Paul Van Himst
Belgian football manager and former player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paul Guillaume van Himst (born 2 October 1943) is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht.[2] Regarded as Anderlecht's ultimate club icon, Van Himst holds the record of four Belgian Golden Shoe awards and was named best "Belgian footballer of the twentieth century".[3]
In this article, the surname is van Himst, not Himst.
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Full name | Paul Guillaume Van Himst[1] | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1943-10-02) 2 October 1943 (age 80) | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1951–1959 | Anderlecht | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1959–1975 | Anderlecht | 456 | (234) | |||||||||||
1975–1976 | Molenbeek | 21 | (1) | |||||||||||
1976–1977 | Eendracht Aalst | |||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1960–1974 | Belgium | 81 | (30) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1983–1986 | Anderlecht | |||||||||||||
1987–1988 | Molenbeek | |||||||||||||
1991–1996 | Belgium | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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