standard de Liège | Palmares". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ Mast, Toon (23 October 2012). "Voormalig topschutter en Rode Duivel Jozef Mannaerts overleden" (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ^ "RFC LIÈGE Histoire". fcliege.be (in French). 5 January 2024.
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