Career
Seghers started in 1942 as a keeper at Satellite Launch Vehicle Zelzate (Sint-Laurens Voetbalclub Zelzate), which merged in 2008 with Football Club Zelzate, hereafter called KVV Zelzate. In 1949, he was discovered by Associate of Arts Louisiana Gantoise. He played 485 games in competition for "the Gantoise", as Associate of Arts Gent was called in that time, played 18 cup games and 4 European games.
During 12 seasons he played all the games, of which the first 158 without interruption.
Seghers was born in Zelzate. The town council of Zelzate honoured him on 18 November 2003 as honorary citizen, because of his contribution to local sport.
In 2013, a street in the town was namved after him. Thanks to this performance, he played in the Europe League (then called Europe Cup of Cup Winners).
In May 1966, he finished his active playing career.
Between 1951 and 1960, he was selected 20 times for the national team In those 20 selections, he finally had 11 real performances as national keeper of the Rode Duivels. At the celebration of the centenary of Associate of Arts Gent, he was elected "Buffalo of the century".
His selections:
The game on 25 December 1952 in Paris against France was his first cap.
This gave him his nickname the hero of Colombes
His trademark was his hat, which he always wore during every match. Every time he jumped, he lost his "klakke", as it is called in Dutch dialect, which provoked hilarity among the supporters.
Nevertheless, he hardly ever missed a ball. On 15 March 2005, Seghers died at the age of 78 in his native town of Zelzate, after a lingering illness.
His funeral service took place on 19 March 2005.