Eric Viscaal

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Eric Viscaal
Personnel
birthday March 20, 1968
place of birth Eindhoven ,  Netherlands
position attacking midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1988 PSV Eindhoven 24 0(8)
1988-1989 SK Beveren 34 (17)
1989-1990 Lierse SK 29 (14)
1990-1995 KAA Gent 153 (57)
1995-1996 Grasshopper Club Zurich 13 0(7)
1996-2001 De Graafschap 165 (56)
2001-2003 KV Mechelen 52 0(9)
2003-2006 Dilbeek sport
at least 2008/09 VK Weerde
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992 Netherlands 5 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003-2006 Dilbeek Sport (player-coach)
2008/09 Germinal Beerschot (assistant coach)
2009 Germinal Beerschot (interim)
2009– Germinal Beerschot (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Eric Viscaal (born March 20, 1968 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch former football player . He played in the Eredivisie for De Graafschap , in Belgium for KAA Gent and in Switzerland for Grasshopper Club Zurich . In the Dutch national team he was used five times. In the 2009/10 season he is youth and assistant coach at the Belgian first division club Germinal Beerschot .

Club career

Beginnings in Eindhoven

In his youth, Viscaal played at the football club Tongelre in the Eindhoven district of the same name before moving to PSV . Here he made his debut in the Eredivisie in the 1986/87 season; in the match at FC Den Bosch he was substituted on for René van der Gijp a few minutes before the end of the game . In three other matches of the season Viscaal, who played as an attacking midfielder or as a second tip, was used. Under coach Guus Hiddink he remained in the following season 1987/88 supplementary player in the PSV-Elf, in which Hans van Breukelen , Ronald Koeman , Søren Lerby and Eric Gerets were among the regulars.

His first goals in the Eredivisie he made on October 17, 1987 against PEC Zwolle : he came on after an hour and scored the last two goals to win 5-1. Nevertheless, he did not get beyond the role of substitute for Wim Kieft or Hans Gillhaus for a long time . Only after he drew attention to himself with four goals in the game against VVV-Venlo in March 1988 - in the 5-0 win he scored the first four goals, two before and two after the half-time break - did he get into the starting line-up Move and was allowed to play through a few times. Eight goals were his record in the 20 appearances of the season. In both seasons, the Eindhoven Dutch champions .

Breakthrough in Belgium

For the following season Viscaal was loaned to SK Beveren in Belgium . Here he was able to conquer a regular place, scored 17 goals in 34 first division games and was voted Belgian Young Professional of the Year. In the season 1989/90 he came again on loan to Lierse SK , where he was similarly successful with 14 hits in 29 games. In the meantime, AA Gent became aware of the young Dutchman and bought him from PSV. At the same time, coach René Vandereycken also brought on Frank Dauwen and Erwin Vandenbergh . Gent played for the championship for a long time, but ultimately had to make do with third place and participation in the UEFA Cup . After successes against Lausanne-Sports , Eintracht Frankfurt and Dynamo Moscow , the team advanced to the quarter-finals, where they had to admit defeat to eventual winners AFC Ajax . Viscaal stayed with the Buffalos for five years, scoring 57 league goals in 153 games as a regular.

A curiosity occurred in the 1992/93 season in the match at Cercle Brugge . When the score was 1-0 for the hosts, the Ghent goalkeeper was sent off shortly before the end of the game; Bruges also received a penalty. Since the Buffalos had already changed three times, a field player had to go into the goal: Viscaal took over responsibility - and parried the penalty of the Croatian striker Josip Weber (1964-2017) (who was top scorer three times in a row from 1992 to 1994 in the Belgian league and after naturalization also played in the Belgian national team). But that's not all: when a penalty was called for Ghent just a minute later, Viscaal went forward again, grabbed the ball and saved his team a point in the final seconds with the equalizer.

After a less successful interlude for Viscaal in 1995/96 as a loan player with the Grasshoppers in Zurich - which, however, became champions this season - Viscaal returned to the honor division in the same season. He also joined VBV De Graafschap on loan in Doetinchem , where he was again a regular. With the Grafschaftern he signed a five-year contract at the end of the season, although his contract with AA Gent ran for another year, so Viscaal was temporarily banned from playing and the courts had to be employed to determine a transfer fee. He was active here until 2001, temporarily forming a storm duo with the former Wattenscheid Ghanaian Ali Ibrahim under coach Fritz Korbach , who, in the opinion of their former defense colleague Eric Redeker, “put de Graafschap on the map” before he - now 33 years old - again went to Belgium. The KV Mechelen was his seventh professional station; Even his obligation could not prevent the KV from being relegated to the Tweede class . Although the promotion was successful, but in 2003 the club had to return to the third division due to financial problems and all players had to be sold. Viscaal ended his professional career and joined the fourth division Dilbeek Sport.

Stations

as a professional footballer:

  • PSV (1986–1988, Eredivisie, 24 games / 8 goals)
  • SK Beveren (1988/89, first class, 34/17)
  • Lierse SK (1989/90, first class, 29/14)
  • AA Gent (1990–1995, first class, 153/57)
  • GC Zurich (1995/96, National League A, 13/7)
  • De Graafschap (1996-2001, Eredivisie, 165/56)
  • KV Mechelen (2000/01 and 2002/03, first class 23/4; 2001/02 Tweede class 29/5)

National team

When Viscaal played with AA Gent in the UEFA Cup in 1991/92, bond coach Rinus Michels also noticed him. Viscaal was invited to the national team and made his Oranje debut against Portugal on February 12, 1992 . Just like co-debutants Gaston Taument and Stanley Menzo and Peter Bosz , who each came on their second appearance, Viscaal was substituted on after the break. Viscaal was allowed to play one more practice game before the European Championships in Sweden , when he was substituted on again in the 1-1 draw in France . Michels then appointed him to the squad for the 1992 European Championship . In Sweden Viscall came only to a short stint of ten minutes in the preliminary round match against the selection of the Commonwealth of Independent States . After the EM he got two more chances from the new bond coach Dick Advocaat ; his last game on December 16, 1992, a 3-1 win in World Cup qualification in Turkey , was his only match over 90 minutes. In his five games in the Elftal , he failed to score.

Trainer

At Dilbeek Sport, Viscaal was player coach and youth coordinator for three years. In 2007 Viscaal became the representative of a sports brand. On the side, he played in the amateur league for VK Weerde from Zemst , with whom he was the top scorer in the 2009 eighth league. He was also co-trainer at Germinal Beerschot since the 2008/09 season . When the club fired coach Aimé Antheunis in August 2009 , Viscaal and his co- trainer colleague Joost Desender took over the interim coaching of the first division until Jos Daerden was signed a few days later . Since then, Viscaal has been his coaching assistant.

successes

  • Dutch champion (1987, 1988, with PSV)
  • Swiss Champion (1996, with GC Zurich)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game data ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at Voetbal International
  2. ↑ Historical strafschoppen: Eric Viscaal , website strafschop.nl of April 24, 2009
  3. ↑ Gent places Eric Viscaal speelverbod op , De Volkskrant of July 13, 1996, online version viewed on January 8, 2010
  4. ↑ Vergeten voetballers: Ali Ibrahim, de voetballer die niet kon voetballen , Road to 2010 from January 8, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Viscaal, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Eindhoven