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Place of Birth: Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Gilbert Bailliu
- Gilbert Bailliu (born 4 September 1936 in Bruges) is a Belgian former football player.
- Bailliu was an easily scoring striker. Bailliu started his career at Cercle Brugge.
- He made his début for the first team in 1954 against FC Izegem.
- At that time, Cercle were playing in third division, their lowest ever.
- It would last until 1957 for Bailliu to play on a regular basis for the first team.
- This was due to his conscription and a knee injury.
- But after these problems, Bailliu would become a key player for the green and black side, becoming top scorer of the team for 5 seasons.
- This way, he had a great deal in achieving promotion back to the highest level of Belgian football in 1961.
- And even at the highest level, Bailliu would remain a goal scoring machine. In 1966, Cercle were relegated to second division.
- But more disastrous were the corruption rumours spread by Lierse player Bogaerts, who said he had been approached by someone of Cercle.
- Although Cercle formally denied these rumours, they were sentenced to play in third division, back to where they were 5 years ago.
- Even though Cercle's vice-president won a lawsuit against the KBVB which declared him innocent in the corruption case, the damage had been done, and Cercle remained at the third level of Belgian football.
- This caused Cercle to lose important players, a.o.
- Gilbert Bailliu.
- He chose to leave Cercle for city rivals Club Brugge, a much-discussed transfer. Also at Club Brugge, Bailliu kept on showing his goal scoring capacities.
- Bailliu won the Belgian Cup in 1968 after defeating Beerschot with penalties.
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