Anderlecht today announced the arrival of Marink Reedijk as the new coach of the RSCA Futures. "It is a wonderful challenge to prepare the club's young talents in a competitive environment. And to hopefully eventually see them grow into the first team," the Dutchman said. Read more »
Zeno Debast is ready for the European Championship for U23. The Anderlecht defender played the full match with the Belgian U23 against Israel tonight. The young Devils won 0-2. Read more »
A new day, a new name, this time that of 21-year-old Argentine Santiago Hezze, currently captain at Huracan. He also already has one selection at the Argentine U23 to his name. A cheap option Hezze is not. Read more »
Although Marink Reedijk has not yet been officially appointed by RSC Anderlecht as coach of the RSCA Futures, the organisational chart for the coaches of the Elite teams seems to be taking shape. Only René Peeters retains his category for next season, Roel Clement continues his mission in the A-team and Jeroen Chantrain alternates between the U13 and U14 teams. Read more »
Bart Verbruggen played the second half of the friendly match between Netherlands U21 and Japan. The final score was 0-0. The match served as preparation for the Euro U21. Read more »
A number of Anderlecht's U23 players are currently training with the A-squad: Ilay Camara (pictured), Tristan Degreef, Ismael Baouf, Amadou Diallo, Lucas Monticelli, Loïc Masscho, Amando Lapage and Alonzo Engwanda-Ongena are starting their preparation. Read more »
Racing Genk is looking for an experienced goalkeeper and has ended up with Hendrik Van Crombrugge. The Limburgers must start their European campaign as early as the end of July. There have already been talks at club level but nothing concrete. Read more »
Cercle Brugge have announced the arrival of Nils De Wilde. The Anderlecht youth product signed a contract for three seasons, with an option for a fourth. "Once you have tasted professional football, you want more. I hope to make my debut in 1A at Cercle," he said on the club's website. Read more »
Yannick Kindermans, the son of Jean, will coach Anderlecht's U16 next season. Last season he was coaching the U13. With that team, he won the national title. Read more »
David Hubert stops playing football. The 35-year-old midfielder, last season's experienced pawn at the RSCA Futures, does remain on board with Anderlecht. La Dernière Heure knows he will become assistant coach at the U18 and U23 sides. Read more »
The RSC Anderlecht Futures have a new coach, 30-year-old Dutchman Marink Reedijk who comes over from Vitesse where he was assistant. Reedijk gained his youth training experience at Ajax and West Brom. Read more »
RSC Anderlecht have found a new goalkeeping coach after all, 30-year-old German Justin Merz. He comes over from TSG Hoffenheim, where he trained the goalkeepers of the second team. In the past, he was goalkeeper coordinator at Union Berlin's youth academy. Read more »
Bart Verbruggen is currently with the Netherlands U21, which will take on our young Devils on 21 June. The transfer rumours surrounding Verbruggen are going strong, but the goalkeeper does not want to be distracted by that at the moment. Read more »
Lior Refaelov was not planning to leave Belgium immediately, he recently built a new house and son Adrian plays with Antwerp's youth team. His contract with RSC Anderlecht was not renewed and there were no other offers from Belgium, but there were offers from his homeland Israel. Read more »
Anderlecht want to strengthen itself with defender Louis Patris from OH Leuven. According to Het Nieuwsblad, purple-white made a concrete offer, but was rejected by the Leuven side. Patris is a right-back who will soon be active with the Belgian U21 at the European Championships. Read more »
Zeno Debast and Mario Stroeykens opened a football square in Anderlecht on Wednesday evening, together with rapper Damso. Debast looked back on the past period, one without play-offs, and looks forward to the preparations with hunger. Read more »
Anderlecht are said to have set their sights on Ezechiel Banzuzi, an 18-year-old central midfielder who broke through at NAC in second division this season, according to La Dernière Heure. Banzuzi is similar to Amadou Onana in terms of playing style and has also attracted interest from some clubs in Italy. Read more »
Jan Vertonghen is allowed to report for the Red Devils in Tubize on Monday. The defender is part of national coach Domenico Tedesco's 24-man squad for the international matches against Austria and Estonia. "Vertonghen worked out every day in the gym in Tubize," Tedesco said Read more »
In its search for a new right-back, Anderlecht has ended up with Heerenveen's Milan van Ewijk. That is what Voetbal International knows. Purple White are said to have already contacted Heerenveen to gather information, but did not yet make an official offer. Read more »
Jacky Mathijssen, national coach of the Belgian U21, has just announced his preliminary selection for the European U21 Championship. Zeno Debast is Anderlecht's only player. Killian Sardella was in the pre selection, but thus seems to have to stay at home. Read more »
Nilson Angulo's World Cup adventure is over. The Ecuadorian U20 lost 2-3 to South Korea in the World Cup eighth finals last night. Angulo started in the starting line-up, but was substituted at half-time. Read more »
According to Het Nieuwsblad, Nils De Wilde does not have to complain about a lack of interest. The newspaper writes that Standard, Westerlo and Dutch Excelsior have already inquired about his services. Standard does see him as a reinforcement for the U23 in 1B. Read more »
RSC Anderlecht are at the top of the youth academies at the Pro League. Purple and White is at number 1 with 458, points, followed by Club Brugge with 454 points and Racing Genk 414 points. Read more »
Tuesday night Anderlecht's Fanboard came together. From the club, Jesper Fredberg, among others, was present. He was asked about the situation regarding Jean Kindermans. "We have a good dialogue," Fredberg replied. "We hope to bring clarity soon." Read more »
According to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, Anderlecht want to acquire 20-year-old Etienne Camara from Huddersfield. Camara is a defensive midfielder who played 20 games last season, 13 of them he was in the starting eleven, for Huddersfield in the English second division. Read more »
Kristian Arnstad is not part of Norway's selection for the European Championship U23 in June. The 19-year-old midfielder played three qualifying matches in June last year and in March he was allowed to fill in for 15 minutes during a practice game against the Netherlands. Read more »
Majeed Ashimeru and Islam Slimani have both been called up for June's international games. Ashimeru will take on Madagascar with Ghana. Slimani and Algeria will visit Uganda. Both duels will take place on Sunday, June 18. Read more »
Anderlecht is looking for reinforcements for next season and, in order to do so, would now set its sights on Khaled Razak, a 17-year-old player from Willem II. Read more »
