Van Looy started playing for SK Muggenberg in 1981. The team did better and better over the next few years with the help of the director. “SK Muggenberg was somewhat at a dead end when my good friend Kevin (Janssens, ed.) and I got the idea to ask a few old professional football players from Antwerp if they wanted to come and play with us,” he explains. The newspapaer. Thanks to the input of Rudi Smidts, Tomasz Radzinski and Cisse Severeyns, among others, the team rose in the ranking every year. As icing on the cake, SK Muggenberg has now qualified for the final of the Antwerp Cup for the first time this weekend.
However, the success meant Van Looy’s own downfall with the team. “I’ve always been in the striker, but when Radzinski came, I moved to the bench,” laughs the director. “I used to be fast and they called me the cheetah. Today only the lazy horse. I persevered, because I had long ago resolved not to stop until I was sixty. And now the time has finally come.”