I'd be interested in participating as long as you guys don't laugh when I take Thomas Buffel with my number one pick . But seriously, I'll join if you guys need an extra person, but my knowledge of Belgian players is very limited and I'd need plenty of help from the internet.
How are you dealing with the loss of the caje? Unbelievable to see Franky Van der Elst almost crying on tv... But as they say business and friendship don't mix. Lets see if you guys can secure that 3rd place
17. Michel De Wolf A great attacking defender. I liked the way he went forward. He was born on January 19 1958, he played at three World Cups and at Euro 84. He played two matches at Mexico 86, four at Italia 90 and four at USA 94, scoring from a long range effort against South Korea at Italia 90. Some of his former clubs include Gent, Kortrijk and Anderlecht. 18. Marc Degryse Here's a link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Degryse A personal favorite of mine. I really liked his goal against South Korea at Italia 90 where he lobbed the Korean keeper from distance.
18. Frank Vercauteren Frank Vercauteren was born on 28 October 1956 in Brussels, Belgium. He is know as "Franky" or "The Small Prince." He was a left-sided midfielder who made his name at Anderlecht in the 1970s and 80s, making his Anderlecht debut against Mechelen in 1975. He played for the Brussels team for 12 seasons, scoring 92 goals in 368 matches. Vercauteren played in Anderlecht's 1983 UEFA Cup win as well as the wins in the 1976 and 1978 Cup Winners' Cup Finals. In 1983, he won the Player of the Year award in Belgium. He also played for Nantes in France from 1987-90 and he finished his career in 1993 with RWD Molenbeek. In two of those seasons with Nantes, he would end up with the most goal assists. For Belgium, he won 63 caps and scored nine goals. Franky made his debut for Belgium in a 3-0 loss to Northern Ireland on 16 November 1977. He played at Espana 82 and Mexico 86 as well as Euro 84. At Euro 84, he scored in the 38th minute of the Belgium vs Denmark match in which the Belgians were winning 2-0 after Le petit prince's goal but the Danes still won 3-2. At Espana 82, he created the assist for Erwin Van Den Burgh's goal against Argentina, a 1-0 win to Belgium. At Mexico 86, he scored a great goal against Paraguay, crossed the ball to Enzo Scifo for the first goal in Belgium's 4-3 win against the Soviets and assisted in Jan Ceulemans' goal against Spain in the quarter-finals. An important player from Belgium's glory period. http://www.uefa.com/footballEurope/Club=50074/coach.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franky_Vercauteren www.planetworldcup.com
19. Erwin Vandenbergh (he was part of the great NT of the 80's, but I hope that Kevin surpass him) Erwin Vandenbergh (born January 26, 1959) was a legendary Belgian football striker. Between 1979 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division, with three different clubs (the first three with Lierse S.K., the following two with R.S.C. Anderlecht, and the last one with K.A.A. Gent). In 1979 he was European topscorer with 39 goals out of 34 games. As a Belgian national team regular VdB scored a memorable victory goal against Argentina in the opening game of the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Vandenbergh also played for the French club Lille OSC with his Belgian national team partner Filip Desmet under the management of another fellow Belgian Georges Heylens. His son, Kevin Vandenbergh, has also become a football striker and he currently plays for K.R.C. Genk. Wiki-bible
I can't believe you took these two naturalized players, the only succes on those cases was Ruben Oliveira, Joske weber and strupar both did nothing for Belgium.
HI is it possible to nominee players from long time ago too (should be correct if it is a "all time" list ...) ? i will not speak for other teams but for R. Union Saint-Gilloise some names shall be : - Edgard "poupoule" Poelmans and Joseph "Jack" Romdenne from the team before WWI - Emile Hanse (Rode duivels captain at Olympic 1920) and Robert Coppee from the team of the roaring 20' - François "Sotje" Vanden Eynden and the great Jules Pappaert captain of the invincible team of the 30', remeber as "Union 60" - Paul Vandenbergh, top class player of the 50' and 60', who played for Anderlecht and Standard too, (for the Union's supporters that have seen him play, the best Unionist after WWII 'till nowadays) apache
1 Enzo Scifo : Belgian Maradonna 2 Ceulemans 3 Wilmots : Great striker 4 Van der Linden 5 George Grun
You're basically picking players from the last 20 years. Scifo is number one in my book but lots of people would have Van Himst in the Top Five even Top Two.