It must be said that his adventure at RWDM was crowned with a championship title in D1B. “What I experienced in Molenbeek will be one of the great moments of my professional career. Because we will never forget what we experienced there. What we achieved at the time was simply incredible with everything that happened around the group and the staff Everything we experienced together united us and even if today everyone will tell you that they feel good where they are currently. , everyone will tell you that this will never be like what he experienced in Molenbeek The group and the staff were so united, that we were able to achieve miracles. Even when it became complicated internally, we stuck together and we. We all moved forward in the same boat. It was a great sporting adventure because there was the title at the end, but above all it was an exceptional human adventure, so much so that players and members of the staff still see each other regularly. which has become extremely rare in Football current professional.”
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After this great adventure in Molenbeek, Michaël Marcou took over the management of Beerschot. A more complicated passage. “In my previous roles, I got up every morning to live my passion for football. At Beerschot, I got up to go to work. The notion of pleasure was no longer present, despite a second title in the space of ten months for my share.”
He has rediscovered this pleasure in recent weeks at the RAAL, also in a team manager role. “It was important for me to find something that suited me more and I think I found it with the RAAL project. A motivating project, one of the most interesting or reliable in the country currently, in a club which has quality infrastructure, innovative in its design and its ideas. It's a real chance for me to have been able to integrate it.”
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Especially since this role of team manager, Michaël Marcou loves it. “Football has always been my passion and it is a real chance that it is my profession. As I am neither a coach nor a player, I have a different approach, and the chance to work with all the people who pass through the club. I like to make this link between the sports center and the administrative center, two totally opposite worlds which do not always talk enough. My role allows everyone to know what is happening on the other side of the building. “
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Without forgetting that of the players' confidant. “I'm not 18 anymore but I'm not 60 either. I'm a father, including a son who will be 18, which allows me to understand the expectations of each generation in the locker room. I know when I should speak to them if necessary, how to speak to them, how to listen to them. Having this role of confidant, for players who feel more comfortable going through me than directly through the coach, that suits me well. Without forgetting the organizational aspect that goes with it. a job that I see above all as a passion.”
