Alphonse Léopold Bauduin Six (1 January 1890 – 19 August 1914) was a

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football player. Six was born in

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and is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with

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he scored 93 times in only 89 matches. His 1910–1911 season was especially remarkable, when scoring 38 goals in 20 matches, half of the goals Cercle Brugge scored that season. In 1910 Six received his first cap for

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, winning 3–2 against

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and scoring once. Six played nine times for Belgium, scoring eight goals. Six still holds two Cercle Brugge team records: * An average of 1.045 goals per match. * Five goals in one match, against

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In 1912, Six left Cercle for Union SG. Due to Union SG not keeping their promises about a job for him - professional footballers were unheard of at that time - he moved to

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, a predecessor of Lille OSC. That season he became the first Belgian football player to become a champion in a foreign country.

Death

In the beginning of August 1914, the Germans invaded Belgium and Six was called to arms. After the fall of the forts in Liège,

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pulled his troops back to Antwerp. During this manoeuvre, the Belgian troops were surrounded by the Germans near

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. Six and his companions were killed on 19 August, only two weeks after war broke out.

Palmares

Club

;Cercle *

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(1): 1910–11 ;Union *

(1): 1912–13 *

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(1): 1912–13 ;Lille *Trophée de France (1): 1914 *Championnat USFSA (1): 1914 *Championnat USFSA Nord (1): 1914

References

Cerclemuseum.be

External links

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