Boxer Ismaïl Abdoul about deceased trainer and second father Rony Van Eesvelde: “He did the work of a hundred social assistants” | Domestic

Ghent boxing trainer Rony Van Eesvelde (75) died on Saturday evening during the boxing gala in Koksijde from a heart vein rupture, in the place where he preferred to stand: in the corner of the ring. Van Eesvelde experienced his greatest successes alongside Ismaïl Abdoul, perhaps the most famous Belgian boxer of the past thirty years. “You can’t imagine how much love that man gave to me and dozens of other boys.”