Louis Van Hege
 Louis Van Hege in the AC Milan shirt. | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Louis Van Hege | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 May 1889 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Uccle, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 24 June 1975 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Uccle, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1900–1906 | R.U. Saint-Gilloise | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1906–1910 | R.U. Saint-Gilloise | 42 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 1910–1917 | Milan | 91 | (98) | ||||||||||||||
| 1917–1924 | R.U. Saint-Gilloise | 90 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1919–1924 | Belgium | 12 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Louis Van Hege (8 May 1889 – 24 June 1975) was a Belgian footballer who played as an inside-forward.[1]
Club career
[edit]At club level, Van Hege played for Italian side A.C. Milan from 1910 to 1915, scoring 97 goals during five Italian Football Championship seasons with the rossoneri, and also serving as the club's captain between 1913 and 1915. In terms of goals scored, he's the tenth-highest goalscorer in the club's history. He left Italy when the First World War began.
International career
[edit]At international level, Van Hege competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics as a member of the Belgium national team which won the gold medal in the football tournament.
Bobsleigh career
[edit]Van Hege also competed in bobsleigh at the 1932 Winter Olympics, finishing ninth in the two-man event.
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- Italian football championship statistics
| Season | League | |
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| Apps | Goals | |
| 1910–1911 | 16 | 19 |
| 1911–1912 | 17 | 18 |
| 1912–1913 | 18 | 17 |
| 1913–1914 | 17 | 21 |
| 1914–1915 | 20 | 22 |
| 1915–1916 | 2 | 0 |
| 1916–1917 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 90 | 98 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Louis Van Hege". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- 1932 bobsleigh two-man results
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 October 2012)
- Milan Legend
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Louis Van Hege". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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- Belgian men's footballers
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