Victor Wégria

Victor Wégria
Personal information
Full name Victor Lucien Wégria
Date of birth 4 November 1936(1936-11-04)
Place of birth Belgium
Date of death 5 June 2008(2008-06-05) (aged 71)
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1965 R.F.C. de Liège
1965–1966 Standard de Liège
1966–1973 Racing Jet Brussels
National team
1957–1961 Belgium 5 (2)
Teams managed
1971–1975 R.F.C. de Liège
1983 R.F.C. de Liège
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Victor Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008[1]) was a Belgian football striker.

He played mostly for RFC Liégeois, and later joined Standard de Liège.[2] 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 6 times top scorer of this competition). He was capped five times by the Belgium national football team. On 6 June 2008 aged 71, he died by natural causes[3]

References

  1. ^ http://hkg.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/vic-wegria/
  2. ^ http://www.standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=523
  3. ^ "Four times topscorer Wégria has passed away" (in dutch). Sporza. 2008-06-06. http://sporza.be/cm/sporza.be/voetbal/1.319339.