Philippe De Ridder (born 6 August 1964 in
Brussels
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, Belgium) is a Belgian coach, football administrator and a former football player. He is currently the co-owner and CEO of Chevsa Sports Marketing & Management, a
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
based sports marketing and management agency. His latest assignment was serving as the International Football Development Manager for Spanish Club,
CD Marino
Club Deportivo Marino Playa de Las Américas, known simply as CD Marino, is a semi-professional Spanish football club based in Playa de Las Américas, Tenerife, in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Founded in 1933, the club hails f ...
. De Ridder is highly regarded for his specialty in discovering young, unknown talent, and his ability to revive teams from troublesome situation. He has discovered a lot of new players in India and is also known for giving a fresh start to older players with the 360 method like
Bhaichung Bhutia
Bhaichung Bhutia (born 15 December 1976), also spelled as Baichung Bhutia, is an Indian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Bhutia is considered as the torchbearer of Indian football in the international arena. He is often ...
,
Harmanjot Khabra
Harmanjot Singh Khabra (born 18 December 1988) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters and the India national team. A versatile player, Khabra has played in multiple positions, ...
and
Mehtab Hossain
Mehtab Hossain (born 5 September 1985) is an Indian professional footballer and coach who last played for Madan Maharaj as a defensive midfielder.
During his career, Hossain has played for both of the Kolkata football giants, Mohun Bagan and ...
. He is known for identifying talents at a very young age, like
Sandesh Jhingan
Sandesh Jhingan (born 21 July 1993) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Indian Super League club Bengaluru and the Indian national team.
He won the AIFF emerging player of the year award in 2014 and made ...
and
Lalruatthara
Lalruatthara (born 7 January 1995) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for I-League club Inter Kashi.
Club career Early career
Born in Mizoram, Lalruatthara attended trials for the Chandigarh Football Academy in 200 ...
. Jhingan has gone on to become one of the most expensive players in Indian football, while Lalruatthara has won accolades for being the emerging player of the year 2018. Besides being a football coach, he is an eminent art director, designer and musician.
Playing career
Club
De Ridderplayed his professional football career in Belgium with the club
RWD Molenbeek
R.W.D. Molenbeek, short for Racing White Daring Molenbeek, was a Belgian football club founded in 1909 as White Star Club de Bruxelles. It then became a member of the Belgian Football Association later the same year as White Star Athletic Club ...
and he was part of the team which became Division 2 champions in 1985. He then played for
RWD Molenbeek
R.W.D. Molenbeek, short for Racing White Daring Molenbeek, was a Belgian football club founded in 1909 as White Star Club de Bruxelles. It then became a member of the Belgian Football Association later the same year as White Star Athletic Club ...
in the Belgium Premiership
the next season. In 1985, a serious injury to both his knee and ankle stalled his playing career and forced him to retire.
International
He also represented Belgium in the Under 12 to Under 20 stage. He has also featured in the Under 18 European Championship for his country. He was captain of the Belgian national youth team where he played alongside several World Cup winners like
Patrick Vervoort
Patrick Felix Vervoort (born 17 January 1965 in Beerse) is a retired Belgian footballer.
The left midfielder has played for a number of clubs, including Beerschot, Anderlecht and Standard Liège in Belgium, Ascoli in Italy's Serie A, as we ...
,
Marc Degryse
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He amassed Belgian First Division A totals of 120 games and 11 goals over the course of seve ...](_blank)
and
Filip De Wilde
Filip Alfons De Wilde (born 5 July 1964) is a former Belgian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
During a 23-year professional career he played mainly with Anderlecht, appearing in nearly 400 official games in two different spe ...
.
Coaching career
After finishing his short playing career, De Ridder started coaching. He got his UEFA B license coaching degree in Belgium and then began his coaching career in the US. He then moved on to Brazil, Spain and Argentina, where he got his lessons in first-team coaching.
East Bengal
In 2005, he became the manager of one of the most successful clubs in Indian football,
East Bengal
ur,
, common_name = East Bengal
, status = Province of the Dominion of Pakistan
, p1 = Bengal Presidency
, flag_p1 = Flag of British Bengal.svg
, s1 = East ...
, in mid-season. Under his coaching, East Bengal became the runners-up of the now defunct
National Football League
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. His most notable event while with East Bengal was the victory against arch rivals
Mohun Bagan
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is an Indian professional sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1889, its football section is one of the oldest in India and Asia. The club is most notable for its victory over East Yorkshire Regiment ...
in the biggest derby in Indian Football in front of 90,000 people. East Bengal then won the Super Cup in a one match face-off tournament against the
2005-06 NFL Premier Division champions,
Mahindra United
Mahindra United Football Club (formerly known as Mahindra & Mahindra) was an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Founded in 1962, the club competed in the I-League, then top tier of Indian football league system, befo ...
, beating them by a solitary goal.
Chirag United
After the 2005–06 season, De Ridder signed with
Chirag United (now Prayag United) after resigning with East Bengal. His stay was short, as De Ridder could not qualify Chirag for the
I-League 2nd Division
I-League 2, previously known as I-League 2nd Division and officially known as or Hero I-League 2 (for sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp), is an Indian men's professional football league. It is the 3rd tier of Indian football, behind Indian ...
.
Back to East Bengal
In 2009, he signed with East Bengal again during the mid phase of the
I-League
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, when East Bengal was having the most disastrous season of their entire history. De Ridder then patched up the team from their miserable condition and went into the national level tournament
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*Federation Cup ...
as underdogs. De Ridder and his men defied all odds to return as champions of the tournament. East Bengal also defeated their arch rivals, Mohun Bagan, 2–0 on the way. This also provided East Bengal a ticket for the
AFC Cup
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, a second-tier club tournament of the Asian Continent. He then left the club again due to complications with the board.
United Sikkim
On 3 December 2011, De Ridder was confirmed as manager of
I-League 2nd Division
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club
United Sikkim
United Sikkim Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Gangtok, Sikkim. Founded in 2011, the club usually competed in the Sikkim Premier Division League. United Sikkim is the only club from Sikkim to have played in the I- ...
. Under his coaching, United Sikkim F.C. became the champions of
I-League 2nd Division
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and were promoted to play in
I-League
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for the 2012–13 season.
After being manager of the team for some part of
I-League
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, De Ridder decided to move to a different role of football director for
United Sikkim
United Sikkim Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Gangtok, Sikkim. Founded in 2011, the club usually competed in the Sikkim Premier Division League. United Sikkim is the only club from Sikkim to have played in the I- ...
.
Reitlang FC
On November, 2013, De Ridder was confirmed as the Technical Director cum player of the club
Mizoram premier league
The Mizoram Premier League (also known as the Zote Honda Mizoram Premier League for sponsorship ties) is the highest state-level football league in Mizoram, India. On a national scale, the state's top tier league is the 4th tier of Indian footb ...
. The team was in a disastrous last position in the Mizoram Premier League with only 3 points after 7 matches. Under his coaching, Reitlang FC was saved from relegation with a total of 13 points, taking 10 points in the remaining 7 matches. Making several appearances as a player during the league, he became also the oldest player ever to have participated in the Mizoram Premier league.
FC Adeli Batumi (GEORGIA)
His next assignment took him to Georgia to work with FC Adeli Batumi. The club was battling relegation and was suffering from financial difficulties. He brought in new players and also made a historical transfer by bringing in an Indian player for the first time,
Anupam Sarkar from
FC Pune City
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to slot into an ailing defense. He also chipped in with valuable appearances in the defensive midfield whenever needed. The team shaped on well and for the first match against the league leaders who had beat them 6–0 in the first leg, earned a well deserved 1–1 draw. In that match, Batumi led by 1 goal,
but conceded the lead due to an unmindful individual mistake in the closing few moments of the game. Batumi did very well, but the championship was cut down at the end due to some suspicion of abnormal betting movements in the competition (none that involved his team though).
Dayu FC
Ridder accepted the challenge of taking the role of Technical Director of Dayu FC in Beijing China - a very popular club created by a former star of Chinese football. While with Dayu, de Ridder started with setting up the bases of excellence through developing the youth academy players with the 360 CFT method. Progress was evident and immediate.
Organizing international exposure for players and producing attractive and efficient football players were the quintessential objectives. After 12 months the club was bought by investors from inner Mongolia. de Ridder continued to develop the team and the youth system working from the region of Hohhot.
Player development
Throughout his career, De Ridder is known to work with players, developing their skill sets by applying the 360 CFT method. He has worked and discovered a lot of new players during his tenure in India.
East Bengal
During his two stints with Indian football giant East Bengal, De Ridder discovered footballers like
Jayanta Sen
Jayanta Sen is an Indian footballer who is currently playing for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League as a midfielder.
Career
Jayanta was born in Behala, Kolkata. He started his career with FCI for a year before joining Tollygunge Agragami in ...
,
Anupam Sarkar,
Budhiram Tudu
Budhiram Tudu (born 3 August 1991 in Kolkata, West Bengal) is an Indian football player who currently plays for I-League club Mohammedan.
Club career
East Bengal
Born in Pandua, West Bengal, after spending a season playing for the Kingfish ...
etc. He also worked with senior players like Mehtab Hossain, Bhaichung Bhutia and Harmanjot Khabra to transform and develop their playing abilities. It has to be noted that after training Mehtab Hossain with the 360 method, he went on to win the award of being the Best Player in India. This was when Hossain was on the verge of being removed from the East Bengal roster because of his poor performances and injury proneness in the previous seasons.
He was also responsible for giving opportunities to goalkeepers like
Abhra Mondal
Abhra Mondal ( bn, অভ্র মন্ডল; born 14 July 1986) is an Indian goalkeeper coach and former footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
East Bengal
Mondal signed for East Bengal FC in 2005 and ever since Mondal has mostly ...
and
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (born 3 February 1992) is an Indian professional association football, footballer who plays as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Indian Super League club Bengaluru FC, Bengaluru and the India national foo ...
. Gurpreet went on to become the first ever Indian to play a competitive match for the first team of a top-division European club and the fifth Indian to play professionally in Europe. He is also the first Indian to play in the
UEFA Europa League
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.
United Sikkim
Ridder's biggest find during his time with United Sikkim was
Sandesh Jhingan
Sandesh Jhingan (born 21 July 1993) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Indian Super League club Bengaluru and the Indian national team.
He won the AIFF emerging player of the year award in 2014 and made ...
. The defender was not even making the bench when De Ridder took over. However, after working in training with him, Jhingan developed drastically. De Ridder also provided Jhingan with a chance to become the first Indian player to go to China and trial for a club in the Chinese First Division Football League. Jhingan is currently a regular starter for the
India National Football Team
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Indian team, which was once cons ...
.
Reitlang FC
At Reitlang FC, De Ridder developed players like Cho Chering Lepcha and
Lalruatthara
Lalruatthara (born 7 January 1995) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for I-League club Inter Kashi.
Club career Early career
Born in Mizoram, Lalruatthara attended trials for the Chandigarh Football Academy in 200 ...
. Ridder trained Lalruatthara with the 360 method, got him a trial in Thailand - BEC Tero Sasana, now known as
Police Tero F.C. when not one person talked or detected him in the Mizoram Premier League. He is now elected as the best youth player of Super league 2018. He made his debut for India on 27 March 2018 against Kyrgyzstan in 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers. In July 2017, he was selected in final India U23 squad which travelled to Qatar to play 2018 AFC U-23 Championship qualification.
Dayu FC
In China, De Ridder worked with a young 18-year-old Chinese player for six months. He trained him everyday with his 360 training method, thus allowing him to sign a pro-contract with Belgian club RSC Anderlecht. De Ridder also initiated the international development of Chinese U9, discovering 8 talented players and bringing them to the best youth football tournament in Belgium.
CD Marino
After discovering a young player from Ghana in China, De Ridder trained him with the 360 method for four months. He then brought him to sign a contract with CD Marino.
Goalkeepers
After developing the likes of Abhra Mondal and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, De Ridder also became the first football coach in India to bring a foreign goalkeeper from South Korea to the I League.
Experience around the world
2018 - African Experience
Senegal - Dakar
De Ridder went to scout some players for CD Marino, develop international relations. He also shared the 360 Method with several local football academies.
Cameroon - Douala
De Ridder visited several local schools and football academies to scout local talents. He also shared his 360 Training Method as well as develop international relations.
2018 - India - Mumbai Experience
Went to develop international relations for CD Marino, share 360 CFT method with several local football academies, share some 360 knowledge with several football local coaches, organised different football event like the first tournament for Goalkeepers in India.
2018 - CD Marino - Spain
International Football Development Manager
Developed International relations for the club, as well as discovered new foreign talent for the club outside the Canary Islands.
Ridder's academies
Ridder had set up two academies of excellence in Belgium (Lions soccer Academy and 360 Foot) which were specialized in the individual development of skills, power and speed as well as goal scoring abilities. He also traveled for 13 years around the world, exchanging knowledge and working with several French, Dutch, Spanish, Ecuadorian, Brazilian, Argentinian and American coaches, youth coordinators and presidents around the world, to be able to put together a successful and creative training methodology. Many players participated for several years in these elite training centres, such as
Faris Haroun (
Blackpool
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),
Arnor Angeli
Arnor Angeli (born 25 February 1991) is a Belgian association football, footballer who plays in Formation (association football), midfield for R.A.E.C. Mons (2015), Renaissance Mons 44.
Early life
Angeli is from Brussels, and his father, a su ...
(
Mons
Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
), Rosario Saporito (Diegem Sport), Fabio Tonini (
FC Brussels
Racing White Daring Molenbeek Brussels F.C., often simply referred to as RWDM Brussels, F.C. Brussels or simply Brussels was a Belgian association football club based in the municipality of Molenbeek in the Brussels Capital-Region. They last pl ...
), and
Bernard Malanda-Adje (
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin.
Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...
). They all came to de Ridder when they had problems in their club to sustain their position in the first eleven and when all were normal and unknown players and they all became international players after receiving De Ridder's 360 CFT training and football philosophy. In India, De Ridder successfully implemented the 360 CFT method on a full professional team with
East Bengal
ur,
, common_name = East Bengal
, status = Province of the Dominion of Pakistan
, p1 = Bengal Presidency
, flag_p1 = Flag of British Bengal.svg
, s1 = East ...
and gave some unknown Indian players a chance to express their talent. He has demonstrated his 360 CFT method at different places around the globe like Planet Football Academy (
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
) and IFA-CFS Soccer Academy (
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
).
Honours
Player
;RWD Molenbeek
*
Belgian Second Division
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(Champion) : 1984-85
;International
*Captain of the Belgian National Youth Team
Managerial
In his years of club management, Ridder has led his clubs to win several titles.
;East Bengal (2005–2006, 2009–2010)
*
Federation Cup (India)
The Federation Cup (also known as Hero Federation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was an annual knockout football competition in Indian football which started in 1977. From its inception, until I-League was started in 1997 (then called NFL), it ...
(Champion):
2009–10
*
Indian Super Cup
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(Champion): 2006
*
National Football League (India)
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(Runners-up) :
2005-06
;United Sikkim FC (2011–2012, 2012–2013)
*
I-League 2nd Division
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(Champion) :
2012
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Individual
*Creator of the 360 CFT Method(Creative Football Training)
*Founder of Lions Soccer Academy and 360 Foot
Other career
Ridder is an art director, photographer, cartoonist, dancer, musician, saxophone player, management professional, writer and a sports journalist.
Art director and designer
Ridder is a highly experienced professional art director. He has worked with several international organizations such as Management Centre Europe and Tenue De Soiree Magazine (
Brussels
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), Metropolitan Life Insurance, Morgan Stanley and AVI (Disney account) (
New York City
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), Bowhaus and IMEDIA (AT&T account) (
New Jersey
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), Telmark International (
London
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) and LEON cultural magazine ''(
Tenerife
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)'' as graphic designer and art director.
Music
![De Ridder Saxophone show at Guwahati Club, India](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/De_Ridder_Saxophone_show_at_Guwahati_Club%2C_India.jpg)
Ridder is a musician and specialist saxophone player. His genre is a cocktail of original scores, music and story-telling with a touch of improvisation. He started in jam sessions with his professional musician friends at Brussels, and debuted on the Indian music scene with his performance at the Guwahati Club, Assam, and showed immense potential.
Media publicity
Ridder is a very popular figure in the city of Kolkata and in the media. He wrote a book in 2006 titled, ''Kolkata by Ridder'', based on the "City of Joy",
Kolkata
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, which was well received by the Kolkatans, especially the football lovers. In India, he worked for the ''Times of India'' and ''Bartaman'' as an expert guest journalist as well as a football expert on a Channel 10 television show and as a cartoonist for the ''Bengal Post'' during the 2010 FIFA World cup.
During the
2018 FIFA World Cup
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he drew some cartoons for India's leading Bengali Newspaper,
Anandabazar Patrika
''Anandabazar Patrika'' (Bengali: আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা, ) is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1 million cop ...
. He also wrote several articles during the tournament as a football expert. He also worked as an expert for the biggest sports newspaper in Dakar, Senegal.
De Ridder has also written forward notice in two football books, written by cartoonist ''Bibek Sengupta''.
He has also directed a pilot film for a series about football and travelling in Mumbai, India.
Management
Ridder had the chance to learn marketing and management skills from a very young age due to the injury which ended his playing career. He followed many high level professional courses like Lateral Thinking for Management by Edward De Bono, In search of Excellence by Tom Peters, Management and Motivation by E. Sulliman, Marketing and Management by Kotler-Dubois and Advanced Direct Marketing, Creative Thinking by R Van Oeck, at reputed institutes such as Management Centre Europe (
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
) and Advanced Direct Marketing – Chamber of Commerce (
Brussels
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). He also exercised his management skills in public relations, press group DH, at the FIFA World Cup, 1994 and with professional organizations as general manager at 360 Foot and the U19 Togo National team's European tour in Belgium.
Chevsa Sports Marketing & Management
Ridder is the co-owner of Chevsa Sports Marketing & Management, a
Kolkata
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based sports marketing and management agency which has a stated mission to discover, develop and promote elite professional sportsmen as well as young talents, primarily in football and also other sports like cricket, boxing and tennis with the help of corporate and related governing bodies and supporting sporting institutions and clubs for the betterment of sports in the country.
Personal
Ridder is popularly known as "Indi" among his fans, friends and colleagues. Ridder is also actively involved with social service. He has helped in raising fund through football and also sponsoring and giving free training to the orphaned and needy children in Africa, Belgium and India. Ridder can speak six languages; English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian fluently, and the others being Portuguese and German.
Ridder is actually referred as "the Tintin of Brussels football". He is presently preparing for an exhibition in Belgium, ''A tribute to Tintin''. De Ridder was born in Brussels, Belgium just like
Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi (; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé (; ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials ''RG'', was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating ''The Adventures of Tintin'', ...
, the creator of
Tintin
Tintin or Tin Tin may refer to:
''The Adventures of Tintin''
* ''The Adventures of Tintin'', a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
** Tintin (character), a fictional character in the series
** ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (film), 2011, ...
.
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1965 births
Living people
Belgian footballers
Belgian football managers
East Bengal Club managers
United Sikkim F.C. managers
Belgian expatriates in India
Expatriate football managers in India
Footballers from Brussels
Association football midfielders