Victor Wégria

Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker.^[1]

Key Information

Wégria for RFC Liège
Personal information
Full name	Victor Lucien Wégria
Date of birth	(1936-11-04)4 November 1936
Place of birth	Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium
Date of death	5 June 2008(2008-06-05) (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
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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]

1. ^ ^{a b} Victor Wégria at WorldFootball.net
2. ^ http://standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=523 ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "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.
4. ^ "Standard de Liège | Palmares". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
5. ^ Mast, Toon (23 October 2012). "Voormalig topschutter en Rode Duivel Jozef Mannaerts overleden" (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
6. ^ "RFC LIÈGE Histoire". fcliege.be (in French). 5 January 2024.

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