,,After eight years in the Netherlands, I really wanted to go on a foreign adventure and also wanted to stay close to my three children. I had contact with a number of clubs, but immediately had a good feeling here,” said Buijs, who worked for the amateurs of Kozak Boys before his period in Groningen.
KV Mechelen finished seventh in the regular competition last season and in the play-offs the club grabbed next to European football.
KV Mechelen has a history with Dutch trainers. In the eighties Aad de Mos worked there and later, among others, Barry Hulshoff and André Wetzel. De Mos won the European Cup II with the club in 1988.
Buijs succeeds Wouter Vrancken in Mechelen.