Jean Dockx

Jean Dockx
Personnel
Surname	Jean-Baptiste Dockx
birthday	May 24, 1941
place of birth	Sint-Katelijne-Waver ,  Belgium
date of death	January 15, 2002
Place of death	Bonheiden ,  Belgium
size	172 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1966	KV Mechelen	170 (30)
1966-1971	RWD Molenbeek	141 (31)
1971-1978	RSC Anderlecht	215 (11)
	KSV Bornem
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1967-1975	Belgium	35 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	KSV Bornem (player-coach)
	RWD Molenbeek
	Royal Antwerp
	RSC Anderlecht
1 Only league games are given.

Jean-Baptiste Dockx (born May 24, 1941 in Sint-Katelijne-Waver , † January 15, 2002 in Bonheiden ) was a Belgian football player.

Career

1958-1988

He began his career at KV Mechelen , where he made his debut in the first team in 1958 as a 17-year-old. In 1962 he was called up for an international match of the Belgian U-21 national team against England , but was not used in the 1: 6 defeat against the age colleagues from Great Britain on November 7, 1962. In 1966 he moved to Racing White Molenbeek until he joined RSC Anderlecht in 1971 . At the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and the 1972 European Championship in Belgium, he was part of the Belgian national team . In the games for the European Championship qualification he had only played two games in Group 5 against competitors from Portugal, Scotland and Denmark for the national team coached by coach Raymond Goethals , but in the two quarter-finals in April 1971 in Milan (0-0 ) and in May 1972 in Brussels (2-1) against Italy, he stabilized the Belgian midfield together with Wilfried van Moer and Jan Verheyen . In the semi-final match on June 14, 1972 in Antwerp against the DFB team of Helmut Schön , he had to do with his midfield colleagues Verheyen and Léon Semmeling with the German MF trio Herbert Wimmer , Günter Netzer and Uli Hoeneß . Germany prevailed with two goals from striker Gerd Müller and made it into the final. Dockx and his comrades played the game for 3rd place against Hungary the day before, on June 17th in Liège, Belgium won 2-1 with goals from Raoul Lambert and Paul van Himst and thus achieved 3rd place the European Championship in 1972. Between 1967 and 1975 Jean Dockx played 35 international matches in which he scored three goals. In 1976 and 1978 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with RSC Anderlecht . In 1977 he was also in the final of this competition with Anderlecht, which was lost 2-0 to Hamburger SV . In 1978 he finished his professional career after 394 league games in which he scored 45 goals and 38 European Cup games.

1978-2002

From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a player-coach for the fourth-class KSV Bornem . In 1980 he moved to FC Assent until he coached a club in the top Belgian league for the first time in 1982 with RWD Molenbeek . He came back to RSC Anderlecht in 1984 via Royal Antwerp , where he became assistant coach under Paul van Himst , with whom he had played in the national team. He stayed in this position until 1999. When RSC Anderlecht had slipped to last place in the table at the beginning of the 1998/99 season, he replaced his former team-mate Arie Haan as head coach and led the RSC together with Franky Vercauteren to third place thus in the UEFA Cup . After the season he became technical director at Anderlechtern. Jean Dockx died of a heart attack in his home in Bonheiden in 2002 .

Web links

• Fan page with Vita
• Jean Dockx in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ De Standaard Online (as of June 25, 2008)