Alphonse Six

Football player infobox


playername= Alphonse Six
fullname = Alphonse Léopold Bauduin Six
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date|1890|1|1
cityofbirth = Bruges
countryofbirth = Belgium
dateofdeath = death date and age|1914|8|19|1890|1|1
cityofdeath = Boutersem
countryofdeath = Belgium
height =
position = striker
youthyears =
youthclubs = Cercle Brugge
years = 1907-1912
1912
1913-1914
clubs = Cercle Brugge
Union SG
Olympique Lillois
caps(goals) = 87 (92)
nationalyears = 1910-1914
nationalteam = Belgium
nationalcaps(goals) = 9 (8)
pcupdate = 27 May 2008
ntupdate = 27 May 2008

Alphonse Six (January 1, 1890 in Bruges – August 19, 1914 in Boutersem) was a Belgian football player. Six is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with Cercle Brugge he scored 93 times in only 89 matches. His 1910-1911 season was especially remarkable, when scoring 38 goals in 20 matches, half of the goals Cercle Brugge scored that season. In 1910 Six received his first cap for Belgium, winning 3-2 against the Netherlands and scoring once. Six played nine times for Belgium, scoring eight goals.

Six still holds two Cercle Brugge team records:
* An average of 1.045 goals per match.
* Five goals in one match, against R.E. Sport's Club

In 1912, Six left Cercle for Union SG. Due to Union SG not keeping their promises about a job for him - professional footballers were unheard of at that time - he moved to Olympique Lillois, a predecessor of Lille OSC. That season he became the first Belgian football player to become a champion in a foreign country.

Death

In the beginning of August 1914, the Germans invaded Belgium and Six was called to arms. After the quick fall of the forts in Liège, King Albert I pulled his troups back to Antwerp. During this manoeuvre, the Belgian troops were surrounded by the Germans near Boutersem. Six and his companions were killed on August 19, only two weeks after war broke out.

References

* [http://www.cerclemuseum.be Cerclemuseum.be] nl icon