Jean Dockx
Jean -Baptiste Dockx ( born May 24, 1941 in Sainte-Catherine -Waver, † 15 January 2002 Bonheiden ) was a Belgian football player.
Career
1958-1978
He began his career at KV Mechelen, where he debuted in 1958 as a 17 -year-old in the first team. In 1966 he moved to Racing White Molenbeek until 1971 he joined the RSC Anderlecht. In the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and the 1972 European Championship in Belgium, he was in the squad of the Belgian national team. In games, European Championship qualifier although he had only played two games coached by coach Raymond Goethals national team in the group 5 against the competitors from Portugal, Scotland and Denmark, but in the two quarter-finals in April 1971 in Milan (0:0 ) and in May 1972 in Brussels ( 2-1 ) against Italy, he stabilized the Belgian midfield together with Wilfried van Moer and Jan Verheyen. In the semi-final on 14 June 1972 in Antwerp against the DFB team of Helmut Schön he had Semmeling with his midfield colleagues Verheyen and Léon to do with the German trio MF Herbert Wimmer, Günter Netzer and Uli Hoeness. With two goals from striker Gerd Müller, Germany won the day and moved into the finals. Dockx played with his mates a day earlier, June 17 in Liege, against Hungary, the third -place play- Here Belgium continued with goals from Raoul Lambert and Paul van Himst 2-1 in through and thus won the 3rd place the European Championship in 1972. between 1967 and 1975, denied Jean Dockx 35 matches in which he scored three goals. 1976 and 1978 he won with RSC Anderlecht the European Cup Winners' Cup. In 1977, he was with Anderlecht also in the final of this competition, which was, however, lost 0-2 against Hamburger SV. In 1978 he finished after 394 league games in which he scored 45 goals and 38 European matches his professional career.
1978-2002
From 1978 to 1980 he was a player-coach for the fourth-rate KSV Bornem tätig.1980 he moved to FC Assent until the RWD Molenbeek first time in 1982 coached a club in the highest Belgian league. About the RFC Antwerp in 1984 he came back to RSC Anderlecht, where he was an assistant coach under Paul van Himst, with whom he had played together in the national team. In this capacity he remained until 1999. Was as RSC Anderlecht slipped at the start of the 1998/99 season on the last place, he released his previous teammate Arie Haan as head coach, and completing the RSC together with Franky Vercauteren up to third place and thus, in the UEFA Cup. After the season, he was Technical Director of the Anderlecht Echtern. Jean Dockx died on 15 January 2002 of a heart attack at his home in Bonheiden.