.jpg) Gerets in 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Eric Maria Gerets[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rekem, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right back | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1971 | AA Rekem | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1971–1983 | Standard Liège | 318 | (23) | |||||||||||
| 1983–1984 | Milan | 13 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1984–1985 | MVV | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1985–1992 | PSV | 200 | (8) | |||||||||||
| Total | 543 | (32) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1991 | Belgium | 86 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | RFC Liège | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Lierse | |||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Club Brugge | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | PSV | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | |||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | VfL Wolfsburg | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Galatasaray | |||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Marseille | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Al-Hilal | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Morocco | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Lekhwiya | |||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Al Jazira | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Eric Maria Gerets[2] (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːrɪk ˈxeːrəts];[a] born 18 May 1954) is a Belgian football manager and former player who played as a right back.
He started his playing career as an amateur for his local team AA Rekem, before achieving success with Standard Liège and PSV. Nicknamed "The Lion (of Flanders)", Gerets was regarded as one of the top right backs in Europe at his peak and is considered one of the greatest players in Belgian football history. He is famous for having captained PSV to their first and only European Cup win in 1988.
As a coach, Gerets is best known for his advocacy of systems thinking. He is one of six managers – along with José Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Giovanni Trapattoni, Tomislav Ivić and Ernst Happel – to have won top domestic league championships in at least four countries.
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