- Code
- CLO_004
- Clubs
- Clapton Orient
- Featuring
- Braine
- Size
- 6x4 inches
- Year
- 1930
- Comments
- VGC - Raymond Braine, a Belgian international centre forward - 5th highest goalscorer in Belgian history with 26 goals in 54 games, and the first professional Belgian footballer, and seventh in the Belgian Golden Shoe of the Century award. Signed for Orient in Dec 1929, but couldn't obtain a work permit so he joined Sparta Prague in 1930 and there he scored 120 goals in 106 games, between 1930 and 1936. Before and after this he played at home for Beerschott VAC, where he appeared 255 times, hitting 210 goals, across both spells. He was top scorer in Belgium and then Czechoslovakia four times. The Czechs offered him citizenship if he opted to play for them at the 1934 World Cup, but he declined, instead remaining qualified for Belgium and representing his country in the 1938 WC.
- Price
- £20.00