Eric Gerets

Eric Gerets

Personal information
Full name	Eric Maria Gerets
Date of birth	18 May 1954 (1954-05-18) (age 57)
Place of birth	Rekem, Belgium
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	Morocco (Manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	AA Rekem	?	(?)
1971–1983	Standard de Liège	318	(23)
1983–1984	AC Milan	13	(1)
1984–1985	MVV Maastricht	12	(0)
1985–1992	PSV Eindhoven	200	(8)
National team
1975–1991	Belgium	86	(2)
Teams managed
1992–1994	RFC de Liège
1994–1997	Lierse SK
1997–1999	Club Brugge
1999–2002	PSV Eindhoven
2002–2004	FC Kaiserslautern
2004–2005	VfL Wolfsburg
2005–2007	Galatasaray SK
2007–2009	Olympique de Marseille
2009–2010	Al-Hilal
2010–	Morocco
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Eric Maria Gerets (born 18 May 1954 in Rekem, Belgium) is a retired Belgian football defender. He is currently the coach of the Morocco national football team . He is best known in football for his advocacy of systems thinking.

Contents 1 Career 2 Coaching career 2.1 International goals 3 Managerial statistics 4 Player Honours 5 Coach Honours 6 References 7 External links

Career

Gerets played for Rekem, Standard de Liège, AC Milan, MVV Maastricht and PSV Eindhoven, winning among others the 1987–88 European Cup, two Belgian championships and six Dutch championships. Although he was a defender, he was well known for a particular attacking skill: long distance throw-ins. He is the third most capped player for the Belgium national football team, with 86 appearances and 2 goals. In the First Round game in Italia 90 against Uruguay, which Belgium won 3–1, Gerets was sent off.

Coaching career

As a manager, Gerets worked successively for FC Liège, Lierse SK, Club Brugge, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and VfL Wolfsburg before joining Galatasaray SK at the end of the 2004–05 season. In the season 1996–97, he won the Belgian championships with Lierse, reprising the feat in the season 1998–1999 with Club Brugge. He also won the Dutch championships twice (1999–2000 and 2000–01) with PSV Eindhoven. In the season 2005–06, Gerets won the Turkish Premier Super League with Galatasaray SK. In May 2007, he left the club, and on 25 September, became Olympique de Marseille's coach. However, he failed to make Marseille champion in the 2007–08 season.

In his first year at Olympique de Marseille in 2007, he managed to get the team from the bottom of the league up to finish their 07–08 season as number three.

On 29 April 2009, he confirmed that he will not be in charge of Marseille after the summer when his contract expires.^[1] On 26 May 2009 signed a contract to take over as head coach of Al-Hilal for two years for an annual fee of 1.8 million €uro.^[2] On 6 July, he signed a four-year contract with Morocco. he would do the job part-time until he completed the Asian Champions League campaign with club Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia but stranded in the semi-finals. [1]

International goals

Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	15 June 1980	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan	Spain	1–0	2–1	Euro 1980 qualifier
2.	14 October 1986	Stade Municipal, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1–0	6–0	Euro 1988 qualifier

Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Liège		1992	1994	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	!—
Lierse		1994	1997	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	!—
Club Brugge		1997	1999	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	!—
PSV Eindhoven		1999	2002	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	&100000000000000000000000	!—
Kaiserslautern		2002	2004	&1000000000000007000000070	&1000000000000002100000021	&1000000000000001600000016	&1000000000000003300000033	&1000000000000003000000030.00
Wolfsburg		2004	2005	&1000000000000003500000035	&1000000000000001600000016	&100000000000000030000003	&1000000000000001600000016	&1000000000000004571000045.71
Galatasaray		2005	2007	&1000000000000008900000089	&1000000000000004900000049	&1000000000000002100000021	&1000000000000001900000019	&1000000000000005506000055.06
Marseille		2007	2009	&1000000000000009600000096	&1000000000000004600000046	&1000000000000002300000023	&1000000000000002700000027	&1000000000000004792000047.92
Al-Hilal		2009	2010	&1000000000000003800000038	&1000000000000002900000029	&100000000000000050000005	&100000000000000040000004	&1000000000000007631999976.32
Morocco		2010	Present	&1000000000000001100000011	&100000000000000070000007	&100000000000000030000003	&100000000000000010000001	&1000000000000006364000063.64
Total				&10000000000000320000000320	&10000000000000140000000140	&1000000000000006400000064	&1000000000000009600000096	&1000000000000004375000043.75

– Last update As of 9 September 2011 (2011 -09-09)^[update]

Player Honours

• With Standard de Liege
  • Belgian League: 1982, 1983
  • Belgian Cup: 1981
  • Belgian Super Cup: 1981

• With PSV Eindhoven
  • Dutch League: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992
  • Dutch Cup: 1988, 1989, 1990
  • UEFA Champions League: 1988

Coach Honours

• With Lierse SK
  • Belgian League: 1997

• With Club Brugge KV
  • Belgian League: 1998
  • Belgian Super Cup: 1998

• With PSV Eindhoven
  • Dutch League: 2000, 2001
  • Dutch Super Cup: 2000, 2001

• With Galatasaray
  • Turkcell Süper Lig: 2006

• With Al-Hilal
  • Saudi Professional League: 2010
  • Crown Prince Cup: 2010

References

External links

• Eric Gerets – FIFA competition record
• CV Eric Gerets

Belgian Golden Shoe Winners 1954: Coppens 1955: Van Brandt 1956: Mees 1957: Jurion 1958: Storme 1959: Olieslagers 1960: Van Himst 1961: Van Himst 1962: Jurion 1963: Nicolay 1964: Puis 1965: Van Himst 1966: Van Moer 1967: Boone 1968: Polleunis 1969: Van Moer 1970: Van Moer 1971: Vandendaele 1972: Piot 1973: Martens 1974: Van Himst 1975: Boskamp 1976: Rensenbrink 1977: Cools 1978: Pfaff 1979: Janssens 1980: Ceulemans 1981: Vandenbergh 1982: Gerets 1983: Vercauteren 1984: Scifo 1985: Ceulemans 1986: Ceulemans 1987: Preud'homme 1988: Clijsters 1989: Preud'homme 1990: Van der Elst 1991: Degryse 1992: Albert 1993: Zetterberg 1994: De Bilde 1995: Okon 1996: Van der Elst 1997: Zetterberg 1998: Strupar 1999: Staelens 2000: Koller 2001: Sonck 2002: Simons 2003: Aruna 2004: Kompany 2005: Conceição 2006: Boussoufa 2007: Defour 2008: Witsel 2009: Jovanović 2010: Boussoufa

Ligue 1 Manager of the Year 1994: Fernández 1995: Smerecki 1996: Roux 1997: Tigana 1998: Leclercq 1999: Baup 2000: Puel 2001: Denoueix 2002: Müller 2003: Lacombe 2004: Deschamps 2005: Le Guen 2006: Puel 2007: Houllier 2008: Blanc 2009: Gerets 2010: Fernandez 2011: Garcia

Eric Gerets – International tournaments Belgium squad – UEFA Euro 1980 Runners-up 1 Custers 2 Gerets 3 L. Millecamps 4 Meeuws 5 Renquin 6 Cools (c) 7 Vandereycken 8 Van Moer 9 Van der Elst 10 Vandenbergh 11 Ceulemans 12 Pfaff 13 M. Martens 14 Plessers 15 Verheyen 16 M. Millecamps 17 Mommens 18 Dardenne 19 Wellens 20 Preud'homme 21 Heyligen 22 R. Martens Coach: Thys Belgium squad – 1982 FIFA World Cup 1 Pfaff 2 Gerets (c) 3 L. Millecamps 4 Meeuws 5 Renquin 6 Vercauteren 7 Vandereycken 8 Van Moer 9 Vandenbergh 10 Coeck 11 Ceulemans 12 Custers 13 Van der Elst 14 Baecke 15 De Schrijver 16 Plessers 17 Verheyen 18 Mommens 19 M. Millecamps 20 Vandersmissen 21 Czerniatynski 22 Munaron Coach: Thys Belgium squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place 1 Pfaff 2 Gerets 3 F. Van der Elst 4 De Wolf 5 Renquin 6 Vercauteren 7 Vandereycken 8 Scifo 9 Vandenbergh 10 Desmet 11 Ceulemans (c) 12 Munaron 13 Grün 14 Clijsters 15 L. Van der Elst 16 Claesen 17 Mommens 18 Veyt 19 Broos 20 Bodart 21 Demol 22 Vervoort Coach: Thys Belgium squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup 1 Preud'homme 2 Gerets (c) 3 Albert 4 Clijsters 5 Versavel 6 Emmers 7 Demol 8 Van der Elst 9 Degryse 10 Scifo 11 Ceulemans 12 Bodart 13 Grün 14 Claesen 15 De Sart 16 De Wolf 17 Plovie 18 Staelens 19 Van Der Linden 20 De Wilde 21 Wilmots 22 Vervoort Coach: Thys

Eric Gerets – Managerial positions Lierse S.K. – managers Grumeau (1920–30) Turnhauer (1930–36) Mály (1936–39) De Preter (1939–44) Kiebooms (1944–46) Berry (1946–48) Kiebooms (1948–49) D'Hollander (1949–53) Tarkany (1953–55) D'Hollander (1955–61) De Vos (1961) De Graaf (1961–62) Meert (1962–63) Van den Bergh (1963–70) Spurgeon (1970) Willems (1970–71) de Munck (1971) Baeten (1971–72) Bedl (1972–73) Willems (1973) Baeten (1973–74) Croon (1974–75) Bedl (1975–77) Van den Bergh (1977–79) Baeten (1979) Künnecke (1979–81) Bedl (1981–82) Croon (1982–83) Baeten (1983–84) Boskamp (1984–87) Vets (1987) Meeuws (1987–88) Davidovic (1988–89) Hulshoff (1989–91) Helleputte (1991–94) Gerets (1994–97) Daerden (1997–98) Braeckmans (1998–99) Meeuws (1999–2001) Van Acker (2001–02) Ferrera (2002–04) Put (2004–05) Trost (2005–06) Rekdal (2006–07) Helleputte (2007–10) Anthuenis (2010) Van Meir (2010–11) Sollied (2011) Janssens (2011–) Club Brugge K.V. – managers Goetinck (1930–33) Delbeke (1933–34) Volckaert (1934–36) Schrenk (1936–38) De Veen (1938–39) Delbeke (1939–45) Versyp (1945–50) Kennedy (1950–51) Schavy (1951–57) Höfling (1957–63) Schwanner (1963) Dekens (1963–65) Dupal (1965–67) Höfling (1967–68) Pavić (1968–69) de Munck (1969–71) Canjels (1971–73) De Wit (1973–74) Happel (1974–78) Béres (1978–79) Bollen (1979) Grijzenhout (1979–80) Gress (1980–81) Kohn (1981) Coppens (1981) Mertens (1981–82) Keßler (1982–84) Houwaart (1984–89) Leekens (1989–91) Broos (1991–97) Gerets (1997–99) Verheyen (1999–00) Sollied (2000–05) Ceulemans (2005–06) Ferrera (2006–07) Janevski (2007) Mathijssen (2007–09) Koster (2009–11) Daum (2011–) PSV Eindhoven – managers Meijnders (1914–16) Buitenweg (1916–21) Vos (1921–22) Leavy (1922–26) Hoogstede (1926–27) Klein (1928–28) Klein Wentink (1928–29) Hall (1929–35) Wadsworth (1935–38) van den Broek (1938–42) Delsen (1942–45) Wadsworth (1945–51) Topping (1951–52) de Leeuw (1952–56) Broćić (1956–57) Hardwick (1957–58) van Dijke (1958–59) Broćić (1959–60) Binder (1960–62) Appel (1962–67) Nikolic (1967–68) Blokland (1968) Linder (1968–72) Rijvers (1972–80) Reker (1980) Libregts (1980–83) Reker (1983–86) Kraaij sr. (1986–87) Hiddink (1987–90) Robson (1990–92) Westerhof (1992–93) de Mos (1993–94) Rijvers (1994) Advocaat (1994–1998) Robson (1998–99) Gerets (1999–2002) Hiddink (2002–06) Koeman (2006–07) Wouters (2007) Vergoossen (2008) Stevens (2008–09) Lodeweges (2009) Rutten (2009–) 1. FC Kaiserslautern – managers Brocker (1963–65) Liebrich (1965) Lóránt (1965–67) Knefler (1967–68) Piechaczek (1968–69) Weise (1969) Lóránt (1969–71) Weise (1971–73) Ribbeck (1973–78) Feldkamp (1978–82) Kröner (1982–83) Diehl (1983) Weise (1983) Diehl (1983) Krafft (1983–85) Bongartz (1985–87) Stabel (1987–89) Roggensack (1989–90) Feldkamp (1990–92) Zobel (1992–93) Rausch (1993–96) Krautzun (1996) Rehhagel (1996–2000) Brehme (2000–02) Emig (2002) Gerets (2002–04) Jara (2004–05) Moser (2005) Henke (2005) Wolf (2005–07) Funkel (2007) Rekdal (2007–08) Šašić (2008–09) Schwartz (2009) Kurz (2009–) VfL Wolfsburg – managers Lachner (1954–55) Sontow (1955–56) Kretschmann (1956–57) Lachner (1957) Risse (1957–58) Farkaszinski (1958–59) Lachner (1963–66) Farkaszinski (1966–75) Schollmeyer (1975) Kietzmann (1975) Momirski (1976–78) Farkaszinski (1978) van Meteren (1978–79) Kemmer (1979–83) Farkaszinski (1983–84) Krause (1984–88) Hrubesch (1988–89) Menzel (1989–91) Erkenbrecher (1991–93) Winter (1993) Krautzun (1993–95) Roggensack (1995) Reimann (1995–98) Erkenbrecher (1998) Wolf (1998–2003) Röber (2003–04) Gerets (2004–05) Fach (2005–06) Augenthaler (2006–07) Magath (2007–09) Veh (2009–10) Köstner (2010) McClaren (2010–11) Littbarski (2011) Magath (2011–) Galatasaray S.K. – managers Nikolof (1905–06) Serdaroğlu (1907) Armitage (1908–11) Serdaroğlu (1911–14) Sadi Bey (1915) Sami Yen (1916–17) Şahin (1919–21) Giray (1922–23) Kabalski (1923–24) Hunter (1924–28) Limbeck (1930–31) Pagnam (1931–32) Puddefoot (1933–36) Baar (1937) Szabó (1938) Tandler (1938–39) Hayman (1939) Zaharczuk (1939–40) Begget (1940–45) Dimitriyadis (1945–46) Swenk (1947) Molloy (1947–49) Lochhead (1950–52) Kılıç (1952–53) Székely (1953–54) Kılıç (1954–57) Dick (1957–58) Remondini (1959–61) Kılıç (1961–63) Özarı (1963–64) Kılıç (1964–67) Aykaç (1967–68) Kaloperović (1968–70) Oktay (1970) Özarı (1970–71) Birch (1971–74) Mansell (1974–75) Howe (1975–76) Allison (1976–77) Demircan (1977–78) Özarı (1978–79) Şeren (1979–80) Birch (1980–82) Sümer (1982–83) Ivić (1983–84) Derwall (1984–87) Denizli (1987–89) Held (1989–90) Denizli (1990–92) Feldkamp (1992–93) Hollmann (1993–94) Saftig (1994–95) Erkasap (1995) Souness (1995–96) Terim (1996–2000) Lucescu (2000–02) Terim (2002–04) Hagi (2004–05) Gerets (2005–07) Feldkamp (2007–08) Güler (2008) Skibbe (2008–09) Korkmaz (2009) Rijkaard (2009–10) Hagi (2010–11) Ünder (2011) Terim (2011–) Olympique de Marseille – managers Farmer (1923–24) Gibson (1925–29) Tanguy (1929–32) Bell (1932–33) Dittrich (1933–35) Eisenhoffer (1935–38) Kohut & Gascard (1938–39) Eisenhoffer (1939–41) Gascard (1941) Seitz (1942) Blanc & Gonzales (1942–43) Henric (1943–44) Gonzales (1944) Wartel (1944–46) Dewaquez (1946–47) Zilisy (1947–49) Jordan (1949–50) Roessler (1950–54) Rolhion (1954–56) Robin (1956–58) Zilisy (1958) Maurer (1958–59) Troupel (1959–62) Glória (1962) Penverne (1962) Miró (1962–63) Robin (1963–64) Zatelli (1964–66) Domergue (1966–68) Zatelli (1968–70) Leduc (1971–72) Zatelli (1972) Linder (1972–73) Zatelli (1973) Bonnel (1973) Riera (1973–74) Zvunka (1974–76) Arribas (1976–77) Zvunka (1977) Marković (1977–78) Zvunka (1978–80) Robin (1980) Batteux (1980–81) Gransart (1981–84) Cahuzac (1984–85) Olarević (1985–86) Banide (1986–88) Gili (1988–90) Beckenbauer (1990–91) Goethals (1991) Ivić (1991) Goethals (1991–92) Fernandez (1992) Goethals (1992–93) Bourrier (1993–94) Gili (1994) Stambouli & Peruzović (1995) Stambouli (1995) Gili (1995–97) Courbis (1997–99) Casoni (1999–2000) Abel Braga (2000) Emon & Galtier (2000) Clemente (2000–01) Ivić (2001) Anigo (2001) Lévy & Skoblar (2001) Vujović (2001) Emon (2001–02) Perrin (2002–04) Anigo (2004) Emon (2004) Troussier (2004–05) Fernandez (2005–06) Emon (2006–07) Gerets (2007–09) Deschamps (2009–) Morocco national football team – managers Benbarek (1957) Khamiri (1959) Lokhrimi (1959) Benbarek (1960) Firoud (1961) Massoun & Antitif (1961–63) Massoun & Mahjoub (1963–67) Mahjoub (1967) Cluseau & Settati (1969) Settati (1969) Vidinić (1970) Barinaga (1971–72) Settati (1972) Mahjoub (1972–73) Mărdărescu (1974–78) El-Ammari (1978) Cluseau (1979) Fontaine (1979–81) Jebrane & Hamidouch (1980) Hamidouch (1981) El-Ammari (1982) Valente (1983) Faria (1983–88) Valente (1988–89) Angelillo (1989–90) Blinda (1990) El-Naciri (1990) Olk (1990–92) Louzani (1992) Blinda (1993–94) Lamari (1994) Gilson (1995) Michel (1995–2000) Kasperczak (1999–2000) Madih (2001) Coelho (2002) Zaki (2002–05) Troussier (2005) Fakhir (2005–07) Michel (2007–08) Jamal (2008) Lemerre (2008–09) Moumen (2009–10) Gerets (2010–)

Persondata
Name	Gerets, Eric
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	18 May 1954
Place of birth	Rekem, Belgium
Date of death
Place of death