Aimé Anthuenis

Aimé Anthuenis

Personal information
Date of birth	(1943-12-21) 21 December 1943
Place of birth	Lokeren, Belgium
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Lierse (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1955-1970	Racing Lokeren
1970-1974	Lokeren	41	(2)
	FC Eeklo
	KV Ertvelde
Managerial career
1985-1987	Lokeren
1987-1988	Charleroi
1988-1993	Lokeren
1993-1994	Germinal Ekeren
1995-1996	Waregem
1996-1999	Genk
1999-2002	Anderlecht
2002-2005	Belgium
2006	Lokeren
2008-2009	Germinal Beerschot
2010	Lierse
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aimé Anthuenis (born 21 December 1943) is a former Belgian footballer and ex-coach of the Belgium national football team.

Club career

Antheunis played for local sides Racing Lokeren and KSC Lokeren as well as for FC Eeklo and KV Ertvelde.

Coaching career

The Lokeren-born player and manager used to coach among others Genk and Anderlecht with whom he won three Belgian championships in a row from 1999 until 2001 (the first with Genk, the following two with Anderlecht), and was also voted Jupiler League Coach of the Year those years. At Anderlecht, his team played its best UEFA Champions League season since the appearance of a group stage by winning matches against Real Madrid, Manchester United, Lazio Roma, PSV Eindhoven, and Dynamo Kiev. He was the national team coach of Belgium from July 2002 but his contract, running to July 2006 was not renewed after the team failed to qualify for Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup. On 1 January 2006, Anthuenis took up the post of manager of KSC Lokeren. It was his third spell managing the club. On 28 February 2006, he resigned as Lokeren boss and retired from football on health grounds, having been admitted to hospital with cardiac-related chest pains the previous week.

On 21 February 2010 EXQI League club Lierse hired the former K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot coach to replace Herman Helleputte who became the club's technical director.

External links

• Profile and stats - Lokeren