Eric Gerets

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Personal information
Eric Gerets
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Full name	Eric Gerets
Date of birth	May 15, 1954 (age 52)
Place of birth	Rekem, Belgium
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Galatasaray SK
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
19??-19?? 1971-1983 1983-1984 1984-1985 1985-1992	Rekem Standard de Liège AC Milan MVV Maastricht PSV Eindhoven	? (?) 321 (27) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?)
Teams managed
1992-1994 1994-1997 1997-1999 1999-2002 2002-2004 2004-2005 2005-present	Club Liège Lierse SK Club Brugge PSV Eindhoven 1. FC Kaiserslautern VfL Wolfsburg Galatasaray SK
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Eric Gerets (born May 15, 1954 in Rekem, Belgium) was a successful Belgian football defender and is now the coach of Turkish team Galatasaray SK of Istanbul.

As a defender, he played for Rekem, Standard de Liège, AC Milan, MVV Maastricht and PSV Eindhoven, winning among others the 1987-88 European Cup, two Belgian championships and six Dutch championships. He is with 86 appearances the second most capped player for the Belgium national football team, scoring twice.

As a manager, he worked successively for Lierse SK, Club Brugge, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and VfL Wolfsburg before joining the Turkish side at the end of the 2004-2005 season. In the season 1996-1997 he won the Belgian championships with Lierse, reprising the feat in the season 1998-1999 with Club Brugge. He won the Dutch championships twice (seasons 1999-2000 and 2000-2001) with PSV Eindhoven. In the season 2005-2006, he won the Turkish Premier Super League with Galatasaray SK.

Preceded by Erwin Vandenbergh	Belgian Golden Shoe 1982	Succeeded by Franky Vercauteren
Preceded by Hugo Broos	Club Brugge Coach 1997-1999	Succeeded by René Verheyen
Preceded by Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray Coach 2005-present	Succeeded by incumbent

	Belgium squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup
1 Pfaff \| 2 Gerets \| 3 L. Millecamps \| 4 Meeuws \| 5 Renquin \| 6 Vercauteren \| 7 Vandereycken \| 8 Van Moer \| 9 Vandenbergh \| 10 Coeck \| 11 Ceulemans \| 12 Custers \| 13 Van Der Elst \| 14 Baecke \| 15 De Schrijver \| 16 Plessers \| 17 Verheyen \| 18 Mommens \| 19 M. Millecamps \| 20 Vandersmissen \| 21 Czerniatynski \| 22 Munaron \| Coach: Thys

	Belgium squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 Pfaff \| 2 Gerets \| 3 F. Van Der Elst \| 4 De Wolf \| 5 Renquin \| 6 Vercauteren \| 7 Vandereycken \| 8 Scifo \| 9 Vandenbergh \| 10 Desmet \| 11 Ceulemans \| 12 Munaron \| 13 Grün \| 14 Clijsters \| 15 L. Van Der Elst \| 16 Claesen \| 17 Mommens \| 18 Veyt \| 19 Broos \| 20 Bodart \| 21 Demol \| 22 Vervoort \| Coach: Thys

	Belgium squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Preud'homme \| 2 Gerets \| 3 Albert \| 4 Clijsters \| 5 Versavel \| 6 Emmers \| 7 Demol \| 8 Van Der Elst \| 9 Degryse \| 10 Scifo \| 11 Ceulemans \| 12 Bodart \| 13 Grün \| 14 Claesen \| 15 De Sart \| 16 De Wolf \| 17 Plovie \| 18 Staelens \| 19 Van Der Linden \| 20 De Wilde \| 21 Wilmots \| 22 Vervoort \| Coach: Thys