Georges Serge Grün is a former 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

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 defender

Defender (football)

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 and is now a TV presenter for the UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League

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 matches at RTL TVI.

Grün made his international debut against Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

 on 13 June 1984, scoring on his debut. He is most famous in his home country for scoring the away goal

Away goals rule

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 that qualified Belgium at the expense of their neighbours Netherlands in the 1986 World Cup qualifying rounds. Belgium would go on to a very respectable 4th place finish. He played in three FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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s for the Belgium national football team (1986 World Cup, 1990 and 1994). He made his World Cup debut against Mexico

Mexico national football team

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 on 3 June 1986. Grün is the sixth most capped player for Belgium with 77 caps.
On the club level, he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht

R.S.C. Anderlecht

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA , is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian Pro League and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions as well as in the...

, Parma A.C. and Reggiana

A.C. Reggiana 1919

Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 is an Italian association football club, based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1919 as A.C. Reggiana and refounded in July 2005 as Reggio Emilia F.C., but it was renamed A.C. Reggiana 1919 soon after the start of the 2005–06 season. The...

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Honours

RSC Anderlecht

Jupiler League: 1985, 1986, 1987

Belgian Cup: 1988, 1989

Belgian Super Cup: 1985, 1987

UEFA Cup: 1983

Parma AC

Coppa Italia: 1992

UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1993

External links

• Profile at weltfussball