Niki De Cock

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Niki De Cock
Personnel
birthday December 30, 1985
place of birth Lier ,  Belgium
size 166 cm
position Midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1990-1999 KFC Klimop Begijnendijk
1999-2000 KFC Rapide Wezemaal
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2005 KFC Rapide Wezemaal
2005-2007 RSC Anderlecht
2007-2010 Willem II Tilburg
2010-2015 Lierse SK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2004 Belgium U-19 2 0(2)
2001-2002 Belgium U-17 31 (12)
2002-2015 Belgium 58 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2015 Oud-Heverlee Leuven (Co-Tr.)
2015– Oud-Heverlee Leuven
1 Only league games are given.

Niki De Cock (born December 30, 1985 in Lier ) is a former Belgian football player on the position of midfielder . After she was active as a trainer in the youth field during her active career , she has devoted herself more and more to this activity since the end of her career. Among other things, she has also been the trainer of the Oud-Heverlee Leuven women's soccer team since December 2015 .

Player career

Club career

Start of career and first successes with the KFC Rapide Wezemaal

Niki De Cock was born on December 30, 1985 in the city of Lier in the province of Antwerp and began her career as a football player in 1990 and 1991 at the age of five at the amateur club KFC Klimop Begijnendijk in the municipality of Begijnendijk in the smallest province of Flanders , in Flemish Brabant . Here she played through several youth leagues and at the age of 13 came into the youth of the women's football area of ​​the KFC Rapide Wezemaal . After a season in the club's own offspring, she made the leap into the first women's fighting team at the age of 14. In the first season in the adult division, she and her team were runner-up behind KSC Eendracht Aalst and, after a 4-1 final victory over the Sinaai Girls, won the Belgian Women's Football Cup . In the two following seasons 2001/02 and 2002/03, the KFC Rapide Wezemaal finished both times in the final standings in second place behind the Eendracht Aalst. In the last season, she and her team won the cup final against VC Eendracht Aalst 2002, the name of the team at the time, with 8: 1. In 2003/04 De Cock not only celebrated defending their title in the soccer cup, but also became Belgian soccer champions for the first time in their career. The team remained unbeaten in 26 championship games and had 25 wins, one draw and a goal difference of 161: 8 goals.

With the championship title, the KFC Rapide Wezemaal qualified for the UEFA Women's Cup for the first time in history . In the 2004/05 UEFA Women's Cup , the team competed in Group 5A against the teams of ZFK Masinac Classic Niš , Hibernian LFC and ZNK Maksimir . The games of this group were all played in Wezemaal . Rapide Wezemaal brought it after two defeats in the first two games to only one win in the last group game and was eliminated as third in the current tournament. With an outstanding offensive department and an equally strong defense, the team managed to defend their title in the Belgian first class in 2004/05, but were eliminated in the soccer cup in the second round. However, the team was able to prevail in the Belgian soccer supercup for women in 2005 and win this game. In the UEFA Women's Cup 2005/06 , in which the team took part because of the championship title, the team, similar to the previous season, managed to win after two defeats only in the third group game; this time a clear 5-1 victory over the Glasgow City LFC . This meant again the third place in the group and an early exit from the competition. De Cock was no longer involved in these games, as she moved to the women's football department of RSC Anderlecht in the summer .

Eternal second at RSC Anderlecht

Under the long-term coach and pioneer in Belgian women's football Lucien Paulis , the team made it to second place in the 2005/06 final ranking behind De Cock's ex-club, the re-champion KFC Rapide Wezemaal. In the 2005/06 soccer cup there was an abrupt end in the round of 16 against DVC Zuid-West-Vlaanderen . The following season 2006/07 showed a similar picture. With another nine points behind, Anderlecht became runner-up in the top Belgian women's soccer league behind KFC Rapide Wezemaal, which has now celebrated its fourth championship title in a row. In the soccer cup, De Cock and her team were only eliminated in the quarterfinals with 1: 2 against the Sinaai Girls. After that, De Cock moved abroad, whereupon she transferred to the Netherlands for the women's football team of Willem II Tilburg .

As a legionnaire in the neighboring country

In the newly founded Eredivisie , the first official professional league in Dutch women's football, she made it to second place in the table behind the women's football department of AZ Alkmaar with Willem II Tilburg in the 2007/08 final ranking . In the women's KNVB Cup , the midfielder reached the semi-finals with her team and was eliminated 2-0 against eventual cup winners FC Twente Enschede . The 2008/09 season ended Willem II Tilburg in third place, tied with ADO Den Haag , but with the slightly weaker goal difference. In the round of 16 of the KNVB Cup, the Dutch Football Association withdrew all remaining professional teams so that only amateur teams were represented in the further course of the tournament. After a third place in the final table of the 2009/10 season and the elimination on penalties in the semifinals of the KNVB Cup against SC Heerenveen , De Cock returned home.

Career end at Lierse SK

Here she joined the first division club WD Lierse SK and ended the 2010/11 season with the team in third place in the table. In the Belgian women's soccer cup, however, the team around the 1.66 m tall midfielder made it into the final in 2009/10 and was defeated by the Sinaai Girls with a 1: 2. A similar picture brought the following season 2011/12, in which the WD Lierse SK again ranked 3rd in the final table and also just dropped out of this year's cup final; in this case 2: 3 against Standard Liege . In the BeNe League , the first cross-border league of two national sports associations in Europe, the Belgian women's football team , which now only appears under the name Lierse SK , appeared against opponents from Belgium and the Netherlands from the 2012/13 season. The first half of the season in the so-called BeNe League Red graduated from De Cock with the team on the third place, after which they sign up for the subsequent BeNe League A skilled. In this, the team competed against the four best teams in the BeNe League Orange , the four best Dutch representatives, and took sixth place in the table in the final standings. In the 2012/13 Beker van België, Lierse SK was eliminated from the current competition in the first game, the round of 16 against SV Zulte Waregem .

After a league restructuring, the Lierse SK 2013/14 only appeared in a combined league. In this he finished ninth in the table at the end of the season and made it to the semi-finals in the Belgian football cup of the same season, where he was just under the club of Bruges . The third and final edition of the BeNe League ended De Cock with her team in 2014/15 in ninth place in the final ranking, but celebrated a great success in the Beker van België 2014/15. After three victorious games, Lierse SK made it to the cup final, beating Club Brugge 1-0, which meant the team won the first trophy in the history of their existence. De Cock was still in use in all 24 championship games and contributed two hits. Subsequently, she withdrew from her active football career and concentrated more on her work as a football coach , where she had been working with young talent for years.

National team career

For the first time for a youth team of the Royal Belgian Football Association ran De Cock in April 2001. The then 15-year-old player made her international debut in the Belgian U-18 / U-19 national team on April 4, 2001 under coach Chris Helsen in a preparatory game for the qualification for the 2001 U-18 European Women's Football Championship . Subsequently, she came to short appearances in the following three European Championship qualifiers in her home country, but in the end could not qualify with the Belgians for the finals in Norway . In the following May 2001 she was used in a series of friendly internationals and completed her first full-time international match on May 20 in a 2-0 win over her senior colleagues from Scotland . After two more friendly matches against Scotland at the end of August 2001, when she also scored her first international goal, she made her debut for the Belgian U after four days after a game against the Dutch U-19 national, in which she scored another goal -17 juniors . Then she completed a total of seven other U-19 internationals between October 2001 and February 2002, including qualifying games for the 2002 European Championship and the 2002 World Championship , but also a friendly match. During these seven missions, she scored two goals. On May 19, 2002, she played her second and last game for the U-17 national team of Belgium; in a 4-1 win over the Czech age colleagues , she met in a double pack. Under the former Belgian international and later Belgian national coach Anne Noë , who took over the Belgian U-19 national team in summer 2001, De Cock made three appearances at the beginning of October 2002 on the occasion of qualifying for the U-19 European Championship 2003 and was in charge of each of the three games a hit.

About a month before her 17th birthday, De Cock made it to the Belgian senior team for the first time and made her debut in a friendly international match against the Netherlands on November 27, 2002 , when she played Anne Noë, who has been in charge of the Belgian women's national team since 1999 At the beginning of the game and replaced by Natacha Leman from the 82nd minute of the game . In 2003, however, she started again with a series of qualifying games for the 2004 U-19 European Women's Championship and again missed the finals with the Belgians the following year. A few weeks later, in May 2003, it brought De Cock to appearances in two friendly matches and a qualifying match for the 2005 World Cup for the Belgian national team. Then the offensive player completed a strong September 2003, in which she ran up in two friendly internationals, as well as in three qualifying games for the U-19 European Championship in 2004. In the last two European Championship qualifiers against her senior colleagues from the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina , she scored a brace and always one goal out of the game, as well as a penalty goal. She ended the 2003 game year with a World Cup qualifier for the A-team against the Netherlands on November 22nd, when she came on to replace Fanny Kimpe in the 87th minute .

At the latest after the clear 1: 9 defeat against Spain , Belgium's fourth qualifying game for the European Championship 2005, on February 29, 2004, De Cock had made the leap to become a regular in the Belgian women's national team. Between March and April she played four more international matches for the Belgian women, including two friendlies against Switzerland , and two further World Cup qualifying games. Just one day after her last World Cup qualifier, she used the now U-19 national coach Joëlle Piron in another qualifying match for the 2004 U-19 European Championship. In the following four days, De Cock played two more European Championship qualifying games, but again failed to qualify for a final round with the Belgians. De Cock's career in the Belgian U-19 national team ended after 31 international matches. After she only sat on the bench in the subsequent European Championship qualifier at the beginning of May, it was not until the end of September 2004 before Anne Noë put the now 19-year-old back in an international match. In the last European Championship qualifier against Denmark on September 26th, which ended in a 6-0 defeat for Belgium and sealed Belgium's fifth place in the group, De Cock played for the full 90 minutes. After three friendly matches in March 2005, it took more than five months for her next international matches.

The Belgian women's midfielder then played three international matches in the 2005 game year, all of them qualifying for the 2007 World Cup . In the last of the three games she made an own goal in the 91st minute that helped the Spaniards to the 3-2 final after a goal by Vanessa Gimber in minute 92. In 2006 she made a total of four international appearances, including three further World Cup qualifying games, as well as a friendly international match. With the Belgians, she finished last in Group 3 of the World Cup qualification with zero points and again missed a final round. In May 2007 De Cock started qualifying for the 2009 European Championship with the Belgian national women's football team . After the first qualifying game, she completed another friendly international match in August before completing the second qualifying match for the Belgians on October 28, 2007. After they missed the third group game, they came back on February 17, 2008, in a 1-0 win over Wales in the fourth group game back to the team. Until the end of 2008, the midfielder was also used in the remaining four group games of the European Championship qualification. In the end, Belgium finished 4th and failed again to participate in the finals.

In the 2009 game year, De Cock was still used by Anne Noë as a regular for the Belgian women's national football team and came to eight international appearances by the end of the year, of which three were friendlies and five were qualifying games for the 2011 World Cup . In all eight games, De Cock was on the pitch for the full length of the game and was featured in the last international match of the Belgian record player Femke Maes on November 26, 2009 . In 2010 she was used in only three international matches; of this she ran in two of the last three World Cup qualifiers and contributed four goals in the 11-0 victory over Azerbaijan on June 19, 2010. The four goals should remain the only ones in her further career as a Belgian national team player. The 11-0 victory meant at that time the highest victory in the history of the Belgian national football team and at the same time the highest defeat in the history of the Azerbaijani women's national football team; a few days or weeks later, Azerbaijan suffered even greater defeats. Then it took almost a year before De Cock was used again in an international match.

Under the former Belgian professional soccer player Ives Serneels , who only started to coach women's soccer teams the year before, she came on for a brief appearance in a friendly international match against North Korea when she came on the lawn in the 68th minute as a substitute for Berit Stevens . Serneels then used them in another seven national games in 2011; including four friendlies and between September and November 2011 three of five possible games on the occasion of qualifying for the 2013 European Championship . The following year, 2012, she used Serneels in the sixth and seventh European Championship qualifying games and also had them play in a friendly against Finland . After she was unused on the bench in the friendly against North Korea on June 2, she was not considered for any further internationals this year. The Belgians played three more European Championship qualifying matches and finished the qualification in third place in Group 3, two points behind Iceland and four points behind Norway . Under Ives Serneels, the now 27-year-old received less and less attention from 2013. In February and June, she was used in two international matches, but was only used as a substitute. At least in the first of the two games, a 3-2 defeat against the Netherlands, she acted as team captain for one half before being replaced at half-time. After another friendly international match against Austria in August 2013, she was used again as a regular for the full 90 minutes in the first two qualifying games for the 2015 World Cup in September ; in the second game again as captain.

In the third and fourth World Cup qualifying games, De Cock sat on the bench without being used and was subsequently completely removed from the squad of the Belgian women's national team. Only in spring 2015, shortly before the end of her active career, did she make the leap back to the national team; Belgium had meanwhile once again missed one of the finals, as they only finished third in the group's qualification. After she only sat on the bench in preparation for this, she took part with the Belgians in the Cyprus Cup 2015 in March ; For Belgium this was the first participation in the football tournament, which has been held annually since 2008. De Dock completed the first 75 minutes of play in the second group match against South Africa before being substituted. On March 11, 2015, the game for 11th place, De Cock completed their last and 58th international match; in the game against South Korea she acted as a substitute for Cécile De Gernier and was sent to the field in the 80th minute of the game.

Coaching career

After she had already worked as a trainer in the youth field during her active time, she concentrated more on this activity after the end of her career. In December 2015, she also took over the coaching position of the women's soccer team from Oud-Heverlee Leuven, which played in the top Belgian women's soccer league, after having been assistant coach under Patrick Merckx since the end of the 2014/15 season . In the regular championship of the 2015/16 season, the team was far behind in eighth and thus last place in the Super League. In the subsequent relegation play-offs, the team was again far behind in last place, but was allowed to remain in the first class in the following season 2016/17. In 2016/17, the team under De Cock's leadership achieved fifth place in the final ranking of regular time.

successes

Club successes

with the KFC Rapide Wezemaal

with the RSC Anderlecht

  • Runner-up in the top Belgian women's football league: 2005/06 and 2006/07

with Willem II Tilburg

with the Liese SK

  • Belgian Women's Cup finalist: 2010/11 and 2011/12
  • Belgian Women's Football Cup winner: 2014/15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Belgian Football Association names only 56 international matches and does not include your two friendly matches against Ireland and Switzerland in March 2005. See also her profile in the database of the Belgian Football Association.
  2. ↑ Patrick Merckx (OH Leuven) gooit de handdoek na uitschakeling in Belgische beker! (Dutch), accessed January 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME De Cock, Niki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Lier , Belgium