Geert Broeckaert

Geert Broeckaert (Flemish pronunciation: [ɣeːrd ˈbrukaːrt]; born 15 November 1960) is a former Belgian professional football player and a football coach.

Geert Broeckaert

Personal information
Full name	Geert Broeckaert
Date of birth	(1960-11-15) 15 November 1960
Place of birth	Zottegem, Belgium
Position(s)	midfielder
Team information
Current team	RAEC Mons
Youth career
	AA Gent
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1991	Cercle Brugge	336	(18)
	Exc. Mouscron
International career‡
1990	Belgium	1	(0)
Managerial career
	Exc. Mouscron (assistant)
	Exc. Mouscron (youth coach)
	Exc. Mouscron
	Exc. Mouscron (youth coach)
	Exc. Mouscron
	Exc. Mouscron (assistant)
2009	RAEC Mons (assistant)
2009–	RAEC Mons
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 March 2008 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 March 2008

Career

Broeckaert was a youth product of AA Gent, but at the age of 17 he moved to Cercle Brugge after his father had bought off his contract. He would eventually stay 13 years in Bruges and play 375 matches for the green and black team, the second most someone ever has played for Cercle. Jules Verriest holds this record with 492 matches played. Broeckaert also won the Cercle Brugge Pop Poll 3 times. This is a record he shares with Morten Olsen, Josip Weber and Yves Feys.

Position

He used to be a technically strong midfielder.

International career

In 1990, Geert Broeckaert played his only match for Belgium, a 0–2 loss against East Germany. This also was the last ever played match of the East Germany national team.

Coaching career

In 1991, Broeckaert moved to Exc. Mouscron, where he was manager, assistant manager and youth coach. Due to the financial uncertainty at Mouscron, Broeckaert signed for RAEC Mons, to become assistant manager for Rudy Cossey. Franky Vandendriessche made this same move only a bit earlier.

References

• Cerclemuseum.be (in Dutch)

External links

• Geert Broeckaert at the Royal Belgian Football Association