Roland Storme (born 25 January 1934) was a

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football player who won the

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in 1958 while at

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. He played his debut in the

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the same year in a friendly win to Switzerland. Until 1962 Storme played 10 times for Belgium. In the early 1960s, he moved to

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 29,062.

Career

Born in

Roeselare Roeselare (; french: Roulers, ; West Flemish: ''Roeseloare'') is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. ...

, Storme began playing football with local side

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. At age 17, he signed for

, the second most expensive transfer in Belgian football history at the time. The

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was not fully professional at the time, so Storme worked in his parents' business and for a coal company while training with Gent in the evenings. After impressing during an international match against France, Storme was scouted by Atletico Madrid, but Gent refused their approach. Consequently,

manager Norberto Höfling was able to bring Storme to the club in 1960. After four seasons with Brugge, he returned to Gent for one season before finishing his career in the lower levels of Belgian football with Wervik, Eeklo, S.K. Roeselare and Doornik.

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