Glen De Boeck (; born 22 August 1971) is a Belgian football manager and former player who most recently managed Lokeren in the Belgian First Division B. During his career he played as

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, mostly on the books of Anderlecht.

Club career

De Boeck was born in Boom. In the summer of 1995, he moved from KV Mechelen to Anderlecht. In the late 1990s, he was criticized by pundits, who claimed he was not good enough for Anderlecht. He eventually increased his technical performances to become one of the best defenders in The Jupiler Pro League in the early 2000s. In February 2005, De Boeck decided to end his career due to a heavy knee injury.

International career

De Boeck made his international debut with

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on 6 October 1993, against

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(a friendly), going on to represent his country at two

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, with three appearances combined.

Coaching career

De Boeck was directly snapped up by his last club Anderlecht to become an assistant manager, together with Daniel Renders. On 23 April 2007, it was revealed that De Boeck would become manager of first division side

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at the end of the 2006–07 season. He succeeded

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, who had already chosen to leave for Germinal Beerschot. On 1 February 2008, the board of directors at Cercle declared De Boeck had signed a new contract until 2011, as he also became the football section's technical director, being made responsible for the further development of the football team. In March 2009, De Boeck denied

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in signing him as their new coach. Instead he choose to stay with his current club

. He left Cercle in June 2010 and was named the manager of Germinal Beerschot who were looking for a successor to Jos Daerden who left to become an assistant coach at Dutch club Twente. On 30 November 2010, after continuous bad results and disagreements on the management board, he was fired as coach from Germinal Beerschot. At the start of the 2011–12 season De Boeck was appointed as the new manager of

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, but halfway through the season on 6 December 2011, following a 7–0 defeat to Heracles Almelo, he resigned as manager of VVV-Venlo. In November 2012 he signed for

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, but was released one year later.

Honours

Player

Anderlecht *

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: 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04 *

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: runners-up 1996–97 *

Belgian Super Cup The Belgian Super Cup ( nl, Belgische Supercup, ; french: Supercoupe de Belgique; german: Belgischer Fußball-Super Cup), ''Pro League Supercup'', is a Belgian club competition played as a single match between the Belgian First Division A champio ...

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, 2001 *

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: 2000 * Belgian Sports Team of the Year: 2000 *

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: 2000, 2001 Belgium * FIFA Fair Play Trophy:

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Manager

Cercle Brugge *

: runners-up 2009–10

References

External links

Cercle Brugge profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Boeck, Glen Living people 1971 births Belgian footballers Association football central defenders Belgium international footballers 1998 FIFA World Cup players 2002 FIFA World Cup players Belgian First Division A players R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.V. Mechelen players Belgian football managers Cercle Brugge K.S.V. managers Beerschot A.C. managers VVV-Venlo managers K.V. Kortrijk managers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen managers People from Boom, Belgium Footballers from Antwerp Province Belgian expatriate football managers Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands