Odilon Polleunis

Odilon Polleunis

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Lon Polleunis played most of his career for Sint-Truiden. The stylish attacker, also originating from Sint-Truiden, became a real club icon. With 89 goals, he is still the club's top scorer in the first division. In the mid-1970s, "Lon" moved to RWDM, with which he won the Belgian title in 1975.

International career

Polleunis started in a 2–1 friendly win against the Netherlands on 7 April 1968. He scored on his debut and the first of his seven goals in his first five International games, including a hat-trick against Finland and two against Yugoslavia in World Cup qualifiers in October 1968. At the 1970 FIFA World Cup Polleunis came on as substitute in Belgium's win against El Salvador and started against Mexico in the third game replacing Raoul Lambert.

Club
K.S.K. Tongeren (1976–1977)
Club
Sint-Truidense V.V. (1962–1973)
Club
Racing White Daring Molenbeek (1973–1976)
Club
Belgium men's national football team (1968–1975)
Club
Football Club Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek (1973–1976)
National team
Belgium

Legacy

Honours

Sint-Truiden

Belgian First Division runner-up: 1965–66 Belgian cup runner-up: 1970-71 RWD Molenbeek

Belgian First Division: 1974–75 Jules Pappaert Cup: 1975 Amsterdam Tournament: 1975 Belgium

UEFA European Championship third place: 1972 Individual

Belgian Golden Shoe: 1968 Man of the Season (Belgian First Division): 1971–72 Honorary Citizen of Sint-Truiden: 2021

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Belgian footballer (1943–2023)

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Odilon Polleunis, nicknamed Lon, was a Belgian footballer who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1968 while at Sint-Truiden. He played 22 matches and scored 10 goals for the Belgium national team between 1968 and 1975.

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