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Henri Meert

Belgian footballer (1920-2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ390128 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henri "Rie" Meert (27 August 1920 in Schaerbeek, Belgium – 19 May 2006 in Anderlecht) was a Belgian international football player.

He was the goalkeeper of Sporting Anderlecht in the entire 1950s; eight times he took home the Belgian Championship with the Mauves. He played 343 official matches (among which 312 in the first division) for the club and appeared 33 times in the national selection.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Henri Meert” is belgian footballer (1920-2006). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Henri, Meert and Belgian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Henri, Meert and Belgian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q390128. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henri Meert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.