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Ludo Coeck

Ludo Coeck

Belgian footballer


Ludo Coeck (25 September 1955 9 October 1985) was a Belgian footballer who played as left winger or central midfielder. His clubs included Berchem Sport, Anderlecht, Inter Milan and Ascoli Calcio.

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First capped for the Belgium national team at the age of 19, he went on to play for his country 46 times, scoring four goals, over an international career which lasted a decade.

Coeck was a member of the Belgium World Cup squad at España 82, where he played in all five of his country's games and scored with a long-range free-kick against El Salvador, and at Euro 84, where he appeared as a substitute in the defeats by France and Denmark.

On 7 October 1985, while he was on his way back to Antwerp, after signing for R.W.D. Molenbeek and taking part in a TV sports programme in Brussels, Coeck was badly injured when his BMW ploughed into crash barriers on a motorway near the town of Rumst. He died two days later, at the University of Antwerp Clinic in Edegem. He was 30 years old.

Honours

Player

RSC Anderlecht[1]

Individual


References

  1. "RSC Anderlecht | Palmares".
  2. "Tournois de Paris : une compétition opposant 4 clubs" (in French). Retrieved 8 November 2020.



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