Marc Wuyts (born 12 September 1967) is a Belgian former

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player and coach who is currently youth coordinator at

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. Wuyts started his career with

Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...

where he joined the first team at 19 years of age, playing alongside Luc Nilis and Franky Vercauteren. His first match came against

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in the

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when he was subbed in after 58 minutes to replace

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. Later that season he also played a few minutes in a league match. The season thereafter was supposed to be his breakthrough, however he did not play a single minute. He remained with Anderlecht however and received more playing opportunities in his third season, starting 5 times and coming on from the bench 11 times. That season he also scored his first and only goal for the team. Following that season he moved to

KRC Mechelen K.R.C. Mechelen is a Belgian association football club from Mechelen in the Antwerp province. It is a long-time rival of KV Mechelen. The club's best position ever is a second place in the first division 1951–52. KRC Mechelen also reached th ...

for the 1989-1990 season where he became part of the standard lineup and scored 5 goals. As Mechelen relegated, he moved to

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where again he was a regular under

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. When Heylens was replaced with

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in 1992, Wuyts often ended up on the bench, causing him to move to RWDM in 1993. At RWDM he stayed three seasons until 1996 before moving to Sint-Truiden where he played two seasons before moving to

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, his last team in the First Division. He then joined Second Division team

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in 2000 and immediately helped them to achieve promotion in their first season. He remained in the Second Division however as he rejoined RWDM where he was mostly an unused sub and witnessed the team also achieving promotion in 2001. He stayed one more season with the team at the highest level before retiring. However two seasons later when he was coaching

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in the Belgian Fourth Division, he played one more match to help out his team. Following a long career as a player with several teams in Belgium, Wuyts was less successful as a manager, managing mainly in the lower divisions. In 2008, he was appointed head coach at Oud-Heverlee Leuven in the

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, however following bad results he was sacked in March 2009 and has not managed in the top levels since.

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* 1967 births Living people Belgian footballers Belgian football managers R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.R.C. Mechelen players R. Charleroi S.C. players R.W.D. Molenbeek players Sint-Truidense V.V. players R.E. Mouscron players R.A.A. Louviéroise players R.W.D. Molenbeek managers Oud-Heverlee Leuven managers Footballers from Brussels Association football forwards {{Belgium-footy-forward-stub