Alexandre "Alex" Czerniatynski (born 28 July 1960) is a Belgian former

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Czerniatynski played for

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...

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, Antwerp again, KV Mechelen,

Germinal Ekeren Koninklijke Beerschot Antwerpen Club (), simply known as Beerschot AC, was a Belgian football club based in southern Antwerp. Beerschot played in the Belgian Pro League from 1999–2000 (as Germinal Beerschot) until 2012–13, when they were r ...

and Tilleur-Liège. He was part of the team when Antwerp played its last European final against

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in 1993, as well as in that of Anderlecht for its two European finals in 1983 and 1984 (scoring in the latter). Anderlecht played its last European final in 1990.

International career

Czerniatynski played 31 games, scoring six goals, for

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. He was also in the Belgian team for the

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, scoring one goal, and 1994 World Cups as well as for the Euro 1984 but he did not play a game in that tournament.

Coaching career

On 27 April 2009,

K.S.K. Beveren Koninklijke Sportkring Beveren (''Royal Sporting Club of Beveren'') is a Belgian association football club from the town of Beveren in East Flanders. KSK Beveren was particularly successful during the late 1970s and early 1980s in which it won ...

officials sacked Czerniatynski as coach. On 6 June 2010, it was announced that Czerniatynski would become the new head coach of Olympic Charleroi.

Honours

Player

Anderlecht *

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: 1984–85 *

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: 1982–83; runner-up 1983–84 *

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: 1983, 1985 Standard Liège *

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: runner-up 1987–88, 1988–89 Royal Antwerp *

: 1991–92 Belgian Cup, 1991–92 *

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: runner-up

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Germinal Ekeren *

: 1996–97 Belgian Cup, 1996–97

Individual

* List of UEFA Cup and Europa League top scorers#Winners by seasons, European Cup Winners Cup top scorer:

(seven goals)

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* * * 1960 births Living people Belgian footballers Belgium international footballers Belgian people of Polish descent Association football forwards Belgian Pro League players R. Charleroi S.C. players Royal Antwerp F.C. players R.S.C. Anderlecht players Standard Liège players K.V. Mechelen players Beerschot A.C. players RFC Liège players 1982 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1984 players 1994 FIFA World Cup players Belgian football managers K.S.K. Beveren managers Royale Union Saint-Gilloise managers K.V. Mechelen managers Sportspeople from Charleroi Footballers from Hainaut (province) UEFA Cup winning players Sportkring Sint-Niklaas managers RFC Liège managers {{Belgium-footy-forward-stub