Frank König
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| Full name | Adolphus Franciscus König | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 May 1874 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ghent, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 December 1959 (aged 85) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Brussels, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1895–1897 | Sporting Club de Bruxelles | |||||||||||||
| 1897–1900 | Racing Club de Bruxelles | |||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1900 | Belgium Olympic (1) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Adolphus Franciscus "Frank" König (7 May 1874 – 9 December 1959) was a Belgian
Biography
König was born in Ghent to Swiss parents, but moved to England as a child to study there. While in England, he was introduced to football and developed an interest in the growing sport. In 1895 he returned to Belgium and shortly after his arrival he was one of the founding members of the Belgian Football Association on 1 September 1895.[citation needed]
He then joined
Besides football, he practiced several other sports such as
König was a member of the Belgian squad who won a bronze medal in Paris, acting as coach of a team made up almost entirely of students of the University of Brussels.[2] The team lost its only game at the tournament to Club Français by 6 goals to 2.[6]
König refereed his first and last international match on 30 April 1905, a Low Countries derby between Belgium and the Netherlands in the 1905 Coupe Vanden Abeele, ending in a 4–1 win to the Dutch after extra-time, but more important than the result was its historic relevance since it was the Dutch's very first official game.[3]
Honours
Club
- Belgian First Division:
- Champions (2): 1896–97, 1899–1900
Individual
References
- ^ a b "Frank König". www.mondefootball.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Frank König". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Frank König". Eu-football.info. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Topscorers in Belgium 1895-2001" (in Dutch). Belgian Soccer History. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Topschutters - Belgiumsoccerhistory". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Games of the II. Olympiad". RSSSF. 12 May 2022. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Topscorer Eerste Klasse".