Three players of Anderlecht came in action with their national team yesterday. Joshua Zirkzee keeps on scoring and is now top scorer in the preliminaries of the European Championship U21. Timon Vanhoutte, Naim Van Attenhoven and Kristian Arnstad also came into action. Read more »
Naim Van Attenhoven's debut with the national team is not going unnoticed. Footmercato writes that the 18-year-old Anderlecht goalkeeper has attracted the interest of several clubs from the French Ligue 2.
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For six Anderlecht players, international soccer was on the program yesterday. Five of them celebrated a victory. Only Kristian Arnstad had to be satisfied with a draw. An overview. Read more »
Chris Lokesa and Mario Stroeykens (photo) scored for the young Red Devils. Lokesa did so for the BeGold U19F/U18F in a friendly game during a training camp in Spain. Stroeykens scored for the U19 in the EK qualifier against Azerbaijan. Read more »
Despite the absence of several strikers and the large selection of 29 players, Yari Verschaeren didn't receive an invitation from Roberto Martinez for the Red Devils. Together with three Anderlecht teammates, he can now join the national U21 team. Read more »
The national U19 will be in action next week as part of the qualification round for the European Championship. That will take place from 10 to 16 November in Luxembourg. Wesley Sonck included Anderlecht players Nils de Wilde, Zeno Debast and Mario Stroeykens in his selection.
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The U21 of Anderlecht have qualified for the next round of the Cup of Belgium. Robin Veldman's boys defeated STVV after prolongations. Chris Lokesa scored the winning goal in the 119th minute.
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Anderlecht youngster Simion Michez (photo) is taking part in a training camp organized by the Cameroonian Football Federation for U20 and U23 players this week. The training camp ended with a friendly game against Entente SSG from the French fourth division. Cameroon won 2-0 with Michez scoring one of the goals. Read more »
A satisfied Vincent Kompany after the cup victory over La Louvière. That he chose for his established values and didn't give youngsters a chance, shows how important the Cup is for Anderlecht, but it also caused some questions with the press and supporters. Read more »
The U21 of Anderlecht have booked their sixth league victory in a row. Against Antwerp, it became 0-2. Lucas Stassin and Loic Masscho scored, both on an assist from Adrien Trebel (photo). Read more »
Vincent Kompany counts for the most part on his familiar selection of players for tonight's cup game. Yari Verschaeren will not be there. Het Laatste Nieuws knows that Anderlecht is keeping him on the sidelines as a precaution after he was hit on the knee against Beerschot. Read more »
Only three clubs that are not active in the five biggest leagues deliver more youth players to these leagues than Anderlecht. No less than thirteen players trained by Anderlecht are currently active in a G5-leagues. That's what the CIES Football Observatory calculated. Read more »
Anderlecht will play against RAAL La Louvière in the 1/16th finals of the Cup of Belgium. What can we expect and what do we need to know? We took a closer look at the club and what appears? We can safely call them 'the little Anderlecht'. Read more »
National coach David Penneman has called up Anas Tajaouart, Tristan Degreef (pictured) and Amadou Diallo for three internationals with the Belgian U17 futures. The young Devils leave for Sweden for a tournament. They will play against Sweden on Wednesday and Denmark on Thursday. Read more »
The career of Andy Najar is back on track. The Honduran, who seemed to be written off for soccer at Anderlecht, is currently doing very well at his club DC United. He is a key player and is even a fixed value for the national team again. Read more »
The Brazilian website El Crack Deportivo writes that Anderlecht has set its sights on right-back Marcelo Weigandt of Boca Juniors. Given the tone of the article, we would describe EL Crack Deportiva as a clickbait site, but we'll mention it anyway. Read more »
Lucas Lissens recently dropped out of training with an injury. The youngster had to undergo knee surgery to repair the damage. That surgery is now behind us. Lissens will now have to revalidate for several months. Read more »
A few days after the news that Théo Leoni has undergone surgery, Anderlecht has now also announced what the problem is. The captain of the U21 went under the knife for a problem with the appendix. He will be out for a few weeks. Read more »
Bad luck for Lucas Lissens. The promising central defender injured his knee at training on Friday. Research has now shown that it is serious. Purple-White reports that the defender cannot play for several months. Read more »
Marco Kana is currently barely getting playing minutes in the first team. Vincent Kompany explains what's going on: "There are 15 to 20 youngsters training with the first team and each of them has a development plan consisting of different parts. Compared to the starting eleven, Kana is not ready yet." Read more »
A few months after his departure from Anderlecht, Lukas Nmecha has not forgotten purple and white. On Instagram he regularly posts videos to wish his old club success and in Het Laatste Nieuws this weekend he declared his love. "Usually you have sympathy for your ex-clubs, but Anderlecht is different. I'm a big fan." Read more »
The U21 of Anderlecht will have to do without their captain Theo Leoni for a few weeks. The midfielder was operated on the abdomen, Anderlecht announced. In a video message, coach Robin Veldman and several players encouraged Leoni. Read more »
Sergio Gomez is one of Anderlecht's most eye-catching summer transfers. The Spaniard gave the most assists of the whole Jupiler Pro League so far, and that as a left back. His performances with the Spanish U21 are also impressive.
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The U21 of Robin Veldman resume their competition on October 25 at 19:30 with a game against Antwerp. In anticipation of this, some friendly games are planned. The first one will take place on 16 October against the French team Lille. Anderlecht will then travel to France at 11.30 am where the match will be played behind closed doors at the Domain of Luchin. Read more »
