René Thirifays
Personal information
Date of birth (1920-10-08)8 October 1920
Place of birth Belgium
Date of death 17 October 1986(1986-10-17) (aged 66)
Place of death Belgium
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1954 Charleroi
International career
1946–1949 Belgium 13 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

René Thirifays (8 October 1920–17 October 1986[1]) was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian League with 26 goals in 1949 while playing for Sporting Charleroi.[2] He played 13 times with the Belgium national team between 1946 and 1949. Thirifays made his international debut on 23 February 1946 in a 7–0 friendly win against Luxembourg.[3]

Honours

Club

Charleroi

Individual

References

  1. ↑ René Thirifays
  2. ↑ "Perbet devient le troisième carolo de l'histoire à devenir meilleur buteur" (in French). RTBF. 22 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Par joueur Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Palmarès Charleroi". sporting-charleroi.be (in Dutch). 28 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Topscorer Eerste Klasse".
  • Liesse, Georges (1953). Le Roi René ou René Thirifays raconte se vie de Footballer. Lodelinsart. p. 76.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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