Louis Van Hege
| Louis Van Hege | ||
 Louis Van Hege in the AC Milan jersey
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Louis Marie Van Hege | |
| birthday | May 8, 1889 | |
| place of birth | Uccle / Ukkel , Belgium | |
| date of death | June 24, 1975 | |
| Place of death | Uccle / Ukkel , Belgium | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Striker , defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1907-1910 | Royale Union Saint-Gilloise | 42 (15) |
| 1910-1917 | AC Milan | 88 (97) |
| 1919-1925 | Royale Union Saint-Gilloise | 104 (9) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1919-1924 | Belgium | 12 (3) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Louis "Luigi" Marie Van Hege (born May 8, 1889 in Uccle / Ukkel , † June 24, 1975 ibid) was a Belgian football player and later bobsleigh driver .
Career
Van Hege began his career at Royale Union Saint-Gilloise in the Brussels suburb of Forest. He played from 1907 to 1910 in the men's team of the club, for which he ran 42 times and scored 15 times. At the age of 21, Van Hege moved to Italy for AC Milan in 1910 . He made his debut for the Milanese on November 27, 1910 against CFC Genoa , which was won 3-0. He played in Milan for five years, with Van Hege scoring 97 goals in 88 games. When the First World War broke out , he had to do military service in Belgium. After the war was over, Van Hege played five years at the Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, where he was only used as a defender and scored nine goals in 104 championship games.
With Belgium he won the Olympic gold medal in Antwerp in 1920 . In Belgium's national team, he was used from 1919 to 1922 in nine international matches, in which he scored three goals.
Van Hege also took part in the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid in the two-man bobsleigh competition, finishing ninth. At the Olympics in 1928 he was a reserve here.
successes
- Belgian champion: 1909, 1910 and 1923
- Olympic gold: 1920
Web links
- Louis Van Hege on magliarossonera.it (Italian)
- Louis Van Hege ( Memento of September 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on soccerdatabase.eu (English)
- Louis Van Hege in the database of the Belgian Football Association
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ 91 games and 98 goals (including the games played during the war championships during the First World War).
- ↑ Louis Van Hege Pallido Saettante . In: magliarossonera.it , June 17, 2005. Retrieved September 26, 2010. (Italian).
- ^ Bobsleigh Doubles Olympic Games 1932 Lake Placid (USA) . In: todor66.com , February 5, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2010. (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Van Hege, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Hege, Louis Marie (full name); Van Hege, Luigi (name in Italy) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian football player and bobsledder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uccle / Ukkel , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1975 |
| Place of death | Uccle / Ukkel , Belgium |