SOCCER PLAYER

Henri Coppens

1930 - 2015

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Henri 'Rik' François Louis Coppens (29 April 1930 – 5 February 2015) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played 389 games and scored 261 goals for Beerschot AC. Coppens won the first Belgian Golden Shoe in 1954. After his career as a player, he became a coach with Tubantia Borgerhout (1970–1971), Berchem (1971–1974 and 1977–1981), Beerschot (1974–1977 and 1981–1984) and Club Brugge (1981). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Coppens is the 2,003rd most popular soccer player (down from 1,962nd in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 525th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Belgian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Henri Coppens ranks 2,003 out of 21,273Before him are Jorginho, Tomás Fernández, Josef Čtyřoký, José Perácio, Victor Lindelöf, and Marco Silva. After him are Karl Mai, Otto Siffling, Herminio Masantonio, Andrea Barzagli, Hossam Hassan, and Antonio Sastre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Henri Coppens ranks 340Before him are Vlatko Pavletić, Patricia Jones, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Wilferd Madelung, Julio Abbadie, and Richard C. Sarafian. After him are Adam Darius, Edna O'Brien, Dawn Addams, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Cristóbal Halffter, and Roger Vonlanthen. Among people deceased in 2015, Henri Coppens ranks 245Before him are Patricia Crone, Mike Porcaro, Tadeusz Konwicki, Jules Bianchi, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, and Anna Kashfi. After him are Jacques Sernas, Robert Z'Dar, Johan Ferner, Dimitar Iliev Popov, Karl-Erik Palmér, and Oleg Bryjak.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Henri Coppens ranks 543 out of 1,190Before him are Gonzales Coques (1614), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Charles Delporte (1893), Maurice Verdonck (1873), Joseph Pholien (1884), and Hermann Huppen (1938). After him are Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Georges Heylens (1941), Robert Waseige (1939), Jules de Burlet (1844), Hieronymus Cock (1518), and Thomas Vermaelen (1985).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Belgium

Among soccer players born in Belgium, Henri Coppens ranks 33Before him are Léon Semmeling (1940), Erwin Vandenbergh (1959), Mousa Dembélé (1987), Joseph Mermans (1922), Jean de Bie (1892), and Lorenzo Staelens (1964). After him are Georges Heylens (1941), Thomas Vermaelen (1985), Walter Meeuws (1951), Arnold Badjou (1909), Yannick Carrasco (1993), and Odilon Polleunis (1943).