Victor Wégria
Victor Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008[1]) was a Belgian association football striker.
| 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) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1965 | R.F.C. de Liège | 245 | (145) |
| 1965–1966 | Standard de Liège | 14 | (7) |
| 1966–1970 | Racing Club Jette | 40 | (11) |
| 1970–1973 | Racing Jet Brussels | ?? | (??) |
| Total | 299 | (162) | |
| National team | |||
| 1957–1961 | Belgium | 5 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1971–1975 | R.F.C. de Liège | ||
| 1983 | R.F.C. de Liège | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
He played mostly for RFC Liégeois, and later joined Standard de 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 6 times top scorer of this competition). He was capped five times by the Belgium national football team. He died on 6 June 2008, aged 71.[3]
References
- Vic Wégria Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- http://standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=523
- "Four times topscorer Wégria is dead" (in Dutch). Sporza. 6 June 2008. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
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