The Round of 32 in the Belgian Croky Cup brings Club Brugge head-to-head with Patro Eisden. Find out all there is to know on our Cup campaign and on our opponent here! The away game at Patro Eisden comes with a long drive, as Club will be heading for Eastern Limburg to compete in the Cup Round of 32. The teams will be meeting of the third time in the Cup. Early August, the team also sparred with Club Brugge in the run-up to the new season, Cisse Sandra and…
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Club Brugge suffers 2-0 defeat at Gent
Matchday 16 took Blauw-Zwart to the Ghelamco Arena where the hosts opened the scoring via Cuypers after ten minutes play. Just before the half-hour Ngadeu doubled the score. Last Tuesday Club finished the Champions League group stage with a draw at Leverkusen. Coach Carl Hoefkens was content with that performance and didn’t see a reason to tinker too much with his line-up. Just the one change: he sacrificed Lang for Onyedika in order to have more control in midfield. For the home side Torunarigha was among the starters after his…
Read MoreMadrid tries to attract Formula I race, Belgium weight in the opportunity
Madrid hopes to host a Formula 1 race in the future. Enrique Lopez, an adviser to the community of the Spanish capital, has sent a letter to King class boss Stefano Domenicali to express interest. Since 1986, Formula 1 has been based in Barcelona. The Circuit de Catalunya also has a contract until 2026, so a short-term race in Madrid does not seem realistic at the moment. Domenicali has already indicated that there is a lot of interest from other countries and/or cities to organize a race. The maximum number…
Read MoreFrance isn’t in top three FIFA teams anymore, Belgium has the second place
A new FIFA ranking has been published. Belgium remains in 2nd place. On 23 June, FIFA published a new FIFA ranking. Belgium remains in 2nd place. Brazil is 1st and running out. The top 3 is completed by Argentina, which displaces France to 4th place. Spain and the Netherlands are on the rise. Spain was still in 7th place at the end of March. Now they are 6th. The Netherlands rises 2 places to 8th place. ⚽️ Latest FIFA/Coca-Cola Men's World Ranking is out! ?? Brazil stay top ??? Kazakhstan…
Read MoreThe 35-year-old Beizer Wilfried van Moer almost leads Belgium to the European Championship title
June 22, 1980: No one had him on the note. The Belgian national coach conjures the midfielder Wilfried van Moer out of his hat before the European Championship. After more than four years without an international game and as a part-time host, the 35-year-old is playing an outstanding tournament. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bernd Schuster, Michel Platini – the first three footballers in the Ballon d’Or election in 1980 are still familiar to almost every fan today. But the fourth-ranked Wilfried van Moer? Outside of his native Belgium, there are probably only…
Read MoreValuable achievements at the the Thailand Open: Kenges Rakishev is proud about the team
Kazakhstani boxers won 8 medals, three of them golden. The President of the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation Kenges Rakishev highly appreciates the results of the participation of his federation’s sportsmen at the Thailand Open international tournament. “This is one of the first competitions in 2022, where we saw our most talented sportsmen in action. The coaching staff will also make adjustments in some weights, giving boxers the opportunity to perform at different tournaments. There is still a lot of work ahead, the Asian Summer Games are in September. We will prepare…
Read MoreCisse Sandra and Lynnt Audoor sign new contract until 2025
Club Brugge thinks about the future. Cisse Sandra and Lynnt Audoor extend their contract with the Blues until 2025. Sandra (18) made his first appearance in the Belgian first division in December in the home match against Seraing. The attacking midfielder immediately scored and was the first goal scorer in the Jupiler Pro League who was born in the year 2003. He also collected minutes in the Supercup, Croky Cup and Champions League match at PSG. Audoor (18) is an Academy player. The son of former Club Brugge player Yves…
Read MoreCan Union become football champions? “First sleep a lot, eat well and recover”
n football, action in the top flight has come to a close for this year. Union are the proud leaders, while Beerschot are in dire straits with 21 of the 34 days of play of the normal competition behind us. The top flight, dubbed the Jupiler Pro League, resumes on 14 January. Beerschot were downed 0-7 at home by in-form Anderlecht yesterday. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing that no spcectators were allowed at the Kiel, Beerschot’s home ground in Antwerp, some said after the match. Everything that can go…
Read MoreFootball: the growing interest of investment funds
Investment funds in control of football clubs as varied as AC Milan, Burnley, Toulouse and Caen. What is their interest and how has financing football changed over the years? “Investment funds are only there for business. They have no business [being involved] in football!” Last April, these comments from Christophe Dugarry, part of the French team that won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship two years, made the pages of sports daily L’Équipe. And they sparked a lot of debate. The former striker, who has become one…
Read MoreBelgian Sport bar launches bacon beer
Flavoured beers have been increasingly in style for a long time, but one Belgian burger bar is aiming to turn heads with its soon to be released bacon Beer. To celebrate the reopening of indoor dining the Huggy’s Bar worked in partnership with Brasserie C – a brasserie in the centre of Liege – to create the meaty draft. “Not all of our burgers have bacon, but when we add a few slices, it immediately becomes something else,” Thomas Mémurlin, CEO of Huggy’s Bar told the press. “So we thought…
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