Théo Malget (born 2 March 1961) is a

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ish retired international

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who played club football for

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and

FC Avenir Beggen Football Club Avenir Beggen is a football club, based in Beggen, a quarter of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The club were founded in 1915 as FC Daring Beggen but changed their name to FC Avenir Beggen a year later. In 1940, they we ...

, as a

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. He is, as of August 2021, an assistant coach at Etzella Ettelbruck.

Club career

Malget scored 93 goals in 238 matches for FC Wiltz.

International career

He made his debut for

in an April 1982

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against

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and earned a total of 47 caps, scoring 3 goals. His final international was an October 1993 World Cup qualification match away against

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Personal life

Malget's son,

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, is also a professional footballer.

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* 1961 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Luxembourgian men's footballers Luxembourg men's under-21 international footballers Luxembourg men's international footballers FC Wiltz 71 players FC Avenir Beggen players Luxembourg National Division players Luxembourg Division of Honour players Luxembourgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Luxembourgian football managers {{Luxembourg-footy-bio-stub