Full name Robert Langers Name Robby Langers Playing position Role Footballer | Years Team Height 1.78 m Position Forward | |
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Date of birth (1960-08-01) 1 August 1960 (age 55) Place of birth Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | ||
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Robert 'Robby' Langers (born 1 August 1960) is a retired footballer from Luxembourg.
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- Robby langers 4 tore in einer halbzeit nice strasbourg
- Club career
- International career
- International goals
- Honours
- References
He was voted Luxembourgish Sportsman of the Year in 1987.
Club career
He started his career at local side Union Luxembourg but was loaned to German Bundesliga outfit Borussia Mönchengladbach aged 20. After two seasons on the sub's bench and in the reserves he moved to France to play for seven different teams in ten seasons, both in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. While at US Orléans he became top goalscorer of Ligue 2. At Cannes he played alongside a youngster named Zinedine Zidane.
In 1992. Langers moved east to Swiss sides Yverdon-Sport and Etoile Carouge, then played with Eintracht Trier in Germany before returning home to play for F91 Dudelange and end his career in fashion by scoring 14 goals for his first club Union Luxembourg.
International career
Langers made his debut for Luxembourg in a September 1980 World Cup qualification match against Yugoslavia and won 73 caps for Luxembourg over a period of eighteen years, and scored eight goals in the process. He played in 35 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.
His international career coincided with two more of Luxembourg's most successful players: Guy Hellers and Carlo Weis. He played his final international game in May 1998, against Cameroon in which he came on as a second-half substitute and was himself substituted a few minutes later in his honour.