Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian Soccer Coach
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Raymond Goethals, the Belgian soccer coach who steered Olympique Marseille to the European Champions title in 1993, died yesterday, news reports said. He was 83.
Marseille’s 1-0 win over AC Milan in the 1993 final was the highlight in Goethals’s long coaching career, in which he also took the Belgian national team to the 1970 World Cup finals and won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1978 with Anderlecht.
The wily, Brussels-born coach was nicknamed “Raymond-the-Science” for his knowledge of the game.
Goethals began his soccer career as a goalkeeper starting in the 1930s with Brussels club Daring. He turned to coaching in the 1950s and was appointed to run the Belgian national team in 1968.
Goethals led Anderlecht to the final of the Cup Winners Cup in 1977 before winning the competition a year later.
After spells in France and Brazil, he took charge of Standard Liege, winning the 1982 and 1983 Belgian Championship. Back at Anderlecht in 1987, Goethals won another Belgian championship and two Belgian Cup titles.
In 1990, Goethals moved to Marseille, where owner Bernard Tapie was ambitious for European glory. In 1991, Olympique Marseille lost the European Cup final on penalties to Red Star Belgrade. Two years later, Goethals steered the French club to the title.