John Van Crombruggen

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John Van Crombruggen (* 1946 / 1947 ) is a Belgian basketball coach .

career

Van Crombruggen began his coaching career in 1976 at Racing Mechelen . In the late 1970s / early 1980s he was the coach of Rimelago Aarschot.

Van Crombruggen trained RAS Maccabi in Brussels in the 1980s , and Castors Braine in the early 1990s.

In 1983, 1984 and 1992 Van Crombruggen was named Belgium's basketball coach of the year. During the 1994/95 season he switched to coaching the then German second division club SG FT / MTV Braunschweig and stayed until the end of the season.

During the 1996/97 season, he took over as the successor to Peter Krüsmann as coach of the German Bundesliga club Brandt Hagen and remained in this position until the end of the same game year. During his tenure in Hagen, he also looked after the team in the European Cup, where Brandt lost to Real Madrid on January 15, 1997, in what was to be the last game in a European competition in the club's history.

In the 1997/98 season Van Crombruggen was back in his Belgian homeland on the sidelines and looked after Leuven, in January 1998 it came to a separation.

In the spring of 1999 he went back to Germany and Braunschweig, he was hired by the Bundesliga club as head coach. With the team he won the league cup. In October 2000, following a 55:97 defeat by Giessen, he resigned as a Braunschweig coach after receiving threatening phone calls the previous day.

Van Crombruggen then moved to TEC Liège in Belgium in February 2001 and coached the first division club until the end of the 2001/02 season. In the 2004/05 season, BBC Brussels became champions of the Belgian second division under his leadership, and from 2006 he coached another Belgian second division team, the Gent Dragons.

In May 2018 he took over the coaching of the women's team of Royal IV Brussels in the Liga 2e Régional, after leading the women of Basket Lummen to the championship title in the 1 Landelijke in the 2017/18 season. He had been with Lummen since 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JOHN VAN CROMBRUGGEN . March 14, 2001 ( knack.be [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  2. ^ Pearl basket. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.lesoir.be/archive/recup/%252Funion-castors-braine-le-retour-de-voituron-_t-19980320-Z0F0DV.html
  4. ↑ http://www.sport.be/fr/basketball/article.html?Article_ID=333237&v=08082017
  5. ^ A b Henning Brand: John Van Crombruggen: Twice "Fireman" . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 131 .
  6. ↑ basketkruesmann | Statistics . In: basketkruesmann . ( wixsite.com [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  7. ↑ The last appearance in the European Cup . ( wp.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Sunday March 7th, 1999, 10:56 am: Basketball: Berlin and Bonn are fighting for the top . In: MOPO.de . ( mopo.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  9. ↑ RP ONLINE: Basketball: Lightning transfer at Telekom Baskets: Van Crombruggen throws in the towel in Braunschweig. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ La Libre.be: Yvan Fassotte se retire . ( lalibre.be [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  12. ↑ rwd: “Nieuwe impuls met John Van Crombruggen” . In: Het Nieuwsblad . ( nieuwsblad.be [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Johnny PEETERS: Coach Van Crombruggen en sterkhouder Lorent trekken deur bij Lummen eighth close . ( hbvl.be [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  14. ^ Basket guillemots. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Van Crombruggen, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century