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    Belgium

    Who won the first official Belgian Competition?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      FC Luik. They won the league five times.

    Who won the first Belgian Cup?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      RC Brussels. They won the final against RC Gent 1-0. The year after that, Union and Cercle played it. Union won 3-2. The first Belgian Cup was in 1911.

    Who was top scorer in the 2003-04 season (he was playing for Excelsior Moeskroen during that season)?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      Luigi Pieroni. It got him a transfer to Aj Auxerre in France.

    Who was the first player to win the Belgian Golden Boot?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      Rik Coppens. Rik Coppens played for Beerschot when he won the Golden Boot. This first Golden Boot Award was in 1954.

    Who scored the most Belgian goals in the 2002 World Cup?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      Marc Wilmots. Marc Wilmots scored three goals, one in each match, except for the match (1/8 finals) against Brasil. Wilmots did scored a goal, but it wasn't a legal goal said the referee. Brasil won that match 2-0. .

    Which was Belgium's first major tournament win?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      The Olympic Soccer Tournament 1920. Belgium hosted the Olympic Games in 1920. They were held at Antwerp.

    Which coach failed to guide Belgium to Euro 2004?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      Aime Antheunis. Despite failing to qualify for Euro 2004, Aime Antheunis remained the national head coach. He was at Racing Genk and RSC Anderlecht before becoming the Belgium manager.

    Which club played the Belgian Cupfinal in 2004, with a squad consisting almost entirely of players from Ivory Coast, earning them a place in the Uefacup in 2004-05?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      SK Beveren. To prevent the club from going bankrupt, they only contracted cheap players from their soccer school in the Ivory Coast.

    What Belgian trainer was called "de tovenaar"?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      Raymond Goethals. It was the best Belgian trainer ever, but he died in November 2004. He was called "de tovenaar", in English, the wizard because sometimes, it seems that he was really using magic.

    The very first season was held back in 1895-96, and was won by FC Liégeois. Which club, one of the two Belgian European Cup winners, was situated in Belgium's capital Brussels?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      RSC Anderlecht. Anderlecht is a small part of Brussels. The club is sometimes wrongly named "RSCA Brussels". The club has also thought about adding "Brussels" to the name but refrains from doing so. They won their first European Cup in 1976 against West Ham United.

    Players were not able to move freely between EU countries and discuss their own wages before 1995. What was the name of the Belgian player, who's appeal made this possible in 1995 ?Soccer In Belgium (larskeu)

      Jean-Marc Bosman. It was the famous "Bosman ruling". Since Belgium didn't have European top clubs, the ruling worked mostly against them.

    I won the Golden Boot in 1978 when I played for Beveren. When my contract expired, I went to Bayern Munich. I was one of the best players in my position in the world. Who am I?Soccer in Belgium (pieterke)

      Jean-Marie Pfaff. Pfaff really was one of the best, maybe the best keeper in the world.

Frequently Asked Questions about Belgium

    • Who said, "Belgium is a nation, not a road?" ( goto )


    • Why are there different French Dialects in Belgium? ( goto )


    • What was the first Billboard hit to feature a singer from Belgium? ( goto )


    • Is it true that Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films? ( goto )


    • What part of the present-day United States was called New Belgium in the seventeenth century, at a time when the modern state of Belgium had not even been created yet? ( goto )


    • Who did King Leopold II of Belgium hire to explore and found colonies in Zaire? ( goto )


    • "Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald." Can you locate the origin of this proverb? Belgium, West Indies, Honduras, or Australia? ( goto )


    • Which country can boast of the largest organisation devoted to Sherlock Holmes, out of the 375-odd such organisations around the world: UK, Japan, France or Belgium? ( goto )


    • Out of the following European countries which ones are not land-locked: Slovakia, Croatia, Belarus, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Belgium, and Austria? ( goto )


    • Given that the French hardly use the letter W except in borrowed words, why does the name of French-speaking part of Belgium begin with W? ( goto )


    • What cartoon character turned 75 years old in Belgium this month and was honored with a commemorative 10-Euro coin with his and his dog's image on one side and a map of Europe on the other? ( goto )


    • In which sport does each tean consist of four men and four women on a pitch 40 metres by 20 metres divided into two halves, except in Belgium and Holland where it is divided into thirds? ( goto )


    • Jedd Hughes was chosen to represent Australia on a three week tour of Europe, performing at the International Music for Youth festivals held in France, Belgium and Sweden. How old was he when this took place? ( goto )


    • Of what Welsh town could all of the following towns be considered to be some kind of cultural clones: Wigtown, Scotland; Atherstone, England; Fjaerland, Norway; Redu, Belgium; Bredevoort in the Netherlands; and Stillwater in the United States? ( goto )


    • How were international telephone dialing codes assigned and how come the US and Canada, two huge countries, share one code (1) when much smaller countries with a lot in common, such as the UK and Ireland, or Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, have different codes? ( goto )


    • Dusting off a quiz which I compiled some months ago, I have discovered the following question: Which country is Britain's oldest ally, with no conflicts in over 900 years? The choices were Holland, Portugal and Belgium. Now I cannot find the correct answer. Which is it? ( goto )


    • Joe DiMaggio was given one, so too has the Queen of England, and a well known Italian film actress. Even a King of Belgium and a Pope were given one. The biggest one so far was given to an American President. What are they and which prince had a chocolate one made in his honour? ( goto )


    • Forty years after his death, a famous gypsy-born jazz composer and guitar player became the first artist in his category to be celebrated by the French postal services as some kind of national hero, though in fact the man had been born in Belgium near Charleroi. Who was he and can you also say what the nominal value of the post-stamp was? ( goto )


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