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Léon Jeck
Football, Football player
1947 – 2007
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Who was Léon Jeck?
Léon Jeck was a Belgian international footballer. He was a tough-tackling Centre-Back for Standard Liege and played against Russia and Mexico in the 1970 World Cup Finals. It was Jeck's tackle that was controversially given as a penalty in the Mexico game that helped the hosts, not Belgium, progress to the next stage. He died at the age of 60, the 23 June 2007 from pulmonary embolism.
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