Georges Grün
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Georges Serge Grun | ||
Date of birth | 25 January 1962 | ||
Place of birth | Schaerbeek, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1982–1990 | Anderlecht | 212 | (27) |
1990–1994 | Parma | 109 | (9) |
1994–1996 | Anderlecht | 46 | (4) |
1996–1997 | Reggiana | 22 | (0) |
Total | 389 | (40) | |
International career | |||
1984–1995 | Belgium | 77 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Georges Serge Grün (born 25 January 1962, in Schaerbeek, Belgium) is a former Belgian football defender, who currently works as a television presenter for the UEFA Champions League matches at RTL TVI.
Grün made his international debut against Yugoslavia on 13 June 1984, scoring on his debut. He is most famous in his home country for scoring the away goal that qualified Belgium at the expense of their neighbours Netherlands in the 1986 World Cup qualifying rounds. Belgium would go on to a very respectable fourth-place finish. He played in three FIFA World Cups for the Belgium national football team (1986, 1990 and 1994). He made his World Cup debut against Mexico on 3 June 1986. Grün is the sixth most capped player for Belgium with 77 caps. On the club level, he played for Anderlecht, Parma and Reggiana.
Honours
- Anderlecht
- Belgian First Division: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87
- Belgian Cup: 1987–88, 1988–89
- Belgian Super Cup: 1985, 1987
- UEFA Cup: 1982-83
- Parma
External links
- Georges Grün at WorldFootball.net
- Use dmy dates from December 2010
- 1962 births
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- 1994 FIFA World Cup players
- A.C. Reggiana 1919 players
- Belgian expatriate footballers
- Belgian First Division A players
- Belgian footballers
- Belgium international footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Belgian expatriates in Italy
- Association football central defenders
- Living people
- Parma Calcio 1913 players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- Serie A players
- UEFA Euro 1984 players
- People from Schaerbeek
- Association football defenders
- Belgian football defender stubs