Victor Wégria

Victor Wégria
Personal information
Full nameVictor Lucien Wégria
Date of birth4 November 1936
Place of birthVillers-Le-Bouillet Belgium
Date of death5 June 2008 (aged 71)
Playing positionStriker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
19551965R.F.C. de Liège245(145)
19651966Standard de Liège14(7)
19661970Racing Club Jette40(11)
19701973Racing Jet Brussels??(??)
Total299(162)
National team
19571961Belgium5(2)
Teams managed
19711975R.F.C. de Liège
1983R.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 association 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. He died on 6 June 2008, aged 71.[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 is dead" (in Dutch). Sporza. 2008-06-06.