Marcel Pertry

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Marcel Pertry
Full name	Marcel Pertry
Date of birth	April 19, 1921 (1921-04-19) (age 87)
Place of birth	Vlamertinge, Belgium
Playing position	attacker
Youth clubs
	SK Vlamertinge
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1943-1955	SK Vlamertinge Cercle Brugge Cercle Ieper	277 (137)
National team²
	Belgium	0 (0)
Teams managed
	Cercle Brugge (youth coach) Club Brugge (assistant manager) SK Roeselare FC Torhout
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 February 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 4 February 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Marcel Pertry (born April 19, 1921) is a Belgian former football player. Pertry is especially remembered for his goalscoring abilities. Pertry is also Cercle Brugge's all-time top scorer.

Pertry was transferred from his local team SK Vlamertinge to Cercle Brugge in 1943. He made his début in a 2-2 home draw against Lyra, scoring once. Pertry would especially remember his début because when he was waiting in Ieper for his train to Bruges, some members of the Flemish National Union's Black Brigade passed by. One stepped out of his group, went towards Pertry and hit him in the face, telling that the mockery with the Black Brigade should stop once and for all. Pertry didn't know what he had done wrong. Probably, he just had a big smile on his face while looking forward towards his first match at the highest level of Belgian football.

Pertry ended his career as football player with Cercle Ieper, but would return to Cercle Brugge as youth coach. Before the 1966-67 season, Cercle Brugge were looking for a new head coach. Marcel Pertry (assistant manager at that time) and Urbain Braems were the biggest candidates for the vacant position. Both had to give to the Cercle board their vision about football and how they would implement it in the training sessions. But due to the Cercle board not reaching a consensus, Frenchman Jules Van Dooren was finally chosen.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Albert De Kimpe	Cercle Brugge Topscorer 1944 – 1946 – 1947	Succeeded by Edmond Verté
Preceded by Edmond Verté	Cercle Brugge Topscorer 1949 – 1950 – 1951	Succeeded by Georges Debbaut