René Vandereycken

René Vandereycken

René Vandereycken and Johan Boskamp
Personal information
Date of birth (1953-07-22) 22 July 1953
Place of birth Spalbeek, Belgium
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19711974 KSC Hasselt ? (?)
19741981 Club Brugge 233 (63)
19811983 Genoa CFC 28 (0)
19831986 R.S.C. Anderlecht 94 (13)
19861987 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 24 (0)
19871989 K.A.A. Gent 41 (1)
National team
19751986 Belgium 50 (3)
Teams managed
19891993 K.A.A. Gent
19931994 Standard de Liège
19941997 R.W.D. Molenbeek
1997 R.S.C. Anderlecht
2000 1. FSV Mainz 05
20022004 FC Twente
20042005 K.R.C. Genk
20062009 Belgium

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


René Vandereycken (born 22 July 1953 in Spalbeek) is a Belgian football manager and a former player. He was the head coach of the Belgian national team from 1 January 2006 to 7 April 2009.

Career

He played for Club Brugge, Genoa and Anderlecht.

International

As a player he got 50 caps and scored 3 goals for the national team, and represented Belgium at the Euro 1980, in the final of which he scored a penalty.

Coaching career

He used to coach 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 Belgian 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 2 matches against Bosnia in World Cup qualifying.[1][2]

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