Soccer World Cup 1934 / Belgium

This article covers the Belgian national team at the 1934 World Cup .

qualification

In the qualifying round, the Belgian team had to face the Netherlands and Ireland in Group 7 . After they played a 4: 4 draw against Ireland on February 25, 1934 away in Dublin , on April 28, 1934 they lost 4: 4 at home to the Netherlands in Antwerp . In both games, the Belgians violated the rules, as injured players were substituted on both occasions without the official rules of the game providing for such a substitution. However, the results were not canceled.

Since Ireland had previously lost 5-2 to the Netherlands, both teams stayed with just one point in the group and the goal difference decided. Belgium had conceded one less goal in their defeat by the Netherlands and because of that small difference they happily qualified for the finals of the World Cup ahead of Ireland .

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Netherlands	2	2	0	0	9: 4	4th
2	Belgium	2	0	1	1	6: 8	1
3	Ireland	2	0	1	1	6: 9	1

Game results

02/25/1934	Dublin Dalymount Park	Ireland	-	Belgium	4: 4 (1: 2)	Goals: 0: 1  Jean Capelle  (13th), 0: 2  Stanley van den Eynde  (25th), 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 3, 4: 4  Paddy Moore  (27th, 48th, 59th) , 75.), 1: 3, 3: 4  Francois van den Eynde  (47., 62.)
04/28/1934	Antwerp Bosuil Stadium	Belgium	-	Netherlands	2: 4 (0: 0)	Goals: 1: 0  Laurent Grimmonprez  (51.), 1: 1  Kick Smit  (60.), 1: 2, 2: 4  Beb Bakhuys  (62., 84.), 1: 3  Leen Vente  (64.), 2 : 3  Bernard Voorhoof  (71.)

Belgian contingent

Surname	society	birthday	Games	0Gates0	Space management
goalkeeper
Arnold Badjou	Daring Club de Bruxelles Société Royale	June 25, 1909	0	0	0
André Vandeweyer	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	June 22, 1909	1	0	0
Defense
Albert Heremans	Daring Club de Bruxelles Société Royale	Apr 13, 1906	1	0	0
Constant Joacim	Royal Berchem Sport	03rd Mar 1908	1	0	0
Jules Pappaert	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	0Nov 5, 1905	1	0	0
Philibert Smellinckx	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	Jan. 17, 1911	0	0	0
Joseph Van Ingelgem	Daring Club de Bruxelles Société Royale	Jan. 23, 1912	0	0	0
Félix Welkenhuysen	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	Dec 12, 1908	1	0	0
midfield
Désiré Bourgeois	RFC Mechelen	Dec 13, 1908	0	0	0
Jean Claessens	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	June 18, 1908	1	0	0
Laurent Grimmonprez	Royal Racing Club de Gand	Dec 14, 1902	1	0	0
Auguste Hellemans	RFC Mechelen	June 21, 1907	0	0	0
François Peeraer	Royal Antwerp	Feb 15, 1913	1	0	0
Victor Putmans	Union Hutoise FC	May 29, 1914	0	0	0
Charles Simons	Royal Antwerp	Oct. 27, 1906	0	0	0
attack
Jean Brichaut	Standard Liege	July 29, 1911	0	0	0
Jean Capelle	Standard Liege	Oct 26, 1913	1	0	0
François De Vries	Royal Antwerp	Aug 21, 1913	1	0	0
Robert Lamoot	Daring Club de Bruxelles Société Royale	18 Mar 1911	0	0	0
René Ledent	Standard Liege	0Nov 8, 1907	0	0	0
Louis Versyp	Club Bruges	0Dec 5, 1908	0	0	0
Bernard Voorhoof	Koninklijke Lierse SK	May 10, 1910	1	2	0
Trainer
Hector Goetinck		05th Mar 1887

Game results

Round of 16

Sun., May 27, 1934 at 4:30 p.m. in Florence
Germany	-	Belgium	5: 2 (1: 2)

In the round of 16, the first round, the Belgian team met Germany at the Stadio Giovanni Berta in Florence . Due to an 8-1 defeat only seven months ago, she was only given outsider chances.

However, the Belgians managed to take a 2-1 lead until half-time. Bernard Voorhof scored the two goals in the 32nd and 45th minute after the German opening goal in the 27th minute by Stanislaus Kobierski . Four German goals against in the second half, the equalization by the German striker Otto Siffling in the 47th minute and three follow-up goals by the German center forward Edmund Conen in the 67th, 70th and 87th minutes, however, led to the final score of 2: 5 , which meant for the team for the second time after 1930 the World Cup in the first round.