Félix Balyu

Félix Charles Louis Balyu (5 August 1891 – 15 January 1971) was a Belgian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Club Brugge and US Tourquennoise. He represented the Belgium national team at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, where they won a gold medal.

Club career Balyu began his football career in the youth ranks of Club Brugge in 1908, at age 17, and made his senior debut in 1911.

International career In early 1915, Balyu, together with a small group of Belgian players who had retreated to France because of WWI, formed a committee of the Belgian FA in Paris, which organized one match against France every year. Even though this Belgian team had some former internationals, such as Balyu, Emile Hanse, Jan Van Cant, or Maurice Vandendriessche, its games and its results are recognized as official only by the CFI, but not by FIFA, who categorized them as "War-time Internationals". He was also a member of the Belgian Front Wanderers, the team that toured England in 1917, where they played against the British and Canadian army on 25 and 28 November.

Balyu only earned his first (and last) international cap for the official Belgium national team on 29 August 1920, in the first round of the football tournament of the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, which ended in a 3–1.

Career statistics Belgium score listed first, score column indicates score after each Balyu goal.

Honours Club Brugge Belgian Pro League: 1919–20 Belgian Cup runner-up: 1914

Belgium Journées du Poilu Sportif 1916 Summer Olympics gold medal: 1920

Individual Journées du Poilu Sportif top goalscorer: 1916 (at least 8 goals)