Franky Vandendriessche

Franck "Francky" Vandendriessche (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfrɑŋki vɑndɛnˈdrisə]; born 7 April 1971) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Francky Vandendriessche
Vandendriessche in 2011
Personal information
Full name Franck Vandendriessche
Date of birth (1971-04-07) 7 April 1971
Place of birth Waregem, Belgium
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1979–1990 K.S.V. Waregem
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1998 K.S.V. Waregem 152 (0)
1998–2005 Mouscron 199 (0)
2005–2007 Cercle Brugge 58 (0)
Total 409 (0)
International career
2003 Belgium 1 (0)
Managerial career
2007–2009 Mouscron (goalkeeping coach)
2009 Belgium (goalkeeping coach)
2009–2011 Mons (goalkeeping coach)
2011–2013 K.V. Kortrijk (goalkeeping coach)
2013– Gent (goalkeeping coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Vandendriessche was born in Waregem. Among his former clubs are K.S.V. Waregem and Cercle Brugge.

International career

Vandendriessche played one game with the Belgium national team against Croatia due to the injuries of both Geert De Vlieger and Frédéric Herpoel and Belgium lost 4–0. He was in the team for the 2002 World Cup.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Vandendriessche became goalkeeping coach for his former team Mouscron. But due to financial uncertainty at Mouscron, he decided to move to Mons during the summer break of 2009. Assistant manager Geert Broeckaert would follow him a bit later.

On 10 July 2009, he became goalkeeping coach of the Belgium national team but was sacked on 6 October 2009 for having allegedly given a journalist from the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws details about team selection before it had been officially announced. The Belgian goalkeeper Stijn Stijnen retired from the Belgian football team on the same day in connection with this incident. He was from 2007, the goalkeeping coach at Excelsior Mouscron until June 2009, and a short time later became the goalkeeper coach at Mons. In May 2011, he became goalkeeping coach at K.V. Kortrijk.

Honours

Player

KSV Waregem[1]

Belgium

Individual

References
  1. "Football - K.S.V. Waregem".
  2. FIFA.com. "Belgium honoured with the FIFA Fair Play Award". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. "Palmares Profvoetballer van het Jaar".
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