Fangio Buyse

Fangio Buyse (born 27 September 1974) is a Belgian football midfielder and manager.

Career[]

He played with Australian Aurelio Vidmar in K.S.V. Waregem and he moved to Greece to Niki Volou, Athinaikos, Kerkyra, Agios Dimitrios and Acharnaikos. On 2006 he went to Cyprus to play for Doxa Katokopias for two seasons. From summer 2008 he was player of APOP Kinyras Peyias. Where he scored and helped APOP Kinyras Peyias to win their first Cyprus cup title. In his first year as player/manager in 2012–13 he manages to promote AEK Kouklia F.C. for the first time in the team's history to the Cypriot First Division. In July 2013 he moved to AC Omonia Nicosia , first as coach of the U-21 team and later in a double role also as Assistant-coach after the team sacked Toni Savevski as a coach. In 21 months period he worked together with 3 headcoaches, Nenad Starovlah, Miguel Angel Lotina and Costas Kaiafas. He also was care-taker in Omonoia's win over EN Paralimni (0-3)(05-01-2014). After 3,5 years in Omonia Nicosia AC he moved back to Niki Volou (his first team as a player in Greece),he started first as technical director of the academy as he did also in his last year in Omonia and than in 2017-18 as first team manager winning the local Thessaly Cup, but also bringing the team to the Football League II Cup final. In 2018-2019 he became manager of Olympiakos Nicosia. When he took the team they were in last position with 0 points, but he managed to promote them to the first division with unbelievable winning statistics. After this successful year he decided to leave abroad of Cyprus. He was close to sign in FC Lugano but at the last moment the deal broke, so he found the new promoted Blue Boys Muhlenbach to sign and he managed to keep them in the BGL League.

Honours[]

• Belgian second division: Champion 1994–95
• Greece second division: Champion 2000–01
• Cypriot second division: promotion 2006–07
• Cypriot Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2009
  • Cyprus super-cup runner-up 2009:
  • Europaleague preliminary round**

as coach:

• Cypriot second division runner-up 2012–13 and promotion AEK Kouklia F.C.
• Qualified to participate in the second preliminary round of the Europaleague 2013-14 and 2014-15 AC Omonia Nicosia
• Winner of Thessaly Cup and finalist of Football League II Cup Niki Volou FC
• Olympiakos Nicosia promotion 2018-19
• Saved Blue Boys Muhlenbach from relegation with remarkable wins over Fola and Jeunesse Esch.

Managerial statistics[]

External links[]

• http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=250008747/profile/index.html
• http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cnt/DMF20130515_00584084