Franky Vandendriessche

Francky Vandendriessche
	Vandendriessche in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Franck Vandendriessche
Date of birth	7 April 1971 (age 50)
Place of birth	Waregem, Belgium
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1979–1990	K.S.V. Waregem
Senior career*
Years	Team
1991–1998	K.S.V. Waregem
1998–2005	Mouscron
2005–2007	Cercle Brugge
Total
National team
2003	Belgium
Teams managed
2007–2009	Mouscron (goalkeeping coach)
2009	Belgium (goalkeeping coach)
2009–2011	RAEC Mons (goalkeeping coach)
2011–2013	K.V. Kortrijk (goalkeeping coach)
2013–	Gent (goalkeeping coach)
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Franck "Francky" Vandendriessche (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfrɑŋk ˈfrɑŋki vɑndɛnˈdrisə]; born 7 April 1971) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career[]

Vandendriessche was born in Waregem. Among his former clubs are K.S.V. Waregem and Cercle Brugge.

International career[]

Vandendriessche played one game with the Belgium national team against Croatia due to the injuries of both Geert De Vlieger and Frédéric Herpoel and Belgium lost 4–0. He was in the team for the 2002 World Cup.

Coaching career[]

After his playing career, Vandendriessche became goalkeeping coach for his former team Mouscron. But due to financial uncertainty at Mouscron, he decided to move to RAEC Mons during the summer break of 2009. Assistant manager Geert Broeckaert would follow him a bit later.

On 10 July 2009, he became goalkeeping coach of the Belgium national team but was sacked on 6 October 2009 for having allegedly given a journalist from the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws details about team selection before it had been officially announced. The Belgian goalkeeper Stijn Stijnen retired from the Belgian football team on the same day in connection with this incident. He was from 2007, the goalkeeping coach at Excelsior Mouscron until June 2009, and a short time later became the goalkeeper coach at RAEC Mons. In May 2011, he became goalkeeping coach at K.V. Kortrijk.