Franky Vercauteren
François Vercauteren ( born October 28, 1956 in Molenbeek -Saint- Jean), constantly as Franky Vercauteren called, nicknamed " The Prince ", is a former Belgian footballer on the position of a left - offensive acting midfielder and is now working as a football coach.
Playing career
He made his debut for the first team of Anderlecht in 1975 against KRC Mechelen. A double violation in October 1975 and January 1976 slowed its development. Vercauteren won five European titles with Anderlecht (twice the European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Cup, twice the European Super Cup). He also twice won the Belgian Cup, four league titles and twice the Belgian Supercup. In 1987 he moved to FC Nantes in France and three years later came back to Belgium to play until 1993 RWD Molenbeek. During the time in Nantes ended Vercauteren the championship. Twice as a player with the most assists
National
Vercauteren played 63 times for the Belgian national team. He was involved in the team that finished fourth at the World Cup 1986 and also played in the World Cup tournament in 1982 and the European Championships in 1984. Though he made his debut on November 16, 1977 were (Belgium lost 0-3 against Northern Ireland), was he is not selected for the European Championships in 1980, came into the finals in Belgium.
Coaching career
At the end of his playing career he became a coach of youth teams of CS Braine, a small club in Walloon Brabant. A year later he moved to KV Mechelen, where he first coached the then the first team (1997-1998) and Youth Team. At the end of the season he signed as an assistant coach at his first club, RSC Anderlecht. He was quickly appointed together with his friend Jean Dockx to the coach after a disappointing start to the season in the 1998/99 season.
In the season 2006/ 07 he celebrated his second Belgian national champion with the RSCA after the 2005/06 season. Under his leadership were in those two years, among other things, the Belgian young national players Vincent Kompany or Christian Wilhelmsson (Swedish national team ), Ahmed Hassan (Egyptian national team ) and many Argentine talents like Nicolas Frutos, Nicolas Pareja and Lucas Biglia ( was with the Argentine U -20 national team as captain world Champion).
On 12 November 2007 he was released from RSC Anderlecht after he finished only fourth in the league with seven points behind the league leaders. After a brief visit at the Belgian Herrennationalelf in 2009, he was still released in the same year and took over the KRC Genk. From 2011, he coached the Al- Jazira Club. On October 30, 2012, he became coach of Sporting Lisbon, but there already discharged on January 7, 2013, because his success fell short of expectations.