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1958–59 In Belgian Football
The 1958–59 season was the 56th season of competitive association football, football in Belgium. R.S.C. Anderlecht, RSC Anderlechtois won their 8th Belgian First Division, Division I title. Standard Liège entered the 1958–59 European Cup, 1958–59 European Champion Clubs' Cup as Belgian title holder and became the first Belgian club to win a match in European competitions. They eventually reached the quarter-finals. R.U. Saint-Gilloise, RU Saint-Gilloise entered the 1958–60 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and reached the semifinals. The Belgium national football team played 7 friendly games (3 draws, 4 losses).http://www.footbel.com/fr/nationale_elftallen/statistieken_1/per_datum.html FA website Overview At the end of the season, R.R.C. Tournaisien, RRC Tournaisien and R. Tilleur F.C., R Tilleur FC were relegated to Belgian Second Division, Division II and were replaced by R. Daring Club Molenbeek, R Daring Club de Bruxelles and Club Brugge K.V., RFC Brugeois from Division II. The ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ...
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Puskás Ferenc Stadium
Puskás is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006), Hungarian football player and manager **FIFA Puskás Award, the player judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant and "most beautiful" goal of the year **Ferenc Puskás Stadium, former multi-purpose stadium in Budapest, Hungary **Puskás Akadémia FC, the young team of Videoton Football Club of Felcsút, Hungary **Puskás Cup, an international football tournament founded by the Puskás Akadémia FC **Puskás Ferenc Stadion (Budapest Metro), a station of the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro **Puskás Aréna, a stadium in Budapest, Hungary *Tivadar Puskás (1844–1893), Hungarian inventor of the telephone exchange *Tivadar Puskás (politician) (1952–), Hungarian politician *Ferenc Puskás I (1903–1952), Hungarian football player and manager, father of Ferenc Puskás *Lajos Puskás (1944–), Hungarian footballer *Imre Puskás (1966–), Hungarian jurist a ...
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Ernst-Happel-Stadion
Ernst-Happel-Stadion (), known as Praterstadion until 1992, is a association football, football stadium in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. With 50,865 seats, it is the largest stadium in Austria. It was built between 1929 and 1931 for the 1931 Workers' Olympiad, second Workers' Olympiad to the design of German architect Otto Ernst Schweizer. The stadium was renamed in honour of Austrian footballer Ernst Happel following his death in 1992. The stadium hosted seven games in UEFA Euro 2008, including the UEFA Euro 2008 Final, final which saw Spain national football team, Spain triumph over Germany national football team, Germany. The stadium is owned by the City of Vienna (Municipal Department 51 – Sports of the City of Vienna). It is managed by the ''Wiener Stadthalle Betriebs und Veranstaltungsgesellschaft m.b.H.'', a subsidiary of ''Wien Holding''. It is a UEFA stadium categories, UEFA Category 4 stadium, and as such, it is the home of the Austria nat ...
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Austria National Football Team
The Austria national football team () represents Austria in men's international Association football, football competitions, and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association. The Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) was founded on 18 March 1904, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the 1930s, under coach Hugo Meisl, Austria's national team, known as the "Wunderteam" (literally "Wonder Team"), became a dominant force in European football. Notable achievements included a fourth-place finish in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and runners-up at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The Anschluss in 1938, which annexed Austria into Nazi Germany, led to the dissolution of the ÖFB and the obligatory integration of Austrian players into the Germany national football team, German national team for the 1938 World Cup. After World War II, Austria reestablished its national team and achieved significant success in the 1954 FIFA World Cup, 1954 World Cup, finishing third. The team continued to be comp ...
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Fernand Goyvaerts
Fernand Goyvaerts (24 October 1938 – 5 April 2004) was a Belgian international footballer. He played as an attacker. Club career He made his début for the first team of Club Brugge at the age of 16. In 1958, his penalty kick against CS Verviers was decisive for the promotion of Club to the highest level in Belgian football. He left Club Brugge in 1962 after a conflict with the Romanian coach Norberto Höfling. FC Barcelona paid 5 million Belgian franc for him. Two years later, he was voted ''best foreigner of the Primera División''. One year later, Goyvaerts left Barcelona for Real Madrid, making him the only Belgian still to have played for both Spanish giants.Profile & stats
- Lokeren Due to injuries, he was never able to break through. He followed his coach
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Victor Wégria
Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played mostly for RFC Liège, and later joined Standard Liège. 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. Honours Player Standard Liège * Belgian Cup winners: 1965-66 Individual * Belgian First Division top scorer: 1958–59 (26 goals), 1959-60 (21), 1960-61 (23), 1962-63 (29) Manager RFC Liège * Belgian League Cup The Belgian League Cup was a Belgian association football cup created in 1973. The competition was held from 1973 by eleven clubs wanting to increase professionalism in Belgian football but lasted only three seasons before being disbanded. The tourn ... runners-up: 1973 References ...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Region of Amsterdam, urban area and 2,480,394 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its canals of Amsterdam, large number of canals, now a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Amstel River, which was dammed to control flooding. Originally a small fishing village in the 12th century, Amsterdam became a major world port during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when the Netherlands was an economic powerhouse. Amsterdam was the leading centre for finance and trade, as well as a hub of secular art production. In the 19th ...
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Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)
The Olympic Stadium (, ) is a sporting venue which was used as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for Sport of athletics, athletics, other sports events and music concerts. When completed, the stadium had a capacity of 31,600. Following the completion of the rival De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in 1937, the Amsterdam authorities increased the capacity of the Olympic Stadium to 64,000 by adding a second ring to the stadium. In 1987, the stadium was listed as a national monument. Ajax Amsterdam, Ajax used the Olympic Stadium for international games until 1996, when the Amsterdam Arena, since 2018 renamed Johan Cruyff Arena, was completed. Renovation started in 1996, and the stadium was refurbished into the original construction of 1928. The second ring of 1937 was removed, reducing capacity to 22,288, and the stadium was made suitable for track and field competitions again. Since 2005, the stadium is home to a sports museum ...
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Martin Lippens
Martinus "Martin" Lippens (8 October 1934 – 2 November 2016) was a Belgian international football player and trainer who only played for one club, Sporting Anderlecht, as a midfielder.Décès de Martin Lippens, ancien joueur d'Anderlecht et 33 fois international
He played for Anderlecht in the entire 1950s; seven times he took home the Belgian Championship with the ''Mauves'', and once he also won the . He played 232 official matches in the first division for that club,< ...
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France National Football Team
The France national football team () represents France in men's international Association football, football. It is controlled by the French Football Federation (FFF; ), the governing body for football in France. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colours and imagery reference two national symbols: the French Flag of France, blue-white-red tricolour and Gallic rooster (''coq gaulois''). The team is colloquially known as ''Les Bleus'' (The Blues). They play home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis and train at :fr:Centre_national_du_football, Centre National du Football in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Founded in 1904, the team has won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, one CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one UEFA Nations League title. France was one of the four European teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930 ...
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Colombes
Colombes () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. In 2019, Colombes was the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 53rd largest city in France. Name The name Colombes comes from Latin ''columna'' (Old French ''colombe''), meaning "column". This is interpreted as referring either to a megalith, megalithic column used in ancient times by a druid, druidic cult which stood in Colombes until its destruction during the French Revolution, or to the columns of an Atrium (architecture), atrium in a ruined Gallo-Roman culture, Gallo-Roman Roman villa, villa that also stood in Colombes. History During the repression of January and February 1894, the police conducted raids targeting the Anarchism, anarchists living there, without much success. On 13 March 1896, 17% of the territory of Colombes was detached and became the commune of Bois-Colombes (). On 2 May 1910, 19% of the (reduced) terr ...
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Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
The Stade Yves-du-Manoir (officially Stade olympique Yves-du-Manoir, also known as the Stade olympique de Colombes, or simply Colombes to the locals) is a rugby, track, and association football stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France, Paris, France. History Named in memory of French rugby player Yves du Manoir in 1928, it was the main stadium for the 1924 Summer Olympics and had a capacity of 45,000 at the time. During the 1924 games, it hosted the Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, athletics, some of the Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics, cycling, some of the Equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics, horse riding, Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, gymnastics, Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics, tennis, some of the Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics, football, Rugby union at the 1924 Summer Olympics, rugby, and two of the Modern pentathlon at the 1924 Summer Olympics, modern pentathlon events (running, fencing). It was later expanded to a capacity of over 60,000. ...
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