The arrival of the former strong man of FC Bruges to a key position within the Federation, despite his sulphurous past, raises questions.
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Deputy head of the Sports division and head of the football unit
By Frédéric LarsimontPublished on 11/11/2024 at 6:16 p.m.
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Sauf improbable turnaround, according to the expression used by football jargon to protect oneself from a rake from information that can sometimes be capricious, Vincent Mannaert will become this Tuesday the new national technical director of the men’s teams of the Belgian Union. Beyond the controversy that his very gendered restriction of functions will inevitably arouse in the context of the inclusion of women’s football at the heart of the pyramidal structure of the Fed’s development programs, the identity of Franky Vercauteren’s successor cannot obviously cannot leave you indifferent.
It is therefore impossible not to note the uneasiness caused by the multiplication of these cases, each more thorny than the other at the ethical level.
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