Marc Emmers
Marc Jozef Emmers ( born February 25, 1966 in Hamont- Achel ) is a retired Belgian footballer. As an active example of KV Mechelen and RSC Anderlecht, he won many titles and took the national team of his native country participated in the FIFA World Cup in 1990 and 1994.
Career
Club career
Marc Emmers, born 1966 in Hamond - Achel, began playing football at the club Thor Waterschei, today's KRC Genk. There, the defender from 1983 to 1987 in 98 league games was on the road, where he scored fourteen hits. In 1987 he was on the crew of the KV Mechelen committed by Aad de Mos, who experienced his sporting heyday in those years and had just become Belgian Cup winners. This team was to players like goalkeeper Michel Preud'homme, defender and captain Leo Clijsters or midfielder Erwin Koeman eligible to start for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1987/88. There, the team of Mechelen penetrated to the finals after Dinamo Bucharest, FC St. Mirren, Dinamo Minsk and Atalanta were eliminated. In Strasbourg, France, the KV Mechelen finally caught up with a 1-0 win against Ajax Amsterdam the European Cup Winners' Cup, which is the biggest success in club history until today. A year later, Marc Emmers pointed the KV Mechelen again very successful, as the fourth and so far last time the Belgian football championship was won. After the championship in 1989 Aad de Mos Mechelen left towards RSC Anderlecht. At the same time, the big successes of the provincial association decreased.
Marc Emmers remained until 1992 in Mechelen and then moved to Anderlecht. In the following five years as a player for RSC Anderlecht Marc Emmers was indeed usually only sporadically used and lost his place in the starting line- soon, but was still on winning three championships between 1993 and 1995 involved. In 1997, Marc Emmers signed a contract with the Italian second division side AC Perugia, however, where he remained only a few months and was transferred in the same year for Swiss club FC Lugano. There and at unterklassigen Belgian club KFC Diest Marc Emmers did end his active career as a football player until 2000.
National
Between 1988 and 1994 it brought Marc Emmers as a player from Mechelen and Anderlecht on a total of 37 matches in the jersey of the Belgian national team. Here he succeeded in two Torerfolge. From coach Guy Thys he was appointed to the array of Belgium for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. In this, the Belgian team came after a second place in the group stage, only behind Spain but ahead of Uruguay and South Korea, the last sixteen before where one after extra time in Bologna was defeated 0-1 against England. Only in the 119 minutes of play succeeded David Platt here is to overcome the Belgian defensive.
Four years later, at the 1994 World Cup in the USA, Marc Emmers was again in the Belgian squad. As in Italy came from for selection of Belgium also at the tournament in the round of sixteen teams. This time failed Belgium with 2:3 to Germany. The second round of Chicago was the last game of Marc Emmers in the Belgian national football team, he finished after his international career.
Achievements
- Belgian Championship: 4x
- Belgian Cup: 1x
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1x