René Vandereycken
Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 22 July 1953 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Spalbeek, Belgium | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1971–1974 | KSC Hasselt | ||||||||||||
1974–1981 | Club Brugge | 233 | (63) | ||||||||||
1981–1983 | Genoa | 28 | (0) | ||||||||||
1983–1986 | Anderlecht | 94 | (13) | ||||||||||
1986–1987 | Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||
1987–1989 | Gent | 41 | (1) | ||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1975–1986 | Belgium | 50 | (3) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1989–1993 | Gent | ||||||||||||
1993–1994 | Standard Liège | ||||||||||||
1994–1997 | R.W.D. Molenbeek | ||||||||||||
1997 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||
2000 | Mainz 05 | ||||||||||||
2002–2004 | Twente | ||||||||||||
2004–2005 | Genk | ||||||||||||
2006–2009 | Belgium | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
René Vandereycken (born 22 July 1953) is a Belgian football manager and a former player. He was the head coach of the Belgium national team from 1 January 2006 to 7 April 2009.
Club career[]
Vandereycken was born in Spalbeek. He played for Club Brugge, Genoa and Anderlecht.
International career[]
As a player, he got 50 caps and scored three goals for the Belgium national team, and represented Belgium at the Euro 1980, in the final of which he scored a penalty.
Coaching career[]
Vandereycken coached FC Twente as well as R.S.C. Anderlecht for some months and was fired by K.R.C. Genk in June 2005 after he managed to qualify the team for the UEFA Cup. The other teams he managed were Gent, Standard, RWDM and Mainz 05. Vandereycken is known to like the defensive play and to be a tactician.
He was the head coach of the Belgium national team from January 2006 to April 2009. During this time, he was subject to a lot of criticism in the press for his tactical decisions. He was sacked on 7 April 2009 after not managing to get any points from two matches against Bosnia in World Cup qualifying.[1][2]
Honours[]
Player[]
Club Brugge[3]
- Belgian First Division: 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1979–80
- Belgian Cup: 1976–77
- Belgian Super Cup: 1980
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: runner-up 1977–78
- UEFA Cup: runner-up 1975–76
- Japan Cup Kirin World Soccer: 1981[4]
- Jules Pappaert Cup: 1978[5]
Anderlecht[6]
- Belgian First Division: 1984–85, 1985–86
- Belgian Super Cup: 1985
- UEFA Cup: runner-up 1983–84[7]
- Bruges Matins: 1985[8]
- Jules Pappaert Cup: 1983, 1985[5]
Belgium
- UEFA European Championship: runner-up 1980[9]
- FIFA World Cup: 1986 (fourth place)[10]
- Belgian Sports Merit Award: 1980[11]
Manager[]
References[]
- ^ Belgien entlässt Coach Rene Vandereycken
- ^ "Belgium dispense with Vandereycken". Uefa.com. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
- ^ "Club Brugge | Palmares".
- ^ "Kirin Cup 1981".
- ^ a b "Jules Pappaert Cup".
- ^ "RSC Anderlecht | Palmares".
- ^ "Tijdperk-Vanden Stock: 20 landstitels, 8 bekers en 3 Europabekers".
- ^ "Winnaars Brugse Metten".
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1980".
- ^ "FIFA 1986 World Cup". Archived from the original on 5 June 2016.
- ^ "Nationale Trofee voor Sportverdienste".
- ^ "Palmares Trainer van het Jaar".
External links[]
- Sport.be website - News (in French)
- René Vandereycken at WorldFootball.net
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Flemish sportspeople
- Association football midfielders
- Belgian footballers
- Belgium international footballers
- Belgian expatriate footballers
- Belgian First Division A players
- Club Brugge KV players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin players
- K.A.A. Gent players
- Genoa C.F.C. players
- Serie A players
- Bundesliga players
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- UEFA Euro 1980 players
- UEFA Euro 1984 players
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- Belgian football managers
- K.A.A. Gent managers
- Standard Liège managers
- R.W.D. Molenbeek managers
- R.S.C. Anderlecht managers
- K.R.C. Genk managers
- FC Twente managers
- Belgium national football team managers
- 1. FSV Mainz 05 managers
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands
- Belgian expatriate football managers
- Belgian football midfielder stubs