Henri Coppens
Rik Coppens | ||
![]() Rik Coppens in 1953
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | Henri François Louis Coppens | |
birthday | April 29, 1930 | |
place of birth | Antwerp , Belgium | |
date of death | 5th February 2015 | |
Place of death | Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium | |
size | 169 cm | |
position | striker | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1946-1961 | Beerschot VAC | 362 (258) |
1961–1962 | Olympic Charleroi | 27 | (3)
1962-1967 | Crossing Molenbeek | 121 | (32)
1967-1969 | Berchem Sport | 45 | (8)
1969-1970 | Tubantia Borgerhout | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1948 | Belgium U-19 | 4 | (0)
1949-1959 | Belgium | 47 | (21)
Stations as a trainer | ||
Years | station | |
1971-1974 | Berchem Sport | |
1974-1977 | Germinal beerschot | |
1977-1981 | Berchem Sport | |
1981-1982 | Club Bruges | |
1 Only league games are given. |
Henri François Louis Coppens , mostly Rik Coppens , (born April 29, 1930 in Antwerp , † February 5, 2015 in Wilrijk, Antwerp) was a Belgian football player and coach . The trained striker was considered an excellent dribbler and extremely dangerous for goals.
Club career
In his club career, Coppens mainly played for Beerschot VAC , which later merged with Germinal Ekeren to form Germinal Beerschot . He was the top scorer in the First Division in 1952, 1953 and 1955 and won the first Belgian Golden Shoe in 1954 . After leaving Beerschot, he continued his career from 1961 to 1970 at smaller clubs.
For the Belgian national team , Coppens played 47 times between 1949 and 1959, scoring 21 goals - ten of them in six games against the Netherlands alone . He took part in the 1954 World Cup, where he scored a goal in a 4: 4 against England , but Belgium was eliminated after the preliminary round.
Coaching career
Coppens coached the former first division club Berchem Sport , his parent club Beerschot VAC and in 1981/82 Club Bruges . He could not win a title with any of the three clubs.
Others
- Henri Coppens was often confused with his national team colleague Hendrik "Henri" Coppens , who came to 19 internationals between 1945 and 1949 and came to 498 league games and 168 league goals for RFC / KFC Malinois in just under two decades .
- He is considered the inventor of the “two-man penalty kick”: He ran for the penalty kick in the game “Belgium - Iceland” in 1957, but did not shoot, but first passed the ball to his teammate André Piters , from whom he returned it right in front of the Tor got back and then scored the goal from close range.
literature
- Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 .
Web links
- Rik Coppens in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Coppens' statistics against the Netherlands at Voetbalstats.nl
- ↑ Hendrik "Henri" Coppens in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)
- ↑ Hendrik "Henri" Coppens ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on soccerdatabase.eu (English)
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Belgium's footballer of the year 1954 |
Fons Van Brandt |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Coppens, Henri |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coppens, Rik; Coppens, Henri François Louis (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian football player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp , Belgium |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2015 |
Place of death | Wilrijk, Antwerp |