Roger Claessen

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Roger Claessen
Belgie versus Nederland. Claesen (België), inventory number 913-7154.jpg
Roger Claessen (1962)
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1941
place of birth Weerst ,  Belgium
date of death 3rd October 1982
Place of death Liege ,  Belgium
size 178 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1954-1956 Etoile Dalhem
1956-1958 Standard Liege
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958-1968 Standard Liege 210 (124)
1968-1970 Alemannia Aachen 44 0(11)
1970-1972 Beerschot VAV 7 00(3)
1972-1974 Crossing Schaerbeek 58 00(2)
1974-1976 RJS Bas-Oha (player -coach )
1976-1977 Sankt Vith (player-coach)
1977-1988 Queue-du-Bois (player-coach)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1960 Belgium U-19 7 00(0)
1961-1968 Belgium 17 00(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1974-1976 RJS Bas-Oha (player -coach )
1976-1977 RFC St.Vith (player-coach)
1977-1988 RFC Queue-du-Bois (player-coach)
1978-1980 Standard Liège (youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Roger Claessen (born September 27, 1941 in Weerst ; † October 3, 1982 in Liège ) was a Belgian football player and later coach .

Career

society

Claessen began his football career in 1958 at the Belgian first division club Standard Liège for which he played 180 championship games and scored 124 goals. There are also 20 appearances (15 goals) in the Belgian Cup and 29 appearances (22 goals) in UEFA competitions . Of his total of 161 goals for Standard, he only scored two from the penalty spot. In the 1966/67 season he was the best scorer in the European Cup Winners' Cup with ten goals . A season later, he was top scorer in the First Division with 20 goals , together with Paul van Himst .

In 1968 Claessen moved to Alemannia Aachen in the Bundesliga for the then record sum of DM 300,000 , in which he played for two years. In the 1968/69 season he finished 2nd with Alemannia Aachen behind Bayern and he scored nine goals that season. In the following season, however, Aachen rose to the second division and Claessen went back to Belgium. In total, he made 44 Bundesliga games for Aachen, in which he scored a total of eleven goals.

At K. Beerschot VAV in Antwerp , which later became Germinal Beerschot , he played two more years of first division football and in 1971 won the Beker van België . In 1972 he moved to the Royal Crossing Club de Schaerbeek (now KCVV Elewijt ), with whom he was relegated to the second division.

National team

Claessen was a Belgian national player between 1961 and 1968 and made 17 caps during that time. On his debut for the red devils on May 20, 1961, he scored the goal in the 1: 2 defeat against Switzerland .

Achievements and Awards

  • Top scorer of the 1966/67 European Cup Winners' Cup (for Standard Liège )
  • Top scorer in the Belgian First League 1967/68 (for Standard Liège )
  • Belgian champion 1961, 1963 (with Standard Liège )
  • Belgian cup winner 1967, 1968 (with Standard Liège ), 1971 (with Beerschot VAV )
  • He was voted the best standard player in history by Liege supporters , ahead of well-known footballers such as Eric Gerets and Michel Preud'homme . His portrait adorns a pillar on grandstand 1 in the club's Sclessin stadium .

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personal data
SURNAME Claessen, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Weerst
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1982
Place of death Liege