Christian Piot

Christian Piot
Jean-Marie Pfaff and Christian Piot (right).
Personnel
birthday	4th October 1947
place of birth	Ougrée ,  Belgium
size	176 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Ougrée
1963-1966	Standard Liege
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1988	Standard Liege	305 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1969-1977	Belgium	40 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Christian Piot (born October 4, 1947 in Ougrée , Wallonia ) is a former Belgian football goalkeeper .

Career

societies

Piot started playing football in his hometown and moved to Standard Liège as a youth player , where he spent his entire playing career as a professional. With Liège he won the Belgian championship three times in a row from 1969 to 1971.

From 1969 to 1978 he played 305 league games in which he scored nine goals from converted penalties. In 1972 Piot was awarded the Golden Shoe for the best Belgian footballer of the year.

After his active career, Piot was a few years a. a. works as a goalkeeper coach for his parent club Standard Liège.

National team

Piot took part in the World Cup in Mexico in 1970 and was eliminated there with the Belgian team in the preliminary round. At the European Championship in 1972 in his own country, he was third.

Between 1969 and 1977 Piot played 40 international matches for the "Red Devils", in which he converted a penalty.

successes

• 3 × Belgian champion (1969, 1970, 1971)

Awards

• Belgium's footballer of the year 1972

Web links

• Christian Piot in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christian Piot in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Christian Piot in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)

predecessor	title	successor
Erwin Vandendaele	Belgium's footballer of the year 1972	Maurice Martens