Fernand Boone (1 August 1934 – 11 September 2013) was a Belgian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

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who won the

Belgian Golden Shoe In association football, the Belgian Golden Shoe (, , German: ''Goldener Schuh'') is an award given in Belgium at the beginning of each civil year to the best footballer of the Belgian Pro League for the past year. The trophy is sponsored by the B ...

in 1967 while at

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

. He played 8 times for the

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between 1967 and 1968, starting in a 1-0 friendly win against the

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on 16 April 1967. He was considered as the substitute for the

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège ( ; ; ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won t ...

goalkeeper

Jean Nicolay Jean Nicolay (27 December 1937 – 18 August 2014) was a Belgian Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He earned the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1963 while at Standard Liège. He made 39 caps f ...

for the national team.

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* Belgian men's footballers Club Brugge KV players 1934 births 2013 deaths Men's association football goalkeepers Belgium men's international footballers 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-footy-goalkeeper-stub