Paul Guillaume van Himst is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht. Regarded as Anderlecht's ultimate club icon, Van Himst holds the record of four Belgian Golden Shoe awards and was named best "Belgian footballer of the twentieth century".
Paul Van Himst with Anderlecht in 1973
Anderlecht team in August 1967. Van Himst below, as second from right.
Van Himst with Belgium in 1964
Paul Van Himst in 2016
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian First Division A and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions, with five trophies, as well as in the Belgian domestic league, with 34 championship wins. They have also won nine Belgian Cups and hold the record for most consecutive Belgian championship titles, winning five between the 1963–64 and 1967–68 seasons.
Atmosphere before a 2024 Champions' Play-offs game at Anderlecht
Image: Rob Rensenbrink (1978)
Image: Paul Van Himst cropped
Image: Jef Mermans cropped