Eric Van Meir

Eric van Meir
Personal information

Full name	Eric van Meir
Date of birth	(1968-02-28) 28 February 1968
Place of birth	Deurne, Belgium
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1991	Berchem	124	(9)
1991–1996	Charleroi	115	(14)
1996–2001	Lierse	145	(57)
2001–2003	Standard Liège	35	(2)
National team
1993–2002	Belgium	34	(1)
Teams managed
2003–2010	Lierse (assistant)
2010–2011	Lierse
2011	Turnhout
2013	Lierse (assistant)
2013	Lierse
2014	Berchem
2014–2015	Lierse (assistant)
2015–	Lierse
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Eric van Meir (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛrɪk fɑn ˈmɛiər];^[1] born 28 February 1968) is a former Belgian football defender, and current head coach of Lierse playing in the Belgian First Division B. His former clubs include Lierse, Charleroi and Standard Liège. Van Meir also played for Belgium and was in the squad for the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cups and also for the Euro 2000 but played only a few matches.

Eric van Meir won the Belgian First Division Title with Lierse in 1997, and the Belgian Cup in 1999, also with Lierse. In 1997, he scored 17 goals and won 2nd place in the Belgian Golden Shoe award.

Club football

Van Meir played in his career for Hoboken SK, Berchem Sport, Sporting Charleroi, Lierse SK and Standard Liege, enjoying the most successful spell in his career at Lierse, winning the Belgian League in 1997, the Belgian Cup in 1999 and the Belgian Supercup in 1997 and 1999. He also finished second in 1997 in the Golden Boot voting behind Pär Zetterberg.

He also played several times in European club football, including the Champions League in season 1997-98.

Meir scored exceptionally high for a defender. He was in top scorer for his club in 1997, 1998 and 2000.

At the 100-year anniversary of Lierse in 2006, Eric Van Meir was elected by supporters as a player in the "Lierse team of the century".

International football

Eric Van Meir played for the Belgium national football team for almost ten years. He attended three World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002) and one European Championship (2000), but each time he only played a few matches. In total he won 35 caps for the national team.

Coaching

Following his retirement as a player in 2003, Van Meir was appointed an assistant coach at Lierse SK. Following the dismissal of Aimé Anthuenis in September 2010 in the club's first season back in the Belgian First Division, Van Meir took over as head coach of the club, assisted by Chris Janssens, but was replaced in the beginning of 2011 by Trond Sollied.

Honours

Lierse SK

Sporting Charleroi

Belgian Cup: 1993 runner-up

As an assistant coach -

2009-2010: Belgian Second Division with Lierse SK

References

↑ In isolation, van is pronounced [vɑn].

External links

Profile at weltfusball

Belgium squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup

1 Preud'homme 2 Medved 3 Borkelmans 4 Albert 5 Smidts 6 Staelens 7 Van der Elst 8 Nilis 9 Degryse 10 Scifo 11 Czerniatynski 12 De Wilde 13 Grün (c) 14 De Wolf 15 Emmers 16 Boffin 17 Weber 18 Wilmots 19 Van Meir 20 Verlinden 21 Van Der Heyden 22 Renier Coach: Van Himst

Belgium squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup

1 De Wilde 2 Crasson 3 Staelens 4 Vidović 5 Borkelmans 6 Van der Elst 7 Wilmots 8 Oliveira 9 M. Mpenza 10 Nilis 11 Van Kerckhoven 12 Vande Walle 13 Verlinden 14 Scifo (c) 15 Clement 16 De Boeck 17 Verstraeten 18 Verheyen 19 Van Meir 20 E. Mpenza 21 Boffin 22 Deflandre Coach: Leekens

Belgium squad – UEFA Euro 2000

1 De Wilde 2 Deflandre 3 Valgaeren 4 Staelens (c) 5 Clement 6 Vanderhaeghe 7 Wilmots 8 Goor 9 E. Mpenza 10 Strupar 11 Verheyen 12 De Vlieger 13 Herpoel 14 Walem 15 Peeters 16 Nilis 17 Léonard 18 Van Kerckhoven 19 Van Meir 20 De Bilde 21 M. Mpenza 22 Hendrikx Coach: Waseige

Belgium squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup

1 De Vlieger 2 Deflandre 3 De Boeck 4 Van Meir 5 Van Kerckhoven 6 Simons 7 Wilmots (c) 8 Goor 9 Sonck 10 Walem 11 Verheyen 12 Van Der Heyden 13 Vandendriessche 14 Vermant 15 Peeters 16 Van Buyten 17 Englebert 18 Vanderhaeghe 19 Thijs 20 Strupar 21 Boffin 22 Mpenza 23 Herpoel Coach: Waseige

Lierse S.K. – managers

Grumeau (1920–30)
Turnhauer (1930–36)
Mály (1936–39)
De Preter (1939–44)
Kiebooms (1944–46)
Berry (1946–48)
Kiebooms (1948–49)
D'Hollander (1949–53)
Tarkany (1953–55)
D'Hollander (1955–61)
De Vos (1961)
De Graaf (1961–62)
Meert (1962–63)
Van den Bergh (1963–70)
Spurgeon (1970)
Willems (1970–71)
De Munck (1971)
Baeten (1971–72)
Bedl (1972–73)
Willems (1973)
Baeten (1973–74)
Croon (1974–75)
Bedl (1975–77)
Van den Bergh (1977–79)
Baeten (1979)
Künnecke (1979–81)
Bedl (1981–82)
Croon (1982–83)
Baeten (1983–84)
Boskamp (1984–87)
Vets (1987)
Meeuws (1987–88)
Davidovic (1988–89)
Hulshoff (1989–91)
Helleputte (1991–94)
Gerets (1994–97)
Daerden (1997–98)
Braeckmans (1998–99)
Meeuws (1999–2001)
Van Acker (2001–02)
Ferrera (2002–04)
Put (2004–05)
Trost (2005–06)
Rekdal (2006–07)
Helleputte (2007–10)
Anthuenis (2010)
Van Meir (2010–11)
Sollied (2011)
Janssens (2011–12)
Ramzy (2012–13)
Van Meir (2013)
Menzo (2013–14)
Stojanovič (2014–15)
Helleputte (2015)
Guillou (2015)
Zerdouk (2015)
Van Meir (2015–)

Belgian First Division B managers

Brouard (Tubize) De Decker (Antwerp) Ferrera (OH Leuven) Grosjean (Union SG) Mercier (Roeselare) Riga (Cercle Brugge) Van Imschoot (Lommel United) Van Meir (Lierse)

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