SOCCER PLAYER

Alfons Van Brandt

1927 - 2011

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Alfons Van Brandt (Nijlen, 24 June 1927 – 24 August 2011), nicknamed Fons, was a Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1955 while at Lierse. Van Brandt was born in Kessel. He played 38 times for the national team between 1950 and 1957, starting in a 7-2 friendly win against the Netherlands on 12 November 1950. Van Brandt played in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfons Van Brandt is the 5,008th most popular soccer player (down from 3,626th in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular Belgian Soccer Player.

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Among soccer players, Alfons Van Brandt ranks 5,008 out of 21,273. Before him are Caesar ten Cate, Miguel Veloso, Frank O'Farrell, Michael Keane, Lee Chung-yong, and Andres Oper. After him are Marko Simeunovič, Damiano Tommasi, Mark Viduka, Niclas Alexandersson, Gary Speed, and Bernabé Rivera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Alfons Van Brandt ranks 418. Before him are Chris Connor, Tamara Nosova, Leslie Orgel, W. S. Merwin, Teodor Kocerka, and Frank O'Farrell. After him are Raymond Leppard, Hugo Budinger, François Nourissier, James Broderick, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Leonid Shcherbakov. Among people deceased in 2011, Alfons Van Brandt ranks 408. Before him are Chris Lawrence, Jaime Salazar, Yoshiko Tanaka, Gordon Tootoosis, Frank Buckles, and Jack Layton. After him are Gary Speed, Annalisa Ericson, Flemming Jørgensen, François Nourissier, Paul Motian, and Lennart Magnusson.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Alfons Van Brandt ranks 774 out of 1,190. Before him are Simon Mignolet (1988), Benoît Lamy (1945), Alice von Hildebrand (1923), Timmy Simons (1976), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Roger Foulon (1923). After him are Albert Heremans (1906), Ludo Peeters (1953), Frank Vandenbroucke (1974), Jean Brichaut (1911), Jean Capelle (1913), and Lize Marke (1936).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Belgium

Among soccer players born in Belgium, Alfons Van Brandt ranks 99. Before him are Marc Degryse (1965), René Verheyen (1952), Jules Pappaert (1905), Constant Joacim (1908), Simon Mignolet (1988), and Timmy Simons (1976). After him are Albert Heremans (1906), Jean Brichaut (1911), Jean Capelle (1913), Marc Baecke (1956), Michel De Wolf (1958), and Nico Claesen (1962).

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