Jean-Louis Straetmans
Personal information
Date of birth (1931-09-26)26 September 1931
Place of birth Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium
Date of death 9 October 2016(2016-10-09) (aged 85)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1963 White Star Woluwé
1963–1964 RWS Bruxelles
International career
1952–1956 Belgium 5 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jean-Louis Straetmans (26 September 1931 – 9 October 2016) was a Belgian footballer who played as a forward. He made five appearances for the Belgium national team from 1952 to 1956.[1]

Club career

Straetmans was born in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. He scored 151 goals in 273 matches in the Belgian Second Division for White Star, ranking fifth in the list of the league's top scorers as of 2008.[2] He never played in the first tier.[3]

He retired from playing in 1959,[3] after breaking his heel when he fell from a scaffolding while working as a painter.[2]

International career

Named in Belgium's squad for the Group 2 qualification tournament for the 1954 FIFA World Cup,[4] he scored goals that helped Belgium achieve qualification for the World Cup before missing out on the tournament through injury.[3]

Personal life and death

After his retirement from playing Straetmans worked as a sporting director for White Star and Racing White.[3]

He was married to Monique Noël and owned a painting shop.[2]

He died on 9 October 2016, at the age of 85.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jean-Louis Straetmans". National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Marissens, Francis (17 May 2008). "Jean 'Cabiche' Straetmans: 'Ik brak hiel en carrière'". Brut (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "RWDM 50 years" (PDF). boekenbank.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "World Cup 1954 - Qualifying". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 May 2021.


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