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Maurice Willems

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Maurice Willems
Willems for Belgium in 1956
Personal information
Date of birth (1929-09-24)24 September 1929
Place of birth Belgium
Date of death 4 December 1986(1986-12-04) (aged 57)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1952–1962 K.A.A. Gent[1] 210 (157)
1962–1963 Racing Club Brussel
1963–1965 K.R.C. Gent-Zeehaven
1965–1967 SK Deinze
Total 210 (157)
International career
1956–1957 Belgium 3 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Maurice Willems (24 September 1929 – 4 December 1986) was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian First Division with 35 goals in 1957.

As a center forward he scored a total of 185 goals for Gent. This makes Maurice still one of the greatest goalscorers AA Gent has ever known. He is also one of the 5 players from AA Gent who managed to become national top scorer.[2]

He played 3 times with the Belgium national team between 1956 and 1957. Willems made his international debut on 14 October 1956 in a 2–3 friendly defeat to the Netherlands and he scored.

Born on 24 September 1929, he died on 4 December 1986, at the age of 57.[3]

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KAA Gent

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References

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  1. ^ "ESKA-iconen". marnixcornelis.be/eskamuseum (in Dutch). 15 December 2022.
  2. ^ "ESKA-iconen". marnixcornelis.be/eskamuseum (in Dutch). 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Maurice Willems". National Football Teams. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Geschiedenis | KAA Gent" (in Dutch). www.kaagent.be. 7 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Topscorer Eerste Klasse".
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