Armand Joseph Jurion (born 24 February 1937), nicknamed Jef, is a Belgian former professional

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who played for the Belgium national team from 1955 to 1967. Jurion spent most of his club career at

R.S.C. Anderlecht Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, commonly abbreviated to RSC Anderlecht (, , ) or RSCA (, , ), is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian First Division A and is the mos ...

where he won nine

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titles and one

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and was awarded two Golden Shoes. He played in the match Belgium-

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in 1964 with ten teammates from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by

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Career

"Jef" began to play at

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and earned an early interest by Brussels giants Union and Racing White, but he finally signed with

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. In November 1954, he played his debut game in the first team of Anderlecht against

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(won 4–2) as a right winger. Jurion remained in the first team until he left for

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in 1967, to work as a player-coach. His early breakthrough permitted him to play the first European game of Anderlecht, against Hungarian side Vörös Lobogó (currently MTK) in 1955. Jurion achieved international fame after a memorable goal against

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in 1962 (a 1–0 win) which qualified Anderlecht for the second round of the Champions Cup after the 3–3 draw at Bernabéu. After this goal, he received the nickname of "Mister Europe". He began his international career in 1955 against

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. During his 64 appearances, he played at seven different positions and scored nine times. He is also remembered as one of very few notable football players, if not the only one, who constantly wore glasses during games. Jurion then successively coached

KSC Lokeren Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (), often simply called Sporting Lokeren or Lokeren, was a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Lokeren, in the province of East Flanders. The club was founded in 1923 but ce ...

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and

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Honours

Anderlecht *

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: 1954–55, 1955–56, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68 *

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: 1964–65; runner-up 1965–66 Individual *

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: 1957, 1962 *

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5th place:

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* Ballon d'Or nominations:

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

References

External links

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Bio at skynet.be
* 1937 births Living people Belgian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Belgium men's international footballers R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.A.A. Gent players Belgian football managers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen managers K.S.K. Beveren managers R.A.A. Louviéroise managers People from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw Footballers from Flemish Brabant 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-footy-midfielder-stub