Nico Van Kerckhoven

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Nico Van Kerckhoven
Personnel
Surname Nicolas Van Kerckhoven
birthday December 14, 1970
place of birth Lier ,  Belgium
size 190 cm
position Forward
left full-back Central
defender
Juniors
Years station
1978-1988 FC Lint
1988-1989 Lierse SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1998 Lierse SK 241 (28)
1998-2004 FC Schalke 04 134 0(5)
2004-2005 Bor. Mönchengladbach 19 0(0)
2005-2010 KVC Westerlo 140 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989 Belgium U-19 4 0(0)
1996-2002 Belgium 42 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011–2012 Lierse SK (Youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Nicolas "Nico" Van Kerckhoven (born December 14, 1970 in Lier , Antwerp Province , Flanders ) is a former Belgian soccer player who was under contract with Schalke 04 in Germany for six years and with Borussia Mönchengladbach for one year . He played 42 international matches for the Belgian national team . At the beginning of his career, the trained striker mostly played in offensive positions, so initially he was mainly active as a striker and a little later on the left wing (offensive as well as defensive); in the further course of his career he was then used more and more frequently in central defense.

Player career

society

Before Nico Van Kerckhoven moved to the German Bundesliga club Schalke 04 for the 1998/1999 season, he played for the Belgian first division Lierse SK for ten years . With the Liers team he became Belgian champion in 1997 and so Van Kerckhoven was allowed to compete in the Champions League with his club in the following season after Anorthosis Famagusta had been eliminated in qualifying . However, the Belgians were the last in their group to be eliminated with only one point - more or less without a chance. Van Kerckhoven won the DFB Cup with the Knappen in 2001 . A year later he was even able to defend the title with the Royal Blues. Left-footed Van Kerckhoven was in the Gelsenkirchen team's starting line-up in both finals. After becoming runner-up in 2001, Van Kerckhoven was allowed to compete again in the European premier class. However, this guest appearance was just as unsuccessful as the first: Schalke 04 finished last in the group.

After his contract with Schalke expired at the end of June 2004, the ex-international joined league rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach for one year. During this season he fought under Dick Advocaat together with compatriot Joris Van Hout and the foal elf against relegation. In the end, they achieved relegation with 15th place. Van Kerckhoven and VfL had three different head coaches this one season. In spring 2005 he signed a two-year contract with the Belgian first division club KVC Westerlo for the coming season. Although he wanted to end his active career in his home country during these two years, it ended up being five. He played his last game at the age of 39 on April 17, 2010 against Cercle Bruges. Westerlo won the game 4-1 and Van Kerckhoven scored a penalty to make it 3-0. In mid-June 2010 he played his last game as an active player in Lint , where it all began more than 31 years earlier, and was said goodbye to much applause.

National team

Van Kerckhoven made his debut in the Belgian national team on May 29, 1996 in a 2-2 draw against Italy. He played for his country at the World Championships in 1998 (one use) and 2002 (two uses). At the European Championship , which took place in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2000, he was on the field in all three games of his selection. His last game for the Red Devils was on June 17, 2002 at the World Cup in Japan and South Korea in a 2-0 draw against Brazil, with which Belgium was eliminated in the round of 16.

Coaching career

After taking a year off from football, Van Kerckhoven was appointed as a youth coach at Lierse SK in the summer of 2011 , after talks between Van Kerckhoven and Herman Helleputte and Ives Serneels had already taken place , which convinced him to take this career step . In an interview at the same time, he said that he was in possession of a UEFA B license at the moment, but was already looking towards the UEFA A license. Furthermore, the multiple Belgian ex-international is still active as a futsal player at a club belonging to the Koninklijke Vlaamse Voetbalbond in Wijnegem , with whom he was champion three times in a row and made it to the second division. Van Kerckhoven was finally under contract until 2012; thereafter, however, this was not extended any further.

Private

Nico Van Kerckhoven comes from a football-loving family; his father Frans was active as a referee at the Koninklijk Katholiek Vlaams Sportverbond for over 32 years and also directed his son's farewell game.

His son Sander currently plays (as of the 2014/15 season) in the Lierse SK U-16 team.

successes

  • 2 × DFB Cup winners: 2001 & 2002
  • Belgian champion 1997
  • Belgian Supercup winner 1997
  • 2 × World Cup participants: 1998 & 2002
  • EM participant 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dick Advocaat traint Van Kerckhoven en Van Hout (Dutch), accessed on September 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Farewell ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / torfabrik.de
  3. ↑ a b 'VEEL THANKS TO VOOR ALLES' - VOETBAL 1st CLASS 39-year-old Nico Van Kerckhoven krijgt in Lint een afscheid in stijl (Dutch), accessed on September 10, 2014
  4. ↑ a b c Nico Van Kerckhoven starts as jeugdtrainer van Lierse aan tweede carrière: 'Ik wilde iets nieuws' (Dutch), accessed on September 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Nico Van Kerckhoven on the official website of Lierse SK ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch), accessed September 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lierse.com
  6. ↑ U-16 squad of Lierse SK ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch), accessed September 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lierse.com
personal data
SURNAME Van Kerckhoven, Nico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Kerckhoven, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lier , Belgium