Louis Pilot is a former Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

ian football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player and manager

Coach (sport)

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.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA

UEFA

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's jubilee, he was selected by the Luxembourg Football Federation

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 as the country's Golden Player

UEFA Jubilee Awards

To celebrate the Union of European Football Associations 's 50th anniversary in 2004, each of its member associations was asked by UEFA to choose one of its own players as the single most outstanding player of the past 50 years . The 52 players were known as the Golden Players...

 - the greatest player of the last 50 years.

Playing career

Pilot started his footballing career at his home town club CS Fola Esch

CS Fola Esch

Sporting Circle Fola Esch , usually abbreviated to Fola Esch or simply Fola, is a football club, based in Esch-sur-Alzette, in south-western Luxembourg...

, before signing for Belgian

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 team Standard Liège

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 at the age of 20. He went on to play 337 times for Standard, winning 4 Belgian league titles and 2 Belgian cups and then moved onto Royal Antwerp and Racing Jet

R. Jet Wavre

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. Pilot also represented the national team, winning 49 caps between 1959 and 1971, scoring seven goals in this time. He played in 14 FIFA World Cup qualification

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 matches.

He retired from playing football in 1978.

Manager career

Later that year, Pilot returned to Luxembourg and became the national team coach on April 12, leading his nation in this capacity until 1984, when he became the head coach at the club where he had enjoyed his most successful playing period, Standard Liège

Standard Liège

Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (Dutch: Standard Luik [], German: Standard Lüttich , is a Belgian football club from the city of Liège....

. He lasted only one season at Standard, before returning to Luxembourg and taking up similar roles at Etzella Ettelbruck

FC Etzella Ettelbruck

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 and FC Avenir Beggen

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, before assuming a less active role in football.

Honours (as a player)

• Belgian League: 4

1963, 1969, 1970,1971

• Belgian Cup
  Belgian Cup
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  : 2

1966, 1967

• Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
  Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
  The Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year is an award granted every season to a football player from Luxembourg's domestic top-flight National Division, rewarding the player judged to have been the most valuable to his team that season. It is awarded by the sports desk of d'Wort, Luxembourg's...
  
  : 4

1966, 1970, 1971, 1972

• Luxembourgian Sportsman of the Year: 2

1968, 1969

External links

• Bio - Profootball.lu
• Standard stats - Standard Liege
• Luxembourg's Golden Player - UEFA
• Career stats - National Football Teams