Victor "Vic" Nurenberg (22 November 1930 – 22 April 2010) was a

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professional

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. Nurenberg played in France for 13 seasons, representing four clubs. He also represented the

Luxembourg national football team The Luxembourg national football team (nicknamed the ''Red Lions''; lb, Lëtzebuergesch Foussballnationalequipe, french: Équipe du Luxembourg de football, german: Luxemburgische Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the national football team of Luxe ...

Club career

Born in

Niederkorn Niederkorn () is a town in the Communes of Luxembourg, commune of Differdange, in south-western Luxembourg, on the Chiers river (), from which it takes its name. As of March 31, 2020, the town has a population of 7,272. Niederkorn is home to FC P ...

, Nurenberg started his career at local team Progrès Niedercorn aged 16 while he was working at a local factory and moved abroad to play for 13 years in France with

OGC Nice Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice Côte d'Azur (), commonly referred to as OGC Nice or simply Nice, is a French professional football club based in Nice. The club was founded in 1904 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. ...

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Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...

and

SC Bastia Sporting Club Bastiais ( co, Sporting Club di Bastia, commonly referred to as SC Bastia or simply Bastia) is a Corsican association football club based in Bastia on the island of Corsica. The club plays in Ligue 2, the second tier of Football ...

. With Nice he won the French league title three times and the domestic cup twice. He scored in both cup final wins. His moment of fame came in February 1960 when he scored a

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for Nice in the UEFA Champions Cup quarter finals against

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, who would later lift the cup for a 5th successive time. He returned to Luxembourg in 1964 to become player/coach at Spora Luxembourg and won the domestic cup with them twice.

International career

Nurenberg made his debut for

in 1951 against Belgium B and went on to earn 16 caps, including non-official matches. He played in three

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matches and 2 games at the 1952 Olympic Games. He played his final international game in September 1964 against

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Personal life and death

After retiring from football, Nurenberg worked at a casino in Nice and later opened a bar there. He lived in

Saint-Laurent-du-Var Saint-Laurent-du-Var (; Occitan: ''Sant Laurenç de Var'', Italian: ''San Lorenzo del Varo'') is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera. History The town was founded in the 11 ...

, a Nice suburb, with his wife of over 50 years, Paulette Pieri. In 2008, he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the

Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg The Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (French: ''Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg'') is an order of merit of Luxembourg, instituted on 23 January 1961 by Grand Duchess Charlotte. Grand Master (order), Grand Master of the ...

. He died on 22 April 2010, aged 79.Vic Nurenberg ist tot,Ex-Fußballprofi starb im Alter von 79 Jahren
- Luxemburger Wort

Honours

Nice * French League: 1952, 1956, 1959 *

French Cup The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Charles Simon, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organized by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is open to all amateur and professiona ...

: 1952, 1954 Spora Luxembourg *

Luxembourg Cup The Luxembourg Cup () is the national knockout cup competition in Luxembourgian football. It was first held in 1922, and has been held annually since, with the exception of the four seasons during the German occupation during Second World War. W ...

: 1965, 1966

References

External links

Bio
- Profootball
Profile
- Association Luxembourgeois des Olympiens

- Sports-reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Nurenberg, Victor 1930 births 2010 deaths Association football forwards Luxembourgian footballers Luxembourg international footballers Luxembourgian expatriate footballers Olympic footballers of Luxembourg Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics OGC Nice players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players Olympique Lyonnais players SC Bastia players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Expatriate footballers in France Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in France Knights of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg