Roland Storme

Roland Storme
Storme in 1961
Personal information
Date of birth (1934-01-25) 25 January 1934 (age 90)
Place of birth Belgium
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Roeselare
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1960 K.A.A. Gent 301 (15)
1960–1964 Club Brugge
1964–1965 K.A.A. Gent
International career
1958–1962 Belgium 10 (0)
Managerial career
1976–1977 K.A.A. Gent
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roland Storme (born 25 January 1934) was a Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1958 while at K.A.A. Gent. He played his debut in the national team the same year in a friendly win to Switzerland. Until 1962 Storme played 10 times for Belgium. In the early 1960s, he moved to Club Brugge.[1]

Career

Born in Roeselare, Storme began playing football with local side Roeselare. At age 17, he signed for K.A.A. Gent, the second most expensive transfer in Belgian football history at the time. The Belgian First Division was not fully professional at the time, so Storme worked in his parents' business and for a coal company while training with Gent in the evenings.[2]

After impressing during an international match against France, Storme was scouted by Atletico Madrid, but Gent refused their approach. Consequently, Club Brugge manager Norberto Höfling was able to bring Storme to the club in 1960. After four seasons with Brugge, he returned to Gent for one season before finishing his career in the lower levels of Belgian football with Wervik, Eeklo, Roeselare and Doornik.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Storme Roland". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Gent gunde me toptransfer naar Atletico Madrid niet!" (in Dutch). Krant van West-Vlaanderen. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2019.


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