Alphonse Six was a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 football player. Six is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with Cercle Brugge he scored 93 times in only 89 matches. His 1910-1911 season was especially remarkable, when scoring 38 goals in 20 matches, half of the goals Cercle Brugge scored that season. In 1910 Six received his first cap for Belgium, winning 3-2 against the Netherlands

Netherlands national football team

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 and scoring once. Six played nine times for Belgium, scoring eight goals.

Six still holds two Cercle Brugge team records:

• An average of 1.045 goals per match.
• Five goals in one match, against R.E. Sport's Club
  R.E. Sport's Club
  Royal Excelsior Sport's Club was a Belgian football club from Brussels that played in the first division from 1908 to 1913.-History:It was founded in 1904 as Excelsior S.C. de Bruxelles and it received the matricule n°20. It achieved its best ranking in 1909 and 1910 with a 7th place on 12. In...
  
  

In 1912, Six left Cercle for Union SG

R. Union Saint-Gilloise

R. Union Saint-Gilloise is a Belgian football club located in the municipality of Forest, though it is named after the neighbour municipality of Saint-Gilles, Brussels. It had been in the second division in 2004-05, but was subsequently relegated to third division. Its matricule is the n°10...

. Due to Union SG not keeping their promises about a job for him - professional footballers were unheard of at that time - he moved to Olympique Lillois

Olympique Lillois

Olympique Lillois was a French association football club from the city of Lille. Founded in 1902 they merged with SC Fives in 1944 to form Lille OSC.-Honours:Championnat de France*Champion : 1933*Runner-up : 1936Trophée de France...

, a predecessor of Lille OSC. That season he became the first Belgian football player to become a champion in a foreign country.

Death

In the beginning of August 1914, the Germans invaded Belgium and Six was called to arms. After the quick fall of the forts in Liège

Liège

Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

, King Albert I pulled his troops back to Antwerp. During this manoeuvre, the Belgian troops were surrounded by the Germans near Boutersem

Boutersem

Boutersem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Boutersem proper, Kerkom, Neervelp, Roosbeek, Vertrijk and Willebringen. On January 1, 2006 Boutersem had a total population of 7,532. The total area is 30.75 km² which gives a...

. Six and his companions were killed on 19 August, only two weeks after war broke out.