Alphonse Six

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Alphonse Six
Full name	Alphonse Léopold Bauduin Six
Date of birth	January 1, 1890(1890-01-01)
Place of birth	Bruges, Belgium
Date of death	August 19, 1914 (aged 24)
Place of death	Boutersem, Belgium
Playing position	striker
Youth clubs
	Cercle Brugge
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1907-1912 1912 1913-1914	Cercle Brugge Union SG Olympique Lillois	87 (92)
National team²
1910-1914	Belgium	9 (8)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 May 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Alphonse Six (born January 1, 1890 in Bruges - died August 19, 1914 in Boutersem), was a Belgian football player. Six is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with Cercle Brugge he scored 93 times in only 89 matches. His 1910-1911 season was especially remarkable, when scoring 38 goals in 20 matches, half of the goals Cercle Brugge scored that season. In 1910 Six received his first cap for Belgium, winning 3-2 against the Netherlands and scoring once. Six played nine times for Belgium, scoring eight goals.

Six still holds two Cercle Brugge team records:

An average of 1.045 goals per match.
Five goals in one match, against R.E. Sport's Club

In 1912, Six left Cercle for Union SG. Due to Union SG not keeping their promises about a job for him - professional footballers were unheard of at that time - he moved to Olympique Lillois, a predecessor of Lille OSC. That season he became the first Belgian football player to become a champion in a foreign country.

[edit] Death

In the beginning of August 1914, the Germans invaded Belgium and Six was called to arms. After the quick fall of the forts in Liège, King Albert I pulled his troups back to Antwerp. During this manoeuvre, the Belgian troops were surrounded by the Germans near Boutersem. Six and his companions were killed on August 19, only two weeks after war broke out.