Joseph Vliers

Jef Vliers

Personal information
Full name	Joseph Jean Vliers
Date of birth	(1932-12-18)18 December 1932
Place of birth	Tongeren, Belgium
Date of death	19 January 1995(1995-01-19) (aged 62)
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1951–1954	K.S.K. Tongeren	145[1]	(120)
1954–1956	RC Brussels	28[1]	(10)
1956–1959	K. Beerschot V.A.C.	90[1]	(44)
1959–1966	Standard de Liège	210	(24)
National team
1955–1963	Belgium	6	(0)
Teams managed
1967–1969	Racing White
1969–1970	Beerschot
1972–1974	Beringen
1976–1977	Royal Antwerp
1978–1979	Waterschei Thor
1979	1. FC Nuremberg
1981–1983	Tongeren
1983–1984	Beringen
1984	Luxembourg
1988	Standard de Liège
1988–1989	Genk
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Joseph Vliers (18 December 1932 in Tongeren – 19 January 1995 in Tongeren^[2]), (mostly called Jef Vliers), was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian First Division with 25 goals and in 1958 while playing for Beerschot. He formerly played with Patria Tongeren and then with Racing de Bruxelles. In the summer of 1955 he moved to Beerschot and he eventually played with Standard Liège. Vliers played 6 times with the Belgian national team between 1955 and 1963. He made his international debut on April 3, 1955 in a 1-0 friendly defeat to the Netherlands. He was in the team for the 1954 FIFA World Cup but he did not play.

References

External links

• Profile at weltfussball
• Profile at Standard de Liège

Belgium squad – 1954 FIFA World Cup
1 Gernaey 2 Dries 3 Van Brandt 4 Huysmans 5 Carré 6 Mees 7 Vliers 8 Houf 9 Coppens 10 Anoul 11 Mermans (c) 12 Geerts 13 Dirickx 14 Van Kerkhoven 15 H. Van den Bosch 16 P. Van Den Bosch 17 Ausloos 18 Van Der Linden 19 Backaert 20 Maertens 21 Van Steen 22 Van Hoywegen Coach: Livingstone