# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-jeck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:06:49.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-jeck"
name: "Léon Jeck"
slug: "leon-jeck"
description: "Léon Jeck was a Belgian footballer. He was a tough-tackling centre-back for Standard Liège and played for the Belgium national team against Russia and Mexico in the 1970 FIFA World Cup group stage. 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 on 23 June 2007 at the age of 60 from a pulmonary embolism."
tagline: "Belgian association football player (1947–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A9on_Jeck_(1968).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1947-02-09"
deathDate: "2007-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.76
  momentum:             3.208705357142857
  historical:           13.74287333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Леон Жек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ليون جيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ليون جيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86_%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "لئون یک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jeck"
    title: "Léon Jeck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Жек, Леон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1879448"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump