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Paul Van Himst (born 2 October 1943) is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht.

Paul Van Himst

Van Himst with Anderlecht in 1973
Personal information
Full name	Paul Van Himst
Date of birth	(1943-10-02) 2 October 1943 (age 79)
Place of birth	Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1951–1959	Anderlecht
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1975	Anderlecht	457	(233)
1975–1976	Molenbeek	21	(1)
1976–1977	Eendracht Aalst
National team
1960–1974	Belgium	81	(30)
Teams managed
1983–1986	Anderlecht
1987–1988	Molenbeek
1991–1996	Belgium
Honours Representing  Belgium UEFA European Championship 1972 Belgium
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Van Himst was nicknamed Polle Gazon (Polle is Paul in Brussels dialect, and Gazon means lawn in Dutch and French) due to the large number of fouls committed on him. In 1964, he played in the Belgium-Netherlands match alongside 10 Anderlecht players after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean-Marie Trappeniers.

Van Himst won the Belgian championship eight times, all of them with Anderlecht, the club for which he played his first professional season in 1959–60. With Anderlecht, he scored 233 goals in 457 matches (16 seasons). He then played for RWDM (another Brussels club) in 1975–76 and for Eendracht Aalst (then in the second division) in the following season.

Between 1960 and 1974, Van Himst scored 30 goals (in 81 matches) for the Belgian national team. This performance made him Belgium's second top scorer—along with Bernard Voorhoof—and the tenth most capped player for his country. He made his debut on 19 October 1960 in a match against Sweden and he was part of Belgium's team which qualified for the 1970 World Cup. Van Himst then helped Belgium reach third place at the Euro 1972. As a football manager, Van Himst worked notably for Anderlecht and the national team which he led to the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Family

His wife, Arlette Neckebroeck, died on 4 December 2013.[1]

Filmography

• Escape to Victory (1981) - Michel Fileu - The Players: Belgium
• Max (1994) - Himself

Honours and awards

Van Himst holds the record of most Golden Shoe awards, having won it on four occasions. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was named the Golden Player of Belgium by the Belgian Football Association as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.[2]

He has been an ambassador for the Belgian/South-African NGO "Born In Africa" since 2005.

In 2009, Van Himst became honorary citizen of Dilbeek.[3]

Player

Anderlecht[4][5]

• Belgian First Division: 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74
• Belgian Cup: 1964–65, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75
• Belgian League Cup: 1973, 1974
• Tournoi de Paris: 1964, 1966[6]
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up: 1969–70

International

• UEFA European Championship third place: 1972[7]

Individual

• Belgian Golden Shoe: 1960, 1961, 1965, 1974[8]
• Belgian First Division top scorer: 1963–64 (26 goals), 1965–66 (25 goals), 1967–68 (20 goals)[9]
• Ballon d'Or: 1964 (5th place),[10] 1965 (4th place)[11]
• Ballon d'Or nominations: 1963,[12] 1966,[13] 1967,[14] 1972[15]
• 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification: Group 1 top scorer (5 goals)
• 1966–67 European Cup: top scorer (6 goals)[16]
• 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fair Cup: top scorer (10 goals)[16]
• Man of the Season (Belgian First Division): 1970–71[17]
• Former Belgium's Most Capped Player: 1973–1989 (81 caps)[18]
• Belgian National Sports Merit Award: 1974[19]
• Belgian Footballer of the 20th Century: 1995[20]
• Planète Foot's 50 of the World's Best Players: 1996[21]
• IFFHS European Player of the Century (39th): 2000[22]
• Platina 11 (Best Team in 50 Years of Golden Shoe Winners): 2003[23]
• UEFA Golden Player Award: 2003[24]
• The Best Golden Shoe Team Ever: 2011[25]
• DH The Best RSC Anderlecht Team Ever: 2020[26]
• IFFHS All Time Belgium Dream Team: 2021[27]

Manager

Anderlecht[4]

• Belgian First Division: 1984–85
• Belgian Super Cup: 1985
• UEFA Cup: 1982–83; runner-up: 1983–84
• Jules Pappaert Cup: 1985[28]

Individual

• Belgian Professional Manager of the Year: 1982–83[29]

See also

• List of UEFA Cup winning managers

References

External links

Media related to Paul Van Himst at Wikimedia Commons

• CV
• UEFA.com – Golden Player of Belgium
• Born In Africa – Ambassador of the NGO
• – Belgium still bow to Van Himst – By Berend Scholten on UEFA.com

На других языках

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[de] Paul Van Himst

Paul Van Himst (* 2. Oktober 1943 in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw) ist ein ehemaliger belgischer Fußballspieler und -trainer. Der Offensivspieler wurde mit dem RSC Anderlecht achtmal Meister, holte viermal den Pokal, stand 1970 im Finale des Messestädte-Pokals und wurde vier Mal in seiner Heimat mit dem Goldenen Schuh ausgezeichnet. Er wurde im August 1995 zum besten belgischen Spieler aller Zeiten gewählt.

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- [en] Paul Van Himst

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[es] Paul van Himst

Paul van Himst (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 2 de octubre de 1943)[1]es un centrocampista belga de fútbol y entrenador. Ahora retirado, sigue apoyando al RSC Anderlecht, su exequipo. Lo apodaron Polle Gazon (Polle es Paul en el dialecto de Bruselas, y Gazon significa césped en francés), debido a la gran cantidad de faltas cometidas contra él. En 1964, jugó en el partido Bélgica-Países Bajos junto a 10 jugadores del Anderlecht después de la sustitución del portero Guy Delhasse por Jean-Marie Trappeniers.

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[fr] Paul Van Himst

Paul Van Himst est un footballeur belge né le 2 octobre 1943 à Leeuw-Saint-Pierre.

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[it] Paul Van Himst

Paul Guillaume Van Himst (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 2 ottobre 1943) è un allenatore di calcio, ex calciatore e dirigente sportivo belga.

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[ru] Ван Химст, Поль

Поль Ван Химст (нидерл. Paul Van Himst; род. 2 октября 1943[1], Синт-Питерс-Леув, Халле-Вилворде) — бельгийский футболист, выступавший на позициях нападающего и атакующего полузащитника.

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